Well folks, it’s almost time for the 2026 season of The Block, which means we’re ever-so-close to watching a batch of hard-working contestants as they renovate and decorate some truly beautiful homes — with a welcome dose of drama, for good measure.
This year’s season of the reno reality show, which marks its 22nd overall, arrives with a few surprises up its sleeve. For starters, it marks the first time in The Block history that the homes have ocean views, with the contestants overtaking a plot of land right by the water in Mount Eliza along Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
While the beautiful vistas are a selling point in their own right, The Block’s 2026 season also presents another series-first; that all the contestants will be living under the same roof for the duration of the build. That’s right, the five couples will all share a living space in a Big Brother-style twist that’s sure to stir some off-site drama for the contestants and fans.
With that in mind, Chattr swung by The Block’s 2026 site to get the lowdown on that precarious living situation, just ahead of the season’s premiere on August 2. Wondering what goes on when a bunch of highly stressed renovators are crammed under the same roof? Well, we asked the season 22 castmates that very question!
Read on for what each team on The Block’s 2026 season said of all the antics that went down in the sharehouse, from general untidiness to bonafide housemate horror stories.
Chantel and Wyatt
Gold Coast couple Chantel and Wyatt, who arrived on The Block with hands-on experience in construction and carpentry, said this season’s sharehouse twist actually helped to build connections amongst the cast. “It brought everyone closer because everyone’s forced to live together,” Wyatt, a 30-year-old personal trainer, told Chattr.
Agreeing with that sentiment, Chantel — the daughter of a builder who has assisted in construction — said producers might’ve hoped there had been more drama in the sharehouse than there actually was, though she did have one shocking moment.
“I feel like living in the sharehouse — maybe it didn’t cause as much drama as they would have liked,” she told us. “I did fall down the stairs at the sharehouse though.”
Adam and Jolene
Married couple Adam and Jolene were a little less diplomatic when chatting about their sharehouse experience on The Block. For his part, Adam — a farmer and carpenter — admitted to Chattr that living in close quarters meant “someone was going to p** you off every now and then.”
Jolene, who has experience in property management, agreed with her hubby and revealed the one thing that irked her about living with her castmates. “Of course things are going to happen. Like, not everybody empties their bin,” she told us. If you think that’s gross, that’s not even the half of it…
Rick and Tayla
Father-daughter duo Rick and Tayla were even more forthright in calling out their fellow housemates’ living behaviours, with Tayla telling Chattr that even their own toilets weren’t sacred. “People would use my toilet from another team,” she told us — though she stopped short of naming names.
Going even further, Rick, a residential property developer, lamented just how dirty the living space became. “[We lived] with really dirty people, really untidy people,” he said, going as far as calling them “f**king pigs.” Tell us how you really feel, Rick!
Lisa and Rosco
Also taking issue with the cleanliness of the sharehouse was married Perth couple Lisa and Rosco, who told us the exact source of the dirtiness mentioned by Rick. Those with sensitive noses, you’ve been warned.
“There was a time when I went upstairs and the whole upstairs floor just smelled like poo. There was someone in the house who didn’t believe in toilet spray or any of those things, and like the whole top level would just literally stink like actual sh*t,” Lisa told Chattr. “I could have died, it makes me want to vomit.”
Only adding to the smell, Rosco revealed, was the fact that “the window in the toilet was also always locked.” Yikes!
While Rosco wasn’t a fan of the toilet situation, he also told us that he was part of the problem. “What was really good is everyone thought it was just one person stinking up the place the whole time, but sometimes I did it too for a laugh,” he said.
Courtney and Sev
The smell evidently made its way to besties Courtney and Sev, a Brisbane construction and interior design duo who got wind of the sharehouse antics even though they had a room somewhat separate to the rest of the castmates. “Lord, do I know some stories,” Sev told us. “There were four couples sharing one bathroom!”
Beyond the seemingly dishevelled state of the sharehouse, Courtney revealed there were some wholesome moments that came from living so close together, including some shared meals. “Wyatt would make me breakfast every day and it tasted like glue because he does macros, and I don’t know what they are exactly,” Courtney told Chattr. “But now I’m addicted to it, so I ate this disgusting glue during the show.”
So there you have it, a small insight into how the 2026 The Block contestants dealt with the history-making sharehouse twist. We’ll have to wait and see whether the castmates left out any details when the season kicks off.
The Block 2026 premieres on August 2 on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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