The red team on The Block 2026 is South Australian couple Adam and Jolene Wagner, described by Channel Nine as “countrysiders” heading into their toughest test yet: swapping the farm for a construction site on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
Update (9 July 2026): Nine’s official trailer confirms Adam and Jolene as the red team. See all five teams in our team colours breakdown.
Who are Adam and Jolene?
The Wagners come from South Australia and, by Nine’s own description, can run a farm without breaking a sweat. The open question going into the season is whether that same grounded, hands-on energy translates to running a Block job site, where deadlines are measured in days rather than seasons.
The pair aren’t shy about how they’ll come across on screen. “We’re not classy, we swear too much, we’re rough diamonds,” Adam says in Nine’s cast introduction, setting expectations early for a team that looks likely to bring some of the season’s straight-talking, no-frills personality.
What to expect
Country teams have a mixed history on The Block: practical skills and a strong work ethic often count for a lot, but adjusting to a tightly packed, high-pressure metro building site is its own challenge. With Mount Eliza’s first-ever water view location and a premium build brief, Adam and Jolene’s farm-honed resourcefulness could be exactly what’s needed, or it could be a steep learning curve early on.
The Block 2026 premieres Sunday 2 August on Channel Nine and 9Now, confirmed in the official trailer released on 9 July. Full team profiles are on our The Block 2026 hub.
Note: names, team colour and the quoted details above are drawn from Nine’s official trailer and cast introduction. Some background details are drawn from secondary reporting and remain unconfirmed until Nine publishes official cast bios closer to the premiere. We’ll update this post when they land.
After guest bedroom week, Adam and Jolene stayed in House One.
House 1 Sold at Auction
Adam and Jolene’s house at 2 Mackillop Place, Mount Eliza sold at auction for $3,905,000, against a price guide of $3.6m to $3.9m, through Michelle Skoglund at Aqua Real Estate (0416 119 444). View the listing, photos and Matterport 3D tour on Domain →
See all five Block 2026 houses, agents and tours on our houses for sale hub.
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The Block 2026 season in review: Adam and Jolene
Adam and Jolene (red team, House 1) were the steadiest scorers of the season: first in the kitchen with a perfect 30, second in the family bathroom and second in the final week. They won their first room in episode 21 and banked $50,000 as winners of the Domain buyers jury challenge in episode 36. At auction, House 1 sold for $3,905,000, which is $455,000 over the $3,450,000 reserve. See every result on our auction results page.
Their season in scores
- Kitchen: 1st, 30/30 with the bonus gnome
- Family bathroom: 2nd, 24.5/30
- Main ensuite: 4th, 21/30
- Front yard and gardens final: 2nd, 26.5
The moments and feuds people talked about
- Budget discipline: the CommBank Better Budgeting Award twice, the second time in episode 25.
- The gnome: a joker gnome played in episode 29 and a secret gnome that won the week by three quarters of a point in episode 41.
- The wine cellar: a garage storeroom turned into a cellar with Cellar Creations in episode 39, and a row over a copied curved cellar next door.
- Snooping rows: the Adam Free Zone song in episode 28, the olive tree confession in episode 32 and the tools dispute with Wyatt in episode 33.
- The Freedom stoush: Jolene and Tayla clashing over tiles and plants (episodes 30 to 32).
- The toll gate: a Mount Eliza toll boom gate that cost $78 to build and earned $15 (episode 47), and a side-access argument the couple summed up as yin and yang.
Where they won and lost the season
They won on the kitchen, on consistency and on money, taking prize cash from the jury and the budgeting award. They lost ground on the ensuite, and on time, with an unpainted stairwell holding up the staircase install in episode 34.
Where to see the detail
- Kitchens: what each team used and bathrooms: scores and what was used
- Front yards and backyards supplier breakdowns
- The prize pool and auction results
- Every post tagged Adam and Jolene
