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The Block star Sharon Johal smokes after fellow contestant Jenny nabs tradie

The Block star Sharon Johal smokes after fellow contestant Jenny nabs tradie

A slab of Vodka Cruisers has caused chaos on The Block, after one team managed to bribe a tradesman to get ahead on bathroom week.

Faced with the fear of not finishing on time, glamorous former neighbors actress Sharon, from House 3, was furious to hear her appointment for underfloor heating installation was bumped by another contestant.

It turns out it was nabbed by House 4’s apprentice Chippy Jenny, who used the age-old bribery tactic to coax the installers into attending their house first.

Moaning about the sneaky move to fellow contestant Rachel, Sharon was heard calling the unknown culprit “some d*ckheads” while waiting for a coffee at McCafe.

“Have you guys got your underfloor heating booked in?” Rachel had asked.

“Ours was supposed to be first but some d*ckheads cut the line and now we’re like second or third… D*ckheads as in our friends on the show, other contestants,” Sharon fumed.

“I don’t know how they do that, I called every day and I’m like ‘Are you sure we’re first? Are you sure we’re first’ … And all of a sudden they’re at someone else’s house,” she added, concluding that while she “loves everybody” on the show “there was a process in order”.

Elsewhere, Jenny was busy bragging about her one-up on the other teams.

“Last night I called the underfloor heating guy and just said ‘what can I do for you so you can come earlier?’ and he said ‘you can buy me some cruisers’,” she laughed as the camera panned over a slab of the popular vodka drink.

While Sharon wasn’t impressed by the dirty gameplay, House 1’s Sarah-Jane gave Jenny credit for the move.

“Jenny is good. She bribed them, she bribed them with a slab of cruisers to come first at 6 o’clock,” the mother-of-one told producers.

“I respect the hustle… I was like ‘touche b*tch, touche’… I’ll be on the cruisers next week,” she said.

It comes as the teams battle it out for the biggest prize ever on The Blockwith the bathroom week winner to be awarded a bonus $250,000 kitchen upgrade on top of the $10,000 cash.

The rooms and winners will be revealed on Sunday night’s episode, airing from 7.30pm on Channel 9.

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The Block: Elle Ferguson and Joel Patfull leave show amid claims it wasn’t ‘on brand’

The Block: Elle Ferguson and Joel Patfull leave show amid claims it wasn't 'on brand'

The Block’s first scandal of the season has finally aired, with influencer Elle Ferguson and her AFL star beau Joel Patfull bailing on the show without so much as a goodbye on Monday night’s episode.

It comes after weeks of headlines surrounding their shock exit, which host Scott Cam has slammed as “p*ss poor” and “unAustralian” in interviews ahead of the season.

Despite reports the couple left the competition to be with Patfull’s mother after a nasty fall, it appears the duo bowed out of the challenge because it wasn’t “on brand”, with Cam telling fellow competitors they’d complained that the toilet paper was “too scratchy”.

Ahead of the shock revelation, Patfull and Ferguson’s first room challenge copped some negative criticism from judges Shaynna Blaze, Neale Whitaker and Darren Palmer, who commented that it was “too Bondi” for the country setting.

“They have smashed the life out of this home… and that breaks my heart,” Blaze said of the room’s lack of character features.

Whitaker agreed: “If they stick with this look throughout the old part of the house and the modern part of the house, it’s going to get very stale and very samey, very quickly.”

He recommended the pair “amp up the heritage, and “have respect for the original bones” in the coming weeks.

But rather than take heed of the advice, the glamorous pair left without a word, leaving the house they’d been assigned in a state of disarray.

On hearing of their departure the next morning, Scotty was in disbelief.

“They just don’t feel like it’s … right for them to do The Block,” executive producer Julian Cress told him.

“Why would you leave after two days?” Cam marveled.

Breaking the news to the remaining contestants, he said: “Last night, if you might remember in the studio, I gave you guys an out … an opportunity, if you thought you couldn’t cut it on the show, you could leave if you wanted to, you could pull the pin.

