Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 2: Premiering tonight at seven point thirty on Channel nine, a
Speaker 2: very special premiere of the Block. They are celebrating their
Speaker 2: twentieth season. It's crazy, I did say. They're doing it
Speaker 2: on an island, Block Island and Phillip Island down to Victoria.
Speaker 2: The host has been doing it for eighteen of those
Speaker 2: twenty years, joins us. Now it is Scott cam Welcome
Speaker 2: to the pickup Scottie.
Speaker 3: Oh good guys, here you go.
Speaker 4: I love Scott debunk this for me. You have been
Speaker 4: hosting for eighteen seasons. And we heard this rumor that
Speaker 4: you were originally discovered drinking a beer in a pub
Speaker 4: just like regular bloke when a producers like stumbled in
Speaker 4: and said, hey, we need a new host.
Speaker 1: Is there any truth to that?
Speaker 3: Well, it's close to that, it's not quite true because
Speaker 3: actually it was twenty five years ago and there was
Speaker 3: a producer in the pub looking for a carpenter for
Speaker 3: a TV show to screen test. He was screen testing
Speaker 3: three or four or five carpenters, and he saw that
Speaker 3: I was chatting away and and I was a carpenter,
Speaker 3: and I had the ut out the front with a
Speaker 3: sign riding and all that sort of Thing and the Dog,
Speaker 3: and he wanted He asked me to do a screencip
Speaker 3: for a TV show called Backyard Blitz. Oh yeah, So
Speaker 3: I said no, that wasn't my go you know, I
Speaker 3: didn't know anything about television. So he rang me the
Speaker 3: next day off my ute sign riding, got my number,
Speaker 3: rang me the next day and he came to my building.
Speaker 3: So I did a screen test and I got the
Speaker 3: job on Backyard Blitz.
Speaker 4: That's insane.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: The right place, right time, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Twenty or eighteen?
Speaker 3: Twenty five years later? I've been doing the Block for
Speaker 3: eight aen seasons because I've done about ten or so
Speaker 3: or more shows for Channel nine, Building related, most of
Speaker 3: them but some not. And the Block I started probably
Speaker 3: sixteen years ago.
Speaker 1: But so much has changed on the Block over the
Speaker 1: last twenty seasons. And I think we've seen this across
Speaker 1: all reality TV shows that over the years they've kind
Speaker 1: of lent a little bit more into drama. And it
Speaker 1: was something I noticed on the last season of the
Speaker 1: Block that there was there was just a bit more
Speaker 1: friction and fighting between the contestants. Do you think that
Speaker 1: that drama is like it's something that's being manufactured at all,
Speaker 1: or do you think it's genuinely that the contestants are
Speaker 1: having such a tricky time dealing with each other.
Speaker 3: Well, look, you know what, I just want to clarify
Speaker 3: that we don't manufacture drama on our show. Some shows
Speaker 3: do that, Yeah, and that's fine. We do not manufacture
Speaker 3: drama on the show. It's organic. It happens. And I
Speaker 3: think also it's just the style of person that goes
Speaker 3: on the Telly because back in the day, it was
Speaker 3: the first reality shows like The Block that were on air,
Speaker 3: so people didn't know what the outcome was, what to expect,
Speaker 3: And now people are there watching this style of television
Speaker 3: for twenty years. So the people that come on they
Speaker 3: want to maybe be famous, they maybe want to be influencers,
Speaker 3: you know, and so they're fighting for position, jocking for position.
Speaker 4: Scott, have you ever clashed with one of the contestants
Speaker 4: on or off screen? But like, there's got to be
Speaker 4: over eighteen seasons, there's got to be someone that you
Speaker 4: just didn't get along with.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And it's not off the camera. It's always
Speaker 3: on camera. I don't you know, I certainly don't take
Speaker 3: anything home with me, but I'll let him know how
Speaker 3: I feel on camera, and I'm sure the folks at
Speaker 3: home understand how I feel because I wear my heart
Speaker 3: on the sleeve. I work hard. I've been doing it
Speaker 3: for a long time, and so I you know, one
Speaker 3: thing I am, you know, really hard against is laziness
Speaker 3: on the show. Thousands and thousands of people come on
Speaker 3: the show want to get on the show. And if
Speaker 3: you've got the opportunity to be on the show, so
Speaker 3: you've got to work hard and make every post a winner.
Speaker 3: And if you're not working hard and you're lazy, that
Speaker 3: really irks me because there's so many people that want
Speaker 3: to be and so I really call that out all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: Scott, I want to ask, what's your take on the
Speaker 2: logis this year? It's this week this Sunday, Actually Gold
Speaker 2: LOGI everyone's talking about because you know, little Robert Irwin's
Speaker 2: nominated and there's controversy if he won it. Do you
Speaker 2: think if he win wins it, do you think as
Speaker 2: a gold LOGI win yourself well deserved or should it
Speaker 2: go to someone who's been in the industry for decades?
Speaker 3: Oh? I don't think you have to be in the
Speaker 3: industry for decades. I think it's based on your past
Speaker 3: year's work. You know, Robert's deserving. Everybody's deserving there, and
Speaker 3: it's a public boat, and you know, good on him.
Speaker 3: I can tay that because I've got one, so it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. Yeah, where is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've checked out.
Speaker 2: Where do we keep it? Actually, where's the gold?
Speaker 1: LOGI?
Speaker 3: It's in my dining room, next to the silver and
Speaker 3: the twelve.
Speaker 2: And they'll get another line of this season, the twentieth
Speaker 2: season of the Blog a Phillip Island. It's going to
Speaker 2: be a good one tonight, premiering seven thirty on Channel
Speaker 2: nine and nine. Now, Scott, thanks for joining the pickup.
Speaker 3: Hey, good on your guys.
Speaker 2: S thank you all right back after this on the
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