Family bathroom week has arrived on guest bedroom week’s heels, the room where nobody wants to spend money but everyone notices when you don’t. Except Monday morning on The Block wasn’t about tiles or tapware at all. It was about whether two of the five remaining couples would even show up.
Key Moments This Episode
- DRAMACourtney and Sev win week one on 26 points and swap into House Four, sending Lisa and Rosco the other way into House Three.
- ARGUMENTChantel tells Wyatt it feels like “everyone’s gaslighting me” after being called out for $20,000 in undisclosed cash, and says she does not want to continue.
- DISASTERThe new “Waterproof Tuesday” target is already slipping by evening, with most teams behind the clock.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASECourtney and Sev pitch a rooftop terrace, wellness area and an honest-to-god periscope for their new House Four.
- DISASTERAdam and Jolene discover a ceiling leak mid-build, Jolene grabbing a bucket while the room’s plan falls apart.
- DRAMAWyatt delivers the line the whole cast has been waiting for at the Aldi family dinner: “Me and Chantel have decided to stay.”
House Allocations After Guest Bedroom Week
| House | Team |
|---|---|
| House One | Adam and Jolene |
| House Two | Chantel and Wyatt |
| House Three | Lisa and Rosco (moved from House Four) |
| House Four | Courtney and Sev (moved from House Three, week one winners) |
| House Five | Rick and Tayla |
First, the actual news: Sunday’s judging handed Courtney and Sev the win for guest bedroom week on 26 points, with Adam and Jolene second on 22, Chantel and Wyatt third on 20, Lisa and Rosco fourth on 19.5, and Rick and Tayla rounding out the week on 17. The prize was first pick of house for the rest of the season, and Courtney and Sev used it to swap out of House Three and into House Four, sending Lisa and Rosco the other way into House Three. Everyone else stayed put. It was, by Block standards, a remarkably polite outcome; even the judges seemed surprised nobody fought over it.
What the judges didn’t see coming was what happened after the cameras stopped rolling on judging night. Chantel and Wyatt were called out for spending more than $20,000 in undisclosed cash, a discovery that left Chantel telling Wyatt it felt like “everyone’s gaslighting me” and that she didn’t think she wanted to continue. By Monday morning, House Two sat empty. No contestants, no answer at the door, nothing but a message to the group chat: a photo of cannoli and a promise that they wouldn’t be on site that day either.
Production scrambled to manage it, with an on-call psychologist stepping in as a go-between and the build supervisors publicly owning the mistake as their own budgeting error rather than Chantel and Wyatt’s. Meanwhile the other four teams got their houses locked in for the season (Adam and Jolene staying in House One, Rick and Tayla keeping House Five, Chantel and Wyatt’s House Two held for them regardless) and were sent off to start bathrooms with a new, tighter target: forget Waterproof Wednesday, this year it’s Waterproof Tuesday. By evening, most teams were already behind that clock, and Adam and Jolene discovered a ceiling leak had beaten them to it, Jolene grabbing a bucket while the room’s waterproofing plan quietly fell apart.
The good news arrived over the season’s first Aldi family dinner, where Wyatt finally delivered the line the other four teams had spent all day waiting for: “Me and Chantel have decided to stay.” Whatever happens with the budget conversation from here, House Two is back in the game.
Moment of the day
“Me and Chantel have decided to stay.”
Wyatt, ending the longest day of season 22 so far with the only line anyone actually wanted to hear.
The judges’ generosity extended to a new toy for the winners too, with Domain switching on 3D room tours for every listing from today. Whether that’s enough to distract Courtney and Sev from planning a rooftop terrace, wellness area and, seriously, a periscope for House Four remains to be seen.
Tomorrow, it’s a race against the new waterproofing deadline for all five teams, with House Two trying to make up a full lost day and House One trying to explain a leak that arrived before the plumbing did.
