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Speaker 1: welcome back to TV Reload. I want to thank you
Speaker 1: for clicking and downloading on today's episode with Charlotte and Maddie,
Speaker 1: who have swooped in to save the day on Channel
Speaker 1: nine's The Block. After Jesse and Page exited the show
Speaker 1: due to some mental health issues, the New South Wales
Speaker 1: Sisters were called in to replace House one with only
Speaker 1: a day's notice. Can you imagine the girls have been
Speaker 1: shocked with the pressure of the show and how little
Speaker 1: the others have really welcomed them to Philip Island. But hey,
Speaker 1: they are still doing their best at this stage and
Speaker 1: it's really anyone's game on who wins At auction. I
Speaker 1: will ask about the casting process, how far along they
Speaker 1: were originally, who they told before leaving, and what jobs
Speaker 1: they had turned down to relocate to Philip Island. You
Speaker 1: will get to hear us unpack their relationship with Jesse
Speaker 1: and Page and if they've actually met in real life,
Speaker 1: as well as what changes producers allowed them to make.
Speaker 1: You will hear about the relationship with Kylie and what
Speaker 1: produces ask them to keep as a secret, we will
Speaker 1: even get to find out about them being the youngest
Speaker 1: blockheads and if they think that this will now inspire
Speaker 1: younger people to apply for the show. There's actually so
Speaker 1: much to unpack, with some fantastic secrets along the way.
Speaker 1: So guys, sit back and relax as we unpack the
Speaker 1: wonderful world of the Block which is now on Channel nine. Hi, girls,
Speaker 1: how are you both good?
Speaker 2: How are you here?
Speaker 1: I'm good. I just feel excited for the two of you,
Speaker 1: the youngest contestants to have ever been picked to do
Speaker 1: the show. Do you think that maybe you've paved the
Speaker 1: way for more young people to get picked to be
Speaker 1: on the block.
Speaker 2: Gosh, I guess I haven't really thought of it like
Speaker 2: that before, but I hope so.
Speaker 1: And like maybe it's changed people's perception of, you know,
Speaker 1: what age you should be to go on this show,
Speaker 1: because so far, you guys have arrived late and you're
Speaker 1: still doing very well. So anyone who's ages to whatever
Speaker 1: that word is, they probably need to shut them mouth.
Speaker 3: I think it just proves that, like you can't judge
Speaker 3: the book by its cover, And of course there's young
Speaker 3: people that maybe might not be as hard working or
Speaker 3: haven't had, you know, life experience and stuff. But at
Speaker 3: the same time, there are a lot of young people
Speaker 3: that work really hard and would be amazing candidates.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people were watching it
Speaker 1: now thinking well, I want to be eligible for that
Speaker 1: kind of cash. Yeah, for sure, you were late to
Speaker 1: the party, and if you guys know when to thing
Speaker 1: about reality TV, you would know that it's a bad idea.
Speaker 1: It's a bad idea to arrive late because of an
Speaker 1: established clique. How do you feel about arriving six weeks
Speaker 1: into it?
Speaker 2: I think we were a little bit naive coming in.
Speaker 3: We just kind of assumed that people would take us
Speaker 3: under their wing, would be kind, would you know, show
Speaker 3: us the ropes embrace.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think we just thought, you know, we're young, and
Speaker 2: they know what it's like to be in this position.
Speaker 2: For surely they'll support us.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that obviously wasn't really our experience, which was
Speaker 3: really sad but a bit disappointing. But I guess we
Speaker 3: just had to stick together and do our best despite it.
Speaker 1: You know, being late is really hard on reality shows.
Speaker 1: It's like turning up to high school midyear with the
Speaker 1: wrong school uniform.
Speaker 2: Julie yeah.
Speaker 3: We literally felt like we were the new kids at
Speaker 3: school for sure.
Speaker 1: When you're even a day late. I think in reality
Speaker 1: TV this is my it's like if you if you
Speaker 1: arrive at day late, it's like a week late. If
Speaker 1: you arrive a month late, it's basically like a whole year.
