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The Block 2025 contestant Alicia has emerged as the latest ‘villain’ on the show, after acting cagey towards fan-favourites Britt and Taz. Alicia and her husband, Sonny, recently told Britt and Taz that they didn’t deserve to win the most recent room reveal, and accused the pair of breaking the rules by working ahead on their deck.

However, former Big Brother winner Benjamin Norris has come forward to defend Alicia’s character, saying she’s a “wonderful person”.

“I’ve actually met and now know Alicia. She is a wonderful person. I get that people react to what they [see] on TV, but believe me when I say Alicia is kind, funny, thoughtful, generous and [a] great person to know,” Benjamin wrote on a popular Facebook group.

“I say this with love guys, you are watching a constructed reality show. You don’t know these people. They are reduced to moments that are designed to polarise you. I guarantee you all, Alicia is someone you would like. They edit out some people’s poor behaviour and make the others look like meanies. It’s just how these shows are made.”

When a fan pointed out that Alicia claimed she never opened her mouth to say anything bad, she was caught when producers found footage of her whipping out some “snide remarks”, Benjamin replied. “It’s a competition-based reality show. You don’t remember everything you say. Plus I think they were just speaking their truth at the time.”

The Block fans react to Alicia’s behaviour

Benjamin’s declaration about Alicia received hundreds of comments on Facebook, with the majority of them disagreeing with his opinion.

“You can’t edit out what comes out of her mouth. You are blinded because you’ve met her. She is a piece of work. Are they editing out the bits where Britt and Taz are nasty? No, because they are not those type of people. They don’t have it in them,” one fan fired back.

“Well, she has you fooled! Keep going by her rules and doing what she says and you will be fine [with] her! But if you say the word ‘no’, disagree with her or don’t follow her rules, watch your back! She will turn on you and it won’t be fun,” a third chimed in.

However, there were some fans who came to bat for Alicia and supported Benjamin’s comments.

“Honestly, I really like her on The Block! There are no contestants that I don’t like this season. Humans have flaws… that doesn’t make them bad people,” a fan pointed out.

“I honestly don’t see what all the fuss is about. I see pretty much everything Alicia says as ‘tongue in cheek’. If I had consistently produced quality rooms compared to those that won, I’d be bloody fuming. And we know the producers incite the contestants to give ‘salty’ content and create the drama,” another remarked.

“It’s all scripted by the producers of the show to create more drama so more people will watch. It’s a numbers game, pure and simple now. All reality shows are the same. Whoever gets the most viewers win,” a third wrote.

“I absolutely love her energy and her laugh. You can tell she is fiercely loyal and an amazing mum and wife… I don’t think she means any harm whatsoever,” another said. “It’s such unrealistic pressure and I feel for all of them.”

Now that Britt and Taz have also won the baking challenge on The Block, the animosity amongst the contestants is surely going to grow. Fingers crossed there aren’t any other snide comments from Alicia.

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Britt and Taz have continued their winning streak on The Block, after winning the Bake Off challenge in the most recent episode, with their Tim Tam cinnamon scrolls (or doughnuts, depending on how you looked at them) winning over the hearts and taste buds of the Country Women’s Association judges.

If you’re a little confused, yes, The Block contestants had to take a break from planning and building houses to bake a sweet treat that featured an Arnotts biscuit, with the winner earning $10,000. The challenge aimed to give the teams a break from the renovations and a chance to use their brand new kitchens.

With some formidable judges ahead of them, Britt and Taz may not have necessarily had the best-looking sweet treat on arrival, but the taste of their Tim Tam Smash scrolls won over the three judges Lorraine, Charlotte and Peta.

The Block’s Britt and Taz face more wrath from co-stars

While the CWA ladies were left satisfied, Britt and Taz’s co-stars were less than happy for the pair taking out another challenge, after a string of successes this week. Notably, no one clapped or congratulated them and, well, their former BFFs Sonny and Alicia looked less than impressed, something fans quickly picked up on.

While their co-stars may not have been happy for Britt and Taz, The Block fans certainly were.

“So glad they won. This will potentially set the others off on another hissy fit,” one person commented on a Facebook thread on a Block fanpage, with another fan agreeing, “Did you see the other contestants’ faces? Priceless.”

