Reality TV is much like trying to hunt a delicious animal – it’s all about patiently lying in wait before going in for the kill. But instead of guns, traps and unfashionable camouflage gear (so 2000s), the weapon of choice is cameras everywhere and waiting for the contestants to say or do something weird.
In this season of The Block we were treated to plenty of drama caught on camera – but according to the contestants, the stuff that we didn’t get to see was everyone having a lot of fun and being a little naughty.
“We honestly did have a really beautiful time together and we did have so many laughs in that house,” House 4 winner Courtney told Domain .
This was the first year that all The Block contestants were forced to cohabitate in a sharehouse. While this did cause much of the theatrics over the season – wash your dishes, Chantel and Wyatt, you’re adults! – Courtney also says, “it’s the best thing that The Block could have done for us”.
“To come home each day and just talk about the war stories from site that day, it was pretty incredible, and it made us all so much closer.”
But Courtney also says that much of the fun they had wasn’t necessarily “off-camera” – they were just too inappropriate to be included in what we see on the air.
“I think Rosco and Courtney were so inappropriate all the time,” Sev confirmed. “They would say the things that you couldn’t say out loud, and they would say it out loud and on camera.”
“Lisa was always hitting him, being like ‘you can’t say that’,” said Courtney.
Most viewers were only treated to a squeaky-clean and very sweet depiction of Rosco, so this is something of a surprise.
“All false,” Rosco told Domain when asked if he was secretly “the most inappropriate” contestant on the show, but then admitted that he thinks he got “a really good edit”.
His tactic? “You have to be either very sweet or completely off the planet – and then it doesn’t get put on air. I don’t think it was appropriate for television.”
When asked what the weirdest and funniest thing that happened off-camera was, he brought up wearing “women’s undies” during a massage. But Lisa reminded him that they’d actually aired that footage, so it didn’t count.
But Lisa had her own candidate: “Probably when Rick walked in and saw my boobs.”
“Yeah, he walked into our room and Lisa was getting changed,” added Rosco. “Yeah, that was probably the weirdest. His face was weird.”
Wyatt similarly had an off-camera moment that, “to me, was just hilarious”.
“The thing that didn’t make camera is Gino Cursio was doing up landscaping plans and I’d left a bucket of paint with a roller in it just at the back door and he was happening to walk out, dropped his phone, it landed straight in the bucket of paint and he pulled it out and it was covered in paint and it still worked.”
He was also involved in another off-air incident which Sev says made her “nearly wet my pants”, after Wyatt accidentally knocked off her wig while cameras were on her. Sev has been open about having alopecia and bringing over six different wigs with her on The Block .
“There were like nine cameras on me, but it did not make it to air. So, thank you to The Block , thank you for respecting my scalp. But yeah, we were in stitches, we were going to absolutely piss our pants.”
Meanwhile, chaos queen Tayla from House 5 says that absolutely nothing she did was ever not shown on TV – turns out all her wildest stunts, such as leaping into Scotty Cam’s reluctant arms on day one, going for a random swim in Chantel and Wyatt’s pool, and multiple twerking incidents, were all the kind of reality TV gold that the show was desperate to air.
And Adam and Jolene are just excited to leave the share house.
“I will never miss sharehouse living. You know what? I touch wood. I will never live in a share house again,” said Jolene passionately.
Patrick Lenton Patrick Lenton is a journalist and author living in Melbourne. He is the Lifestyle Reporter at Domain.
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