Speaker 1: So that sort of equation means that you guys sort
Speaker 1: of turned up a year into filming? Does that mean
Speaker 1: five years? It turns out I can't speak and I'm
Speaker 1: bad at maths.
Speaker 2: Not an ideal situation.
Speaker 1: How did you get the call to do this show?
Speaker 1: Like as in who made that phone call to you?
Speaker 1: When you were asked to come in and replace Jesse
Speaker 1: and Page.
Speaker 3: We got the call from the creator of the show,
Speaker 3: Julian and a producer actually, and we were it was
Speaker 3: Easter Monday and we're just doing our thing. I think
Speaker 3: I was cooking a hot cross fun and Charlotte was
Speaker 3: cleaning and yeah, they were like, a couple has dropped
Speaker 3: out and we'd love you to be here tomorrow.
Speaker 2: If you can, and we were like okay, and next
Speaker 2: minute we were down in Melbourne the next day and.
Speaker 1: How do you get sort of put your life on
Speaker 1: pause like that? Did you just ghost everyone, including your
Speaker 1: family and your jobs, like what happens.
Speaker 2: Oh, it was extremely chaotic.
Speaker 4: Okay, there was definitely people that probably got ghosted because
Speaker 4: we didn't have time to tell everyone about it.
Speaker 2: It was like a like a process of elimination.
Speaker 3: It was like, Okay, we'll deal with the people that
Speaker 3: need to know right away, like work commitments, all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, and then everyone else will slowly get
Speaker 3: to And so even when we were down in the block,
Speaker 3: oh no, I forgot to tell this person I can't
Speaker 3: babysit for their kids on this day.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 3: It's kind of a long story, but I'm actually in
Speaker 3: philp Island.
Speaker 2: So yeah, like it was a bit chaotic.
Speaker 1: Could you tell people you're on the block? Did you
Speaker 1: say sorry, I can't babysit your kids for pocket money anymore?
Speaker 4: Some of them we said it was a work trip,
Speaker 4: and then later on they find out we're on the block,
Speaker 4: and I was like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a work trip.
Speaker 3: Thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we didn't know what we could.
Speaker 3: And couldn't say, and so for the people that didn't
Speaker 3: really need to know, it wasn't life or death. It
Speaker 3: was kind of like, I'm sorry, we've actually had an
Speaker 3: unexpected opportunity. We're not here, but I guess for the
Speaker 3: people that need to know, like our parents and immediate
Speaker 3: family and close close friends, it was like, so sorry, guys,
Speaker 3: to ditch you all for ten weeks, but we're off.
Speaker 1: I just want to know about the hourly rate of babysitting.
Speaker 1: Is is it more all lucrative to go on the block?
Speaker 1: Is there hourly rate better than the babysitting daily rate.
Speaker 4: Well, we're not guaranteed any money on the block, so yeah,
Speaker 4: maybe very well, babysitting amazing.
Speaker 1: So keep the babysitting club going. You know, how far
Speaker 1: had you gone in the initial stages of the audition
Speaker 1: process with Lucky before you found out your word selected
Speaker 1: for this season?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Had had you had phone calls? Like was there a
Speaker 1: zoom call or something? Did you make it through the
Speaker 1: process and get quite close and then get cut off?
Speaker 1: Like what happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we made it through the final round as far
Speaker 3: as we're aware. That was the final round just before
Speaker 3: they started.
Speaker 4: So we did like the home visit, and we also
Speaker 4: did like a in person video, I mean an interview
Speaker 4: that was videos and then do.
Speaker 2: We have other calls?
Speaker 3: I think we had a phone call or something like
Speaker 3: that and had at least police checks and all that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So like we had gone got like relatively in the.
Speaker 3: Process and it was yeah, we got to know that
Speaker 3: literally just before they were going.
Speaker 2: Down to film, So yeah, we were very far into
Speaker 2: the process.
Speaker 1: Did you guys wait to see what Jesse and Paige
Speaker 1: had done to make up your minds on what was
Speaker 1: going to happen with the theme? Because I got imagine
Speaker 1: through the casting process that ask you it's in Philip Island,
Speaker 1: you know, are you going to do Seaside, You're going
Speaker 1: to do Colonial? Are you going to do Grandma's House?