“How pissed off did Alicia look,” another said, with others also pointing out she looked “sour”.

Some fans couldn’t help but laugh at the commentary from the three judges when it came to Alicia’s lemon-slice, with Lorraine savagely saying it didn’t need “much talent” to make it.

“The judging was gold,” one person commended.

“I still keep giggling about ‘making a lemon slice doesn’t require much talent’ quote,” another said, with someone agreeing, “Best quote of the season.”

And Blockheads were a bit baffled by the whole baking competition in general. “Imagine a baking show that has a segment on building a house. ‘Okay, Nana, now here’s a bonus round, so let’s start installing roof insulation,” one person joked on Reddit.

What is going on between The Block’s Taz and Britt and their co-stars?

Alicia and Britt bonded early in the season, but cracks started to show after Britt left Alicia out of a shopping trip and struck up a friendship with 2023 winner Steph Ottavio. Things then reached a boiling point earlier this week, when Britt and Taz got a head start on their deck, prompting Sonny and Alicia to call a Body Corp meeting to confront them.

The Body Corp debate got messy, and the two couples stayed behind to hash it out. While Sonny apologised for making snide comments about Britt and Taz’s back-of-house win, Alicia denied making any digs.

When asked by Chattr where their relationship stood with Sonny and Alicia now, Britt and Taz’s answer didn’t seem like there was any love lost between the teams.

“We’re all civil. We’re all adults,” Taz explained, adding that there wasn’t any outright animosity. “Everyone is civil, but from The Block, and even extending on, we just sort of stay in our own lane.”

When asked about the lack of support from their co-stars, the couple credited their strong relationship for getting them through the trying times.

“That’s one of the best things to come out of The Block, just how good our relationship was during and also after, because we just could handle anything,” Taz said.

“But, we were never out to get anyone or to stitch people up. We were just there to build this bloody house, and hopefully set the kids up afterwards. So the fact that our relationship stood this test quite easily, like, we didn’t fight, we just got on with it.”

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After taking out the back-of-house room reveal, Britt and Taz were treated to a romantic overnight getaway by The Block. But while they were away, some of the cast used the Chump’s Dinner as a chance to speculate that the couple didn’t deserve the win.

Later in the week, Britt came across Han struggling to complete her shed and offered to help her by letting her use their tradies. However, Taz pointed out that Han and Can had slammed them earlier in the week over their win — and the fact that they’d worked ahead on their decks — but decided to be the bigger person and help out the girls.

But, while Sonny and Alicia confronted Britt and Taz to their faces, Han and Can only rinsed the winning couple behind their backs, so how did they know what was said?

During an interview with Chattr, Britt revealed that it was Emma who came to her and told her about what Han and Can said at the Chump’s dinner.

“We really copped the Body Corp, like the brunt of it… We were just like attacked,” Taz explained, referring to a meeting called by Sonny and Alicia the following day over them working ahead on their decks, which was against the rules.

“Emma wasn’t there. Emma was doing something,” he added.

“She was out, she came out afterwards, and she said, ‘Look, are you okay?’ And gave me a big cuddle. And she was like, I want you to know that we didn’t all, like, it wasn’t like a targeted thing about you last night [at the dinner],” Britt explained.

“We didn’t all feel the same way, like us and the boys didn’t really say much or do much, but it was mainly house two and house four who had something to say.”

“So that’s how we sort of knew that they weren’t saying the nicest things about us at the dinner.”

Why did Britt and Taz decide to help our Han and Can?

As viewers saw in Wednesday’s episode of The Block, Taz admitted he was hesitant to help the girls after hearing what they’d said about them at the Chump’s Dinner.

“That’s where I was coming from, because we knew we absolutely got torn to shreds,” Taz explained.

However, he said that after listening to Britt’s point of view, he knew that helping Han and Can was the right thing to do.

“Britt was like, it’s not who we are, we help people even when they don’t like us, or don’t want us to help. That’s what we do. And that sort of brought me back down when Britt said that, I was like, ‘You know what? That’s exactly right.”

Britt added that, for her, it was always about staying true to herself.