“I obviously said that tongue in cheek because I didn’t think anyone would drop an opportunity like this, but I’ve just found out that Joel and Elle are on their way to the airport. They have left the show,” he explained to gasps from the cast.

“Why didn’t they even say goodbye?” asked Jenny from House 4.

“They didn’t say goodbye… They didn’t say thanks for having us… They just left,” Cam said, elaborating that they didn’t suggest they were leaving because of a family emergency.

“Well, everything’s fine, apparently, for some reason, The Block isn’t ‘on brand’ for them … And they also said that the toilet paper was too scratchy,” he told the shocked contestants who admitted they had all taken to “weeing in the backyard” amid the competition.

Meanwhile, Sarah-Jane, from winning House 1, declared she had predicted the couple weren’t Block material.

“I saw that coming… They didn’t make any effort to get to know us… They looked miserable the whole time… I heard that they were like ‘I can’t wear that, that doesn’t represent us’,” she told the others, adding that they seemed “sour” after coming fourth in the room reveal.

On hearing they were to be replaced imminently, she said: “I’m glad that someone’s getting the opportunity that’s going to appreciate it … Don’t bring them from Bondi.”

Parents-of-three Rachel and Ryan have now shacked up in House 2 instead of Ferguson and Patfull.

The Block Tree Change continues Tuesday night from 7.30pm on Channel 9

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The Block: Elle Ferguson and Joel Patfull slammed by Sarah Jane

The Block: Elle Ferguson and Joel Patfull slammed by Sarah Jane

After months of controversy, Elle Ferguson and Joel Patfull have finally made their reality TV debut on the new season of The Block.

The influencer and her former AFL star partner — who famously quit the Gisborne set of the reality series after just two days — initially appeared ready to take on the challenge during the show’s first episode on Sunday night.

But while the couple were set on convincing block viewers they were there to play, one fellow contestant was instantly suspicious of the pair, and she didn’t mince words.

Revealing she recognized beauty entrepreneur Ferguson “straight away,” team one’s Sarah-Jane fumed to producers: “She’s already famous, she’s got 600,000 followers on Instagram, she’s got sh*tloads of money, why are they here?”

The Victorian mother-of-one, who is competing with her husband Tom, had a lot to say about influencers in a pre-show interview.

“Social influencers… Some I respect obviously,” she began.

“Some make a huge career out of it! Look at your Kim Kardashians and your Rozalia Russians and people like that … Bec Judd! Good on them. But people who just go on shows to (boost their) social media, I don’t have time for that sh*t. Like, don’t waste my time.”

Sarah-Jane wasn’t the only person to make their judgment on the pair known, with host Scott Cam throwing out veiled digs in voiceovers throughout the episode.

In one, I described Ferguson as a “self-confessed global influencer and beauty entrepreneur”, referring elsewhere to the genetically-blessed pair as “Bondi babes”.

It comes after Cam suggested in several interviews that the duo left The Block 48 hours after arriving because they weren’t up to the challenge, not because of Patfull’s mother’s ill-health as was previously reported.

am has been busy sledging the pair for throwing in the towel, calling it “p*ss poor” and “unAustralian”, amid reports the duo flew to Adelaide to car for Patfull’s mother after a nasty fall.

Speaking to news.com.au in the lead up to the Tree Change season premiere on Sunday, Cam revealed the couple upped sticks in the middle of the night with “no explanation”.

“They didn’t give us a reason why they were leaving. They never mentioned anything to us about visiting their sick mother,” Scott said.

During episode one, Ferguson showed some signs of finding the competition difficult, though no more than the other teams.

“I’m not gonna lie… it was a little intimidating,” she said on walking into the building site of House Three.

“It was a demolition site, and when I say demolition site, you couldn’t see the ground.”

After night one, the influencer told producers: “I did think someone was going to come and maybe sey here’s a heater… but no… it was fresh.”

Promos for the next episode see Cam expressing his shock at the couple’s abrupt exit.

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