Speaker 1: Or whatever it was that they kept saying about Jesse
Speaker 1: and Page. What happened in regards to that, Like when
Speaker 1: it came to the theme, did you try and watch
Speaker 1: to see what maybe Jesse and Paige had done before
Speaker 1: making a decision.
Speaker 2: Well, we had no idea. We didn't know who had left.
Speaker 2: We were just told a couple had left, any be
Speaker 2: here tomorrow and we just said yeah.
Speaker 4: So we walked in, never seen the house, some sid pictures,
Speaker 4: didn't know their style, didn't know the couple.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we had no idea about Jess page himself
Speaker 2: or knew was that. Yeah, the couple had left it
Speaker 2: with the mental health and that was it.
Speaker 1: What did you think of what had been done? Like?
Speaker 1: Is that like turning up at someone who's baking a
Speaker 1: cake for you and you're like, turns out, I'm like
Speaker 1: toasta tolerant, I only want ice cream cake? Like what
Speaker 1: happens with walking in and seeing what someone's done before you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an interesting experience because, like, obviously, all the
Speaker 3: other couples had, you know, a couple of weeks to
Speaker 3: prepare before coming to the block, to have mood boards
Speaker 3: and visions, and they could create a style that they
Speaker 3: wanted to, you know, adopt for the house.
Speaker 2: But obviously, coming in late, we really didn't get that opportunity.
Speaker 3: We're literally seeing it for the first time mid like
Speaker 3: a week.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we just had.
Speaker 3: To run with it and try and make it our own,
Speaker 3: but at the same time not too much our own,
Speaker 3: because then the house would look really disjointed.
Speaker 1: So, well, you're doing well, I mean, which is always good,
Speaker 1: But I was curious to know have you had chance
Speaker 1: to I just want to have them on speed up.
Speaker 1: Were you able to talk to them? Why you continued building.
Speaker 2: No, we actually had no contact. Well we didn't have
Speaker 2: the jumpers their socials or anything. So no, we had
Speaker 2: no contact wow to start with. But we have we
Speaker 2: have met them.
Speaker 1: Now, what do they have to say about what you've
Speaker 1: what you've done?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Are they like you've followed ours and you've done a
Speaker 1: good job. If they've given you any feedback on what
Speaker 1: you managed to do once they left.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've been really positive, reportive, which has been lovely
Speaker 3: and so I mean, I don't think anyone's going to
Speaker 3: come to your face and be like, oh, I hate
Speaker 3: what you did at the house, but to our face,
Speaker 3: they've been really lovely and supportive, and so that's yeah,
Speaker 3: we appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I think that's always really good. Did you
Speaker 1: ask if you could do over any of their rooms?
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what I would want to know, Like,
Speaker 1: did you see one of their rooms and be like, oh, dear,
Speaker 1: they've put up that painting that's really grading on me.
Speaker 1: Are you able to ask if you could do over
Speaker 1: any of that stuff? Or do they just tell you
Speaker 1: they had to leave those rooms that had already been
Speaker 1: squared off.
Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of against block rules to like just
Speaker 3: go and change your room unless be presented, unless there's
Speaker 3: a readier room. And so we couldn't just come in
Speaker 3: and just rip off the wallpaper and do things like that.
Speaker 2: And plus we did not have the time or the budget. Unfortunately.
Speaker 3: I would have loved to have made some of the
Speaker 3: rooms my own, but like didn't even have a second
Speaker 3: I was already running behind schedule for the rooms that
Speaker 3: we were doing, let alone redoing others.
Speaker 1: And so that's a negative. That's a negative, goes right up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: could not go back and do any of those rooms.
Speaker 1: Just close the door, you know, you know, when you've
Speaker 1: got a room in the house you don't like, or
Speaker 1: you put your junk in, that's what you do. Just
Speaker 1: close that door and pretend it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: We're just embracing it. Yeah, are beautiful.
