Sunday night’s Kitchen reveals on The Block came with a generous side serving of drama, thanks to a fiery exchange between friends-turned-frenemies, Tayla and Brisbane besties Courtney and Sev.
On the episode, Tayla called a body corporate to ask everyone to agree to work two extra hours in order to finish their kitchens, citing that Rick was struggling to keep up with his injury. This request wasn’t warmly received by any of the teams — other than Lisa and Rosco. As Tayla brought up Rick’s injury, Sev said she didn’t like her playing that ‘card’.
Tayla hit back with: “You had Tim come and paint your whole f**king kitchen, so that’s not a fair card either.” ICYMI: Rick filmed a British Paints employee, Tim, painting the women’s wall — a big no-no in The Block’s rulebook.
To this, Sev and Courtney denied any wrongdoing. A clip played showing that the British Paints moment was actually permitted by Scott Cam as the painters were rectifying an earlier mistake, as the women told Chattr previously (read the breakdown here). The women added that Tayla had multiple British Paints employees painting for her the previous week, a claim which was backed up by some sneaky footage obtained. Awkies!
Back at the body corporate, the teams voted against Tayla’s idea to extend the hours in an awkward moment. Sev and Courtney reflected on their war of words with Tayla in an exclusive interview with Chattr.
“She just went in and she started just shooting left, right and center. She laid a couple of guilt trips on us about her dad,” Sev said.
“This is a competition. As much as we love you as a beautiful person, and you are so close to us — call it outside of this Block bubble — but to come at us that aggressively… saying that I’ve got footage of Tim painting, it wasn’t the best delivery of trying to get us on side.”
Courtney admitted that in hindsight, they wish they had agreed to more hours, but they didn’t appreciate Tayla’s approach. “It came across as an attack instead of a conversation,” she told Chattr.
Courtney and Sev reveal how the moment affected their friendship on The Block
Courtney and Sev told Chattr they were shocked by Tayla’s treatment of them on Sunday night since they had considered her and her dad their closest friends on the show.
“Sev and I were really disappointed because Rick and Tayla were our best friends on the show. We had their back time after time again,” Courtney told Chattr. “It really upset us that they were throwing us under the bus when they had two painters in their house painting their room [the week before].”
Sev could understand the miscommunication around the British Paints incident, but was still shocked Tayla came at them so hard. “Part of us tried to sort of forgive her in that instance, but just how reactive they were to that moment really showed us that they were in competition mode and they were sort of willing to put our friendship aside,” she said.
“We’ve helped them a lot. For them to turn on us really hurt deeply.”
The Block 2026 airs Sunday — Wednesday on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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