The moment THAT STOPPED THE BLOCK
If there’s one thing Scott Cam knows, it’s The Block. He’s worked on 11 seasons of the hit Channel Nine show, and after all that time you’d think he’d seen everything. But, as he reveals to New Idea, this season delivered many firsts. In an upcoming episode, things get so out of hand the 54-year-old is forced to step in on behalf of the whole crew and reprimand one couple. ‘There’s a serious situation that occurs on week five or six. It’s never happened on
SCOTT CAM REVEALS THE MOST EXPLOSIVE EVENT OF THE SEASON
The Block before,’ he reveals. ‘I vent, on behalf of the crew, the cameraman and the other contestants. I really unleash on one couple – in a big way.’
While he doesn’t go into specific detail about the incident, an insider reveals the couple in question threaten to leave the show for good.
‘The couple threaten to walk off the show, that’s a first,’ the insider reveals.
‘They are wasting their opportunity on The Block and it’s incredibly disrespectful to everyone involved.’
With such a serious situation on his hands, Scott divulges he
had no choice but to lay down the law on camera. ‘It’s a never-before-seen situation. I don’t lose my temper, but I certainly... it’s very full-on. It wasn’t done for TV, but it’s ended up being on there,’ he explains. ‘It was actually legitimate – like “this is how it’s going to go down”. It didn’t get physical, but it was about my rules and what we expect. You could have heard a pin drop. They [the contestants] were all terrified. ‘It needed to be dealt with ongoing and it’s been a really exhausting series for everybody. ‘We’ve got an extremely competitive bunch this season – probably the most competitive we’ve ever had. They’ve treated it as a competition,’ Scott reveals. ‘In the past, there have been lots of people wanting to make friends and win some money, but they forget about the competition side of things. But these guys are here to make money and win, so that makes for some tension.’ Despite all eyes on this current season of The Block, the site for next season – The Gatwick Hotel in St Kilda – has been receiving a lot of buzz, but it hasn’t all been positive.
‘Something I’d like to point out about The Gatwick is that there’s been some stuff on Facebook about the residents that lived there,’ he explains.
‘We worked with community services and the Victorian Government, and we housed every resident into new housing. We made sure everybody has got somewhere to live, so I would appreciate it if we got that out there.’
Scotty adds: ‘People are saying we turfed them out – we would never do that! We didn’t even kick them out anyway – the women that owned it sold the joint, so whoever bought the place would never have done what we did. We rehoused everyone.’
‘It didn’t get physical, but... you could have heard a pin drop. They were all terrified’