Speaker 1: You would have needed to make some sort of quick
Speaker 1: decision making. So how did you decide who was going
Speaker 1: to build and who was going to shop? And like,
Speaker 1: maybe we haven't seen it flipping around a few times
Speaker 1: before those show because we're, you know, only up to
Speaker 1: what we've seen. But I can imagine being sisters that
Speaker 1: you know, you would have had some sibling rivalry you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you'd be like, I'm better at this and you're
Speaker 1: better at that. How did you make that decision?
Speaker 3: We kind of just know where our strengths and weaknesses lie.
Speaker 3: And it just kind of made sense that Charlotte would
Speaker 3: stay on site. She's like really practical, really yeah, she
Speaker 3: just has a gift when it comes to understanding the
Speaker 3: building world. And and then it just made more sense
Speaker 3: that I would go shopping because we can't have two
Speaker 3: people on site.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we kind of been unspoken. There wasn't really
Speaker 2: any right, Yeah, no rivalry at all.
Speaker 3: It was kind of like, Okay, we know where our
Speaker 3: strength is lie, and let's just put each other in
Speaker 3: where our weaknesses are. But let's just split and do
Speaker 3: our thing and then come back together and figure it
Speaker 3: out to you know, the bit that we don't understand
Speaker 3: and or not very good at.
Speaker 1: I wonder whether I'd be the page of the group though,
Speaker 1: where it's like she went shopping to Chadstone and instead
Speaker 1: of coming back with paining to or whatever she should
Speaker 1: have come back with, she came back with shoes. Did
Speaker 1: that ever that cross your minds?
Speaker 2: I would have killed her. She did not.
Speaker 3: There's no way in the world, you catch me doing that. One,
Speaker 3: I didn't have the time. Two, I'm not about to
Speaker 3: go and spend my own money on fancy shoes when
Speaker 3: you know, I'm barely even having.
Speaker 2: The time to shower. Looking stylish was not my priority.
Speaker 3: But no, the fact that she found time to do
Speaker 3: that and present her room props to her but no,
Speaker 3: absolutely not, that would just stress me out even more.
Speaker 1: We should also talk about the teams that are there.
Speaker 1: Kinlie seemed to give you a pretty frosty welcome. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's probably the best way to describe her response to
Speaker 1: your arriving was that the deal is that sort of
Speaker 1: how you came across. Because I was a little bit curious.
Speaker 1: I kept seeing sort of in the back of footage
Speaker 1: the two of you sort of standing next to Kylie
Speaker 1: at times, So I wondered whether or not that sort
Speaker 1: of frosty reception she gave you was accurate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what you stay on TV was our experience when
Speaker 3: we initially met her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was not thrilled to see us.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, while that obviously was a
Speaker 3: frosty encounter, we always you know, made an effort and tried,
Speaker 3: and we wanted to break down those walls.
Speaker 2: And you know, get to know her. And I don't
Speaker 2: know how.
Speaker 3: Much she enjoyed us trying to do that or if
Speaker 3: it was received well, But at the same time, we
Speaker 3: weren't going to get on that same level and treat
Speaker 3: her the same way she was treating us. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we yeah, we made our mission to like continue to
Speaker 3: be kind and make an effort.
Speaker 1: Did she respond well to that some time?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there was definitely a few moments where
Speaker 3: I felt like, you know, she was telling me about
Speaker 3: her kids and her life back at home and that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, and that was nice to get a
Speaker 3: glimpse into her world.
Speaker 2: But yeah, no, there was obviously the other time. So
Speaker 2: she was just not thrilled by our existence on the block.
Speaker 1: I mean, their little wins, aren't they. When you're trying
Speaker 1: to relate to someone and they start telling you about
Speaker 1: their children, that's like, okay, we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, And I genuinely cared about her and Brad and
Speaker 3: wanted them to do well, and you know, wanted to
Speaker 3: build a relationship with them. So it was really important
Speaker 3: to me to you know, find out a bit about
Speaker 3: her story and who she was, and you know who was.
Speaker 1: The most welcoming, Like who do you think when you
Speaker 1: got there? Was like willing to get to know the
Speaker 1: two of you, Me and.
