Day three of rumpus and laundry week doubles as the charity house’s final day, and if anyone hoped the community spirit from earlier in the week might carry all the way through to a clean happy ending, Wednesday proves them only half right. The charity build wraps in triumph. Everything back on The Block, less so.
Tools officially came down on the Ranch 2.0 units at 3pm, capping a four-day sprint that saw both apartments fully furnished, painted and styled with help from a small army of volunteers and sponsors, including a surprise $5,000 top-up from CSR and a full plumbing fit-out from the Reece Foundation. Unit 5, led by Maddy and Charlotte, took the win and split $10,000 between their team, while Adam and Jolene’s Unit 4 walked away with nothing but the satisfaction of a job well done, having already promised beforehand to donate any prize money back regardless of the result. Someone moves into one of the units tomorrow morning.
Back on site, the olive tree mystery finally cracked wide open, and in the funniest way possible: Adam turned out to be the culprit all along, returning Rick’s stolen tree with a handwritten apology note tucked into the pot. Rick’s side responded with a mock hip-hop tribute reel declaring “no one steals Rick’s olive tree.” Wyatt, not to be outdone on the theatrics front, splashed out on the $20,000-plus bath Tayla had originally ordered and cancelled, hauling it onto site with nowhere obvious to put it, only for a rival team to promptly start using it as a rubbish bin.
The good mood didn’t last. A dispute over the shared charity-house van reignited old tensions between the units well before tools down, and by evening a mix-up over a labourer’s job title exploded into the day’s ugliest exchange yet. Tayla confronted one of Jolene’s trades on site, Jolene stormed down to defend her crew, and the pair ended up face to face on the scaffold, Jolene telling her flatly she doesn’t “know her from a bar of soap.” Adam got dragged into the crossfire too, still catching heat over the tree.
Key Moments Today
- DRAMAAdam is exposed as the olive tree thief via his own love-note confession, prompting Rick’s team to film a mock “no one steals Rick’s olive tree” tribute.
- ARGUMENTA dispute over the shared charity-house van reignites the Unit 4 and Unit 5 rivalry just hours before tools down.
- RIDICULOUS PURCHASEWyatt snaps up the $20,000-plus bath Tayla had to cancel, then watches a rival team use it as a bin before he’s even found somewhere permanent to put it.
- ARGUMENTTayla and Jolene collide again over a labourer’s job title, ending with Jolene telling her she doesn’t “know her from a bar of soap.”
The charity house is done and dusted, the olive tree is finally home, and reveal day is closing in fast. Back for the fallout.
