Sara does her block
AIR TURNS BLUE AS REALITY TV IDENTITY WALKS OFF SET WITH FORTHRIGHT ADVICE FOR PRODUCERS
NOBODY can say she didn’t warn us.
Block contestant Sara made repeated threats during the past week of the show that she’d “walk off The Block” if she and husband Hayden didn’t win this week’s bathroom challenge.
They’d invested an eye-watering $70k-plus into their room – including an eyecatching brass bathtub – but money can’t buy taste, and the judges awarded them a lastplace score of 22 during Sunday night’s room reveal.
There were attempts to soften the blow.
Host Scott Cam relayed that judge Shaynna Blaze had offered to mentor the pair with some much-needed styling advice, an unprecedented move on The Block.
After approval from their fellow competitors, they begrudgingly accepted the offer.
It was after judging was finished that the real drama began.
The couple were shown on set getting microphoned up for a post-judging interview, when Sara warned the crew: “Make it quick — I’m not coming back.”
Then the screaming started — all directed at one of the show’s producers.
“Again, last? Even after everything, last. You’ve got to be kidding me. It’s f**ked, it’s f**king embarrassing now,” she yelled.
Hayden, heavy-lidded and clutching a can of beer, appeared more resigned.
“Three weeks in a row, you know?” he sighed wearily.
“I don’t want to do this anymore. I’m going mate! I’m over it! I’m not coming back,” Sara said. “I don’t want to do this if we’re going to constantly come last and be embarrassed on national TV — why would I want to be here?”
With that, Sara left the building — but cameras followed as she sat in the gutter outside the studio, the producer consoling her. “We’re being made to look like absolute fools. That bathroom did not deserve to be last. Did not deserve to be last. I’m f**king walking. I don’t want to do this anymore,” she threatened as Hayden followed her out of the building.
“Guys, come on … don’t do it,” the producer pleaded.
“You know what? This was the biggest mistake of my entire life,” Sara told him.
So do Sara and Hayden actually follow through with their promise?
In a teaser for this week’s episodes, we see they do return to The Block – but perhaps not to stay.
“I can’t do it to myself mentally, so … I will have to call it quits,” Sara tells the cameras.
The Block airs 7.30pm Monday to Wednesday and 7pm Sundays on Nine.