Speaker 4: Courtney and Christian kind of took off a round on
Speaker 4: a little tour and they said hi first, and the
Speaker 4: rest of them we had we didn't really see apart
Speaker 4: from whether it was either very quick encounter, but we
Speaker 4: hadn't actually seen them until.
Speaker 2: A bit later on a couple of days later.
Speaker 1: And then were you able to be like are you
Speaker 1: crew or you contestants we're competing against? Like how did
Speaker 1: you know that they were? They were other people that
Speaker 1: were you're up against.
Speaker 2: Honestly, a lot of people came into our house on
Speaker 2: that birthday and everyone was introducing themselves and I literally
Speaker 2: said to and I said what do you do?
Speaker 4: And I think it was Christian who came up and
Speaker 4: he was like, I'm Christian. I was like, who are you.
Speaker 4: He's like, I'm a contestant.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, okay, out of my house.
Speaker 3: Plumbers and all these people coming. So they'd be like Hi,
Speaker 3: I'm Bob and you'd be like, oh okay, Bob, what
Speaker 3: do you do? And they're like, well, I'm the electrician,
Speaker 3: You're like great, nice to meet you. And so I
Speaker 3: guess it was the same thing with like Charlotte meeting
Speaker 3: like the contestants, but all she knows they could be
Speaker 3: plaster and so that was pretty fun me.
Speaker 1: So the builders and the tradesman, right, they have been
Speaker 1: a huge storyline this year. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: them being flipped out. I mean, you go slip houses,
Speaker 1: but this season of block people of flipping builders like left,
Speaker 1: right and center. Why has that been more common this
Speaker 1: year more so than any other year?
Speaker 4: I think actually every other I know, like last year
Speaker 4: there was a couple of builders that changed too. So
Speaker 4: I'm not really sure if it's just a new thing
Speaker 4: or like it's a lot being a block builder.
Speaker 2: They work very hard, so it hops off to all
Speaker 2: the builders on the block. But yeah, I don't know
Speaker 2: if maybe Philip Island it was harder. Yeah, the travel
Speaker 2: was really hard for a lot of the builders, especially
Speaker 2: if they weren't a lot of trade.
Speaker 3: Right, And so I think, like huge commitment to move
Speaker 3: away from your family or have these long days where
Speaker 3: you can't go home or you're driving long hours, And
Speaker 3: so I guess like maybe and look to be honest, Like,
Speaker 3: you really rely on your build team and if it's
Speaker 3: not a good fit, like, it's just not.
Speaker 2: A good fit.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't necessarily mean that you know they're bad
Speaker 3: people or anything like that. It just means that you
Speaker 3: need to find someone that you feel comfortable with, I
Speaker 3: feel safe with, and.
Speaker 2: That you feel like you came together. Yeah, be a
Speaker 2: team because you so heavily rely on them.
Speaker 1: Did you ever is it in new contract that you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to ask them to stay over? Because that's
Speaker 1: what I would do. I'd be like, you've done such
Speaker 1: a great job today. Can I make you some dinners?
Speaker 1: You know you want us some cookies and milk? Do
Speaker 1: you want to sleep on the couch? Are you allowed
Speaker 1: to do that?
Speaker 3: That would probably be frowned upon, And I'm sure it
Speaker 3: is maybe in the contract. But they kick out all
Speaker 3: got a kick out trade. Well, she was one of
Speaker 3: the issues where they kicked out very early. No one
Speaker 3: of they would have treads on a Sunday.
Speaker 2: She's here. They left for Saturday night and most weeks
Speaker 2: bet their like five today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, otherwise I would have been like one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: We have so many bedrooms in this house, stay over.
Speaker 1: But so was Yeah, I'd be making them spag bog.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, you know, here, have a glass of wine.
Speaker 1: I mean only if they did a good job.
Speaker 3: I didn't have making bad While I was out, I
Speaker 3: didn't have time to eat that you're not going to
Speaker 3: have time to eat.