“Although you know they might not have said the nicest things about us or whatever, that you know, we don’t have to carry ourselves in that same manner.”

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Britt and Taz had the last laugh on The Block, after adding an extra $30,000 to their budget this week, thanks to two challenge wins and a triumphant room reveal, which they were criticised by other contestants over.

One of those challenge wins was for having the most energy-efficient house, but the other contestants didn’t think Britt and Taz were deserving of the win.

“There’s no way in hell they should have won that, at all, because their whole house has underfloor heating, which is not energy efficient,” Mat said in a producer-led interview.

However, according to Taz, that’s exactly why they won.

“The underfloor heating actually worked in our favour, curing it, because when you have the underfloor heating, you’re not running your [reverse cycle] air cons [on heat] all the time,” Taz told Chattr.

“So you don’t really need, and if you’ve chucked a fire on with the underfloor heating, it’s like, your house is so toasty. But everyone else here — we walk through the houses — and you have to have the aircon blasting [on heat] all the time, whereas with us, you actually don’t need to run aircon. So you can just run underfloor heating, which is a lot cheaper, a lot more sustainable than running the aircon all the time.”

Britt and Taz were working towards winning the energy efficiency challenge all season

While Britt and Taz’s energy efficiency challenge win might have come as a surprise to the other Blockheads, the couple have been making smart, sustainable choices all season long.

“Scotty Cam came up to us and said it looks like you were the only ones that actually gave any thought to the sustainability challenge. We’ve been harping on about that since before we started,” Taz told Chattr.

“We’ve harped on about this since day one. We have had our eyes on that prize, making sure that we have the most sustainable house on The Block,” Britt added.

Of course, Britt and Taz’s kitchen was stacked with energy-efficient appliances; however, their approach has been a full-season strategy.

“Episode Two, I was digging up a fruit orchard to try and replant them,” Taz explained. “We just harped on every week about sustainability, because that’s what we’re about, especially where we’re from, and that as well. So we didn’t actually think it was going to be a contest, but yeah, I think Scotty reminding us that was good as well. He’s like, ‘Yeah, you guys are the only ones that really put up a chat about it.'”

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Week 10 of The Block 2025 has seen tensions flare between former besties Sonny and Alicia and Britt and Taz, so where does their friendship stand now?

Alicia and Britt bonded early in the season, but cracks started to show after Britt left Alicia out of a shopping trip and struck up a friendship with 2023 winner Steph Ottavio. Things then reached a boiling point this week when Britt and Taz got a head start on their deck, prompting Sonny and Alicia to call a Body Corp meeting to confront them.

The Body Corp turned into a bit of a showdown, and the two couples stayed behind to hash it out. While Sonny apologised for making snide comments about Britt and Taz’s back-of-house win, Alicia stood firm, flatly denying she’d ever made any digs.

When asked by Chattr where their relationship stood with Sonny and Alicia now, Britt and Taz’s answer didn’t seem like there was any love lost between the teams.

“We’re all civil. We’re all adults,” Taz explained, adding that there wasn’t any outright animosity.

“Gone are the previous years where people just absolutely hated each other and wouldn’t be in the same room as each other, but, like, it’s none of that this year. It’s just everyone is civil, but from The Block, and even extending on, we just sort of stay in our own lane.”

Did the feud with the other contestants bring Britt and Taz closer?

Britt and Taz enjoyed a pretty harmonious run in the first half of The Block 2025, but things shifted in Week 9 when they worked ahead on their decks and scored the back-of-house room reveal win, sparking criticism from the other contestants.

While the married couple told Chattr that it was disappointing that none of the other teams rallied behind them to celebrate their win, they said the silver lining was that their strong relationship meant they had the support of one another.

“That’s one of the best things to come out of The Block, just how good our relationship was during and also after, because we just could handle anything.

“But, we were never out to get anyone or to stitch people up. We were just there to build this bloody house, and hopefully set the kids up afterwards. So the fact that our relationship stood this test quite easily, like, we didn’t fight, we just got on with it.

“At the end of every day, it was just so good going back to just being it to us. And that follows into the post-show as well. We never attacked each other, we never called each other out, we just worked as a team, and got the job done.

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