Forget the houses! A TV insider says The Block producers have been patting this yearโs contestants on the back for outdoing their fellow Nine stars from Married At First Sight by delivering the juiciest first week drama yet!
โIf this is how weโre going to be week one, I donโt know how weโre going to be week 12,โ admits Leah, 32, who is already embroiled in a feud with fellow Blockhead Steph, 27.
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The drama has already begun for Blockheads Leah and Ash.
(Image: Nine)Kristy, 34, confirms to Womanโs Day there are โa few hiccups along the wayโ that caused her to have โmoments of wanting to leaveโ.
We hear that instant friends Kristy and Leah have labelled Steph โsmart and sneakyโ as a catfight kicked off at the start of this yearโs competition.
โSteph did everything calculated,โ Kristy tells Womanโs Day.
โI did have my reservations [with her] in the beginning,โ agrees Leah. โI prefer everything to be upfront and I wasnโt quite getting that from her, so I did find it really difficult.โ
โThen she was sort of coming off as quite competitive, so naturally in The Block environment, you just start questioning everything. There were a couple of things that I thought, โOh, I think she might be playing a game and being a bit sneaky.'โ
Leah says one of Stephโs strategies was trying to psych her out!
โShe would know things about my room before I even shared them, but sheโd say things like, โOh, so youโre doing Venetian plastering. Um, did you know you canโt get that done in a short amount of time? It takes 10 days.โ
โIt just came off in a rude way,โ Leah shares.
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โSteph did everything calculated.โ
(Image: Nine)Steph, though, says the other Blockheads feel threatened by her architecture background.
โI deflected on the show and said, โOh, no, I donโt think people would be intimidated by me because weโre just young kids,โ but I grew to know that people were definitely intimidated by me,โ she tells Womanโs Day.
Steph insists she had more important things to focus on than the drama with her castmates โ like renovating!
โWe always felt like we were behind the eight ball, that some people who were in front had time to, like, gossip!โ
โWe were just like, โWhat?'โ says Steph, who also battles with her builders as the competition goes on โ and ends up sending them packing!
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Kirsty and Brett are hoping to keep The Block entertaining.
(Image: Nine)Unlike Steph, Kristy says she made it her mission to drum up drama on Charming Street.
โI could see things play out prior to them happening, so I would kind of like drop a bomb and run away,โ she says.
โI was just entertaining myself and trying to make it as fun as possible.โ
And her husband Brett is here for it! โOther seasons Iโve watched Iโve found rather boring, so if bitchiness comes across, great,โ says Brett, 34.
โIโd rather watch that than some of the more simple seasons Iโve seen in the past.โ
โLook at last season, the biggest thing to happen was tiles not showing up! Thatโs boring,โ he says.