Speaker 1: I often hear though, the people lose weight while being
Speaker 1: on the block, and I think that's wild because you know,
Speaker 1: people had to have drink. I mean, you can order
Speaker 1: your own food, you can bring your own booze. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of chances for you to just be
Speaker 1: the total pigs.
Speaker 2: We did not eat like them. We were so anxious
Speaker 2: all the time. So on edge that like to DNA,
Speaker 2: I was like, stuff you all are eating? Yeah, I
Speaker 2: didn't eat much at all in the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: Didn't sleep, didn't e didn't drink like nothing, And yeah
Speaker 3: I did lose weight.
Speaker 1: I love a good reality show because you would always
Speaker 1: lose weight, doesn't matter what it is. People like, did
Speaker 1: you lose weight on Survivor? You're like, no, I lost
Speaker 1: weight on Big Brother. Like they feed you never on
Speaker 1: any of these shows. They keep you high as a kite,
Speaker 1: basically on adrenaline. You're never allowed to sleep and you
Speaker 1: can never eat.
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound very fun, does it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, I'd still do it any other day.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: One thing I did notice though, and I was going
Speaker 1: to ask you this question if it's not too personal,
Speaker 1: and that is that you keep talking about your dad
Speaker 1: and you know the advice that he's given you over
Speaker 1: the years. But what about your mom? Is she watching
Speaker 1: the show now and not? Why isn't she getting a mention?
Speaker 2: No? No, we do.
Speaker 3: I don't know how they're like editing it, but we
Speaker 3: definitely do mention it. It's like a joint thing of
Speaker 3: like broth our parents. I mean obviously our dad's you know,
Speaker 3: in finance, but both our parents have like set us
Speaker 3: up for a win in life and you know, taught
Speaker 3: us all these valuable script skills as kids.
Speaker 2: So we're very grateful for our mom.
Speaker 3: She's such a hard worker and you know has yet
Speaker 3: done very well for herself, taken many qualities from her
Speaker 3: to yet one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So no, are they loving watching the show? Like do
Speaker 1: they have favorites apart from you? Like do they tell
Speaker 1: you Grant and Courtney are not their favorites? Like do
Speaker 1: they tell you what they think of the show. Are
Speaker 1: they protective?
Speaker 2: Loving it?
Speaker 3: Our mom's absolutely evidence yeah, she well, because she's just
Speaker 3: you know ten people.
Speaker 2: Mom, She's like, why are they being mean to you?
Speaker 3: Why are they Why couldn't they help you? It was
Speaker 3: your first week or like she feels it. I'm like, Mom,
Speaker 3: it's okay. Like I'm okay, it's going to be okay.
Speaker 3: Whereas Dad's like, yes, I've raised strong girl. I was like,
Speaker 3: go into the world where m'm's like, oh my gosh, why.
Speaker 1: Couldn't we protect my babies?
Speaker 2: Literally? Do you know what?
Speaker 1: I got crosslow with it? Like, you know, when Grant
Speaker 1: and Courtney don't turn up to like corporate body corporate
Speaker 1: meetings or they don't turn up to like challenges, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd be more annoyed about that than what people say
Speaker 1: about me and the confessionals. You know, I'd be like,
Speaker 1: that's annoying. What happens when it comes to being told
Speaker 1: that you must turn up to body corporates and that
Speaker 1: some people.
Speaker 3: Don't, I mean, that stuff doesn't fade that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not fair unless I'm calling the body corporate.
Speaker 3: That's not my problem. We didn't really know what was
Speaker 3: going on without whole Body Corporate because we and they
Speaker 3: were like, what is going on?
Speaker 2: But no, look, we kind of like stick to our
Speaker 2: own lane.
Speaker 3: And like, if you're choosing not to come to the
Speaker 3: Body Corporate I was calling it, and have a problem
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we obviously care about playing a.
Speaker 3: Fair game and you know, sticking to the rules and stuff,
Speaker 3: and so that's what we strive to do. But if
Speaker 3: someone else is not going to do that, then that's
Speaker 3: not that's not my problem.
