The Block is notorious for making or breaking relationships.
Since its debut way back in 2003, the exhausting reality show has put its contestants to the ultimate test.
While some rose to the challenge throughout difficult conditions – lack of sleep, high-pressure situations and fierce competition to the win the ultimate prize – others ultimately floundered.
With the stress causing their relationships to crack beyond repair, many Blockheads over the years have called it quits for good.
Among the victims of The Block’s love curse are the fiery Dea and Darren Jolly as well as Tinder couple Andrew Simmons and Whitney Nolan.
Scroll on to see which of your other favourites have split following their star turn on The Block!
Tess and Luke
Tess and Luke
Newlyweds Tess Cattana and Luke Struber chose The Block as their honeymoon, but as the show moved into its final weeks, the Cairns couple were starting to think they should’ve chosen a beach holiday instead! At one point, the couple hit breaking point, with Tess and Luke dubbing The Block “the honeymoon from hell”, and saying the show is slowly killing them – and their marriage.
Luckily the couple made it through, to win no less! And, are still going strong.
Shaynna Blaze Steve Vaughan
Shaynna Blaze and Steve Vaughan
The sudden split of feisty judge Shaynna Blaze and her personal trainer husband of 18 years, Steve Vaughan, sent shock waves through the industry.
Shaynna publicly announced the couple’s split via Instagram, saying “Sometimes in life, our paths change directions.” Shortly after, Steve was revealed to be seeing Melbourne mother Andi Hall.
Whitney and Andrew
Whitney and Andrew
Dubbed “The Sweethearts” on the show, Andrew Simmons and Whitney Nolan broke up shortly after the series went to air in 2015. The Victorian couple, who met on Tinder, told Woman’s Day they had decided to split ways before they made it to the finale.
“There were tears,” Whitney said at the time.
Dea and Daz
Dea and Daz
Their fights became legendary on two seasons of The Block, but it seems Dea and Darren’s constant bickering became too much for the couple, with Woman’s Day revealing their split in 2019. Dea, who runs a business and shares two children with her ex, said she had been left “blindsided and devastated by Darren’s actions.”
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Steve and Richard
Steve and Richard
After earning nothing when their controversial “disco-styled” home failed to reach the reserve, season two’s Steven Starkey and Richard Sterry hit a rocky path and decided to go their separate ways.
Steve and Chantelle
Steve and Chantelle
The country – and their fellow Blockheads – were in shock when underdogs Steve O’Donnell and Chantelle Ford won the 2014 Fans v Faves series. But not even winning $736,000 could save their relationship, with the Melbourne couple announcing their split 14 months after the show ended.
Madi and Jarrod
Madi and Jarrod
Despite fielding split rumours for months, 2013 couple Madi and Jarrod Coppock announced their divorce the year after they took home $291,000 in profit for their Melbourne apartment. Carpenter Jarrod was engaged to be married to his new partner in February last year, while Madi remarried in 2015 and gave birth to a daughter in July 2017.
