Rick and Tayla

Outdoor pool week has a simple order of operations: build the deck, fit the glass, put up the fence, fill the pool. By Thursday morning, with the cars still parked on site after the circus and outdoor pool week heading for a Sunday reveal, the Blockheads hadn’t started step one. “Not one bit of decking…

Nobody asked for Hamish Blake in very short red shorts, but with outdoor pool week three days old, the decks running late and the budgets running thin, The Block decided the best use of its Blockheads was an athletics carnival. Cue the Wide World of Sports theme, a school oval at Toorak College, and a…

Nine weeks of staring at skirting boards, and the Blockheads finally get to stare at dirt. Week ten kicks off the outdoor terraces and pools, with roughly 100 square metres to play with for the uptown houses and double that for Houses Four and Five, plus an alarming amount of decking to screw down by…

Nine weeks in, three to go, and the last interior reveal of the season was a double: a kids’ bedroom and a redo room for every team, with $20,000 in room prizes on offer and a further $30,000 from Arnott’s for anyone brave enough to chase three perfect tens. By the time the judges finished,…

The results are in from the Domain Buyers Jury and Listing Challenge, and for the first time all season, House One are the ones the rest of the cast has to watch. Adam and Jolene have taken out the $50,000 budget boost, the cover of Domain magazine and an original Manyung Gallery painting, after more…

Wednesday of Domain week opened with a photo shoot nobody felt ready for, a $110,000 prize pool nobody could quite believe, and a retaliatory fridge note nobody was willing to own up to first. Between the Domain listing photographers, a Matterport crew building 3D virtual tours, and a live plumbing emergency, it was the kind…

Who won the Domain challenge on The Block 2026? House One, Adam and Jolene, took out the $50,000 Domain Buyers Jury prize. This recap covers the kickoff; the vote and full ranking are in the episode 36 recap. Domain week has landed on Domain‘s favourite reality show, which means one thing above all else: every…

Reveal night was supposed to happen on Sunday. It didn’t, because apparently even Channel Nine’s own scheduling gets swept up in rumpus and laundry week chaos, so Blockheads had to wait an extra day to find out who actually built a room worth a drink and who built a room you can’t even put a…