Speaker 1: You know, there's also a secret. You know, they keep
Speaker 1: talking about a secret that you guys are keeping, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to give anything away because like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe we're not up to that yet. But you know,
Speaker 1: it was the idea to keep this secret from everybody
Speaker 1: else a good or a bad idea in hindsight. Can
Speaker 1: you at least sort of delve into that point?
Speaker 3: Well, it was never really personally, we didn't ever want
Speaker 3: it to really be a secret.
Speaker 2: We had said to producers that we.
Speaker 3: Were as then we were asked to be subtle about
Speaker 3: our experience, and I said, to produce this point blank,
Speaker 3: there's no way I'll ever lie, which is not who
Speaker 3: we are. But I'm happy to, you know, like I
Speaker 3: wait until they asked. I'm not going to walk in
Speaker 3: or hot and heavy be like, hey.
Speaker 2: Guys, I knew here. Should I tell you how many
Speaker 2: investment properties I have? Because nobody else doing that when
Speaker 2: they all have. Yeah, and I would never do that
Speaker 2: in my personal.
Speaker 3: Life, but you know, if they ask, I'm absolutely going
Speaker 3: to tell them because you.
Speaker 2: Know, I don't really think it's that big of a deal.
Speaker 4: But also Mimi, Christian and Courtney all knew and Memi
Speaker 4: especially in detail within the first like three days.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it.
Speaker 3: Wasn't a secret. I don't know how they're going to
Speaker 3: play it, but yet the contests were definitely aware that
Speaker 3: we had experience.
Speaker 2: If they chose to ask. The boys and Kinlie and
Speaker 2: Brad never asked about really any house, so I were
Speaker 2: aware of it. So yeah, look, I don't I don't
Speaker 2: love the way that.
Speaker 3: It you know, it looks like it could play out,
Speaker 3: and it did play out, because it's not a true
Speaker 3: representation of like, you know, how we wanted to happen.
Speaker 2: But you know, in the TV.
Speaker 1: Show, this happens through all the time. People tell me
Speaker 1: secrets and then I forget them, Like as in people
Speaker 1: tell me stories. They'll be like, by the way, Ben,
Speaker 1: did you know blah blah blah happened? And I'll be
Speaker 1: like shocking, and they'll be like, please, don't tell anyone,
Speaker 1: and I'll say, oh, no, I won't because I've already
Speaker 1: forgotten what you told me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Honestly, I forget things all the time too.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, unless it's like vitally important, I'm like
Speaker 3: that you know who's that person?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've completely forgotten. Are you looking forward to the
Speaker 1: final auction? What are the nerves like? Have you been
Speaker 1: back to Philip Island? I need to know what's going
Speaker 1: on in your day to day brains.
Speaker 2: I mean the auction is yeah, obviously fast approaching, but.
Speaker 3: We were nervous, we're excited. We don't really know how
Speaker 3: to feel. It's all a bit it's all a bit
Speaker 3: new and a bit crazy.
Speaker 4: But I feel like auctions just on a normal weekend
Speaker 4: when they're wrapping, let alone on national TV and when.
Speaker 2: Five thousands of getting sold together, yeah, with potentially be
Speaker 2: money on the line. So yeah, we have been back
Speaker 2: to Philip Island.
Speaker 3: We're actually we're just there, oh touch not paint, doing
Speaker 3: the last minute. Oh great, you know, making sure that
Speaker 3: the house is perfect before it hits the market.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's good. I would advice I'm going to
Speaker 1: give you before I wrap up this podcast is this
Speaker 1: is not for the block. This is what I do
Speaker 1: on the day to day. Write down the number of
Speaker 1: what you want and put that on the vision board
Speaker 1: and just say that every day. And I reckon. I
Speaker 1: don't know why, because I'm not religiously superstitious or any
Speaker 1: of these things, except that I sound like I incredibly
Speaker 1: am I always think that's I always think that's a
Speaker 1: good way to do it. So you don't need to
Speaker 1: tell me the number now. But we'll talk about this
Speaker 1: once you've won all the money. Was that number accurate?
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll write it.
Speaker 1: We'll write it down, sirs, every day, the two of
Speaker 1: you don't even show the number toween each other. Just
Speaker 1: write the number down independently and see who gets it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be a fun experiment.
Speaker 1: Hey, it would be good. So the last question I
Speaker 1: ask everyone who joins the pod, what is something for
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, Like something that we as an audience
Speaker 1: won't see, were you know, kind of like a behind
Speaker 1: the scenes secret about what it's like to be on
Speaker 1: the block.
Speaker 2: Behind the scene.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of people that have these
Speaker 3: assumptions that like they watch the Block and they think
Speaker 3: all the contestants don't work hard and they're not doing
Speaker 3: all nighters and everything will just be picked for them
Speaker 3: when they come back. And I'm like, no, we are
Speaker 3: doing all nighters, and yes, we are literally working every
Speaker 3: minute of the day. Well acshually, I could only speak
Speaker 3: to yourselves. We were working every minute of the day
Speaker 3: that we're away. And so yeah, I think, yeah, people
Speaker 3: just think that it's like, you know, maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit more produced or a little bit more I don't know,
Speaker 3: like there's all these helps.
Speaker 2: But no there was, but I must say yeah, I
Speaker 2: was going to say too.
Speaker 4: You will have all the camera crew, all the producers,
Speaker 4: all the assistance, everyone watching you struggling to try and
Speaker 4: carry things, and nobody will have help.
Speaker 1: How do they make you look so good? And there's
Speaker 1: the confessionals though, you know, like those Real Housewives confessionals
Speaker 1: where you're sitting on a glamorous couch and you've got
Speaker 1: your makeup in your head done like you girls are great,
Speaker 1: Like have they got someone come around and give you
Speaker 1: the give you the Rachel from friends to try and
Speaker 1: make you look nice at that point only on.
Speaker 2: A Sunday and the rest of the week we look
Speaker 2: like slogabol.
Speaker 3: Sunday we did get hair and makes up done, so
Speaker 3: that is our saving great, that's only Bestfully.
Speaker 2: I would be looking up with Jackson's through my head.
Speaker 1: I don't reckon. That's when they should do the confessionals
Speaker 1: when you're completely out of your mind.
Speaker 2: I think I do. I feel like I'm looking like
Speaker 2: a hot mess. Would be final authentic.
Speaker 1: But imagine them asking you at that point. They'd be like,
Speaker 1: what do you think of Kylie? And you just be
Speaker 1: like so stressed out and you just be like, who
Speaker 1: that's Sea which with the green hair? Oh my god?
Speaker 3: I hate it?
Speaker 1: Like you know, you'd be out of your mind.
Speaker 4: They do intervirals like every five seconds, so I guess
Speaker 4: they're targetting.
Speaker 2: That throughout the week, not when we're looking eyes. We're
Speaker 2: looking like a train wreck during the week.
Speaker 1: And no offense to Kyline because I've also now made
Speaker 1: my hair green and have to there you go. No, I'm
Speaker 1: only joking. I was just trying to say that to
Speaker 1: make it sound like good for Kyling in case she
Speaker 1: listens to the podcast.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I was like, wow, I love
Speaker 3: that for you.
Speaker 1: No, I've actually been buying the fashion that you guys
Speaker 1: have been sporting throughout the season because you're my favorite.
Speaker 1: I say that to everyone.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course I.
Speaker 1: Have to let you both go. Can I just say
Speaker 1: good luck with the auction? Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: being so generous with your time and talking to me
Speaker 1: with my bizarre questions. You know, all the very best.
Speaker 1: I'm in your audience and I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: how this, how this turns out.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks so much, we appreciate it.
Speaker 1: What's the number, guys, what's the number that's in your head?
Speaker 1: One point one point eight two million? Like, you know what,
Speaker 1: are you reckons?
Speaker 2: Sticking? Don't even think that lot?
Speaker 1: Okay, well, just raise the amount that you've got in
Speaker 1: your head. Then it sounds like it's too low. Six
Speaker 1: six million, six million, All right, guys, I'll let you go,
Speaker 1: have a safe trip back to Melbourne wherever you're driving,
Speaker 1: and I will talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bye bye.