Artificially propped up for years.
But Cam is not leaving The Block juggernaut just yet.
He filmed teasers for the 2026 season to be held in Mt. Eliza which screened as part of the 2025 Upfront.
More to the point, Cam told about journos watching Saturday’s auction being filmed he was returning to the show.
Anything speculating otherwise is false.
Adrian Portelli roasts Block auction failures: ‘Nobody wants them’
Stop, stop, they’re already dead. Adrian Portelli’s Block break-up continues, as the billionaire gloats online about this year’s auction failures.
“But anyway … I still have The Block houses, and it’s clear that nobody really wants to pay for them. But I’ve still got five from last year down at Phillip Island, so I am giving them away through LMCT Plus. You don’t have to pay for them – clearly people don’t want to buy these houses,” he said.
In fact, Portelli had struggled to sell the five Phillip Island properties he purchased for a combined $15.03 million last year. Back in June, he posted on Instagram begging his followers to take the properties off his hands.
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Portelli couldn’t even give them away either. The winner of his massive (questionably legal) draw in December chose to take a cash prize instead of the five houses. The cash prize was about half of what Portelli paid for The Block houses.
Billionaire Adrian Portelli turns on The Block: ‘Less than one per cent’
Adrian Portelli was Nine’s darling after snapping up every home on The Block last year. Now, the billionaire has turned on the network as the feud gets messy.
“They’re completely out of touch and unrealistic,” Portelli said.
“The Block pitches themselves as a good opportunity for families to buy these famous homes, but these houses aren’t built for everyday Australians. They are meant for the super-rich.
“Who is going to go and bid on them when they know they’re competing against billionaires? These houses aren’t targeted at everyday Aussies. They’re multimillion-dollar homes.”
Portelli revealed the real reason he turned his back on The Block was that they knocked back a pitch for “My Reno Rules”, which has since been picked up by Channel 7.
“It was initially going to be with Channel 9, but they lost interest,” Portelli said.
“So I said, ‘All right, if you don’t see the potential in it, I’ll take it somewhere else’. I went to Channel 7, pitched it within five minutes, and told them, ‘If you want it, great; if not, see you later. ’ And sure enough, twenty minutes later they rang me up and said, ‘let’s do it.’ That’s the story behind that.”
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A good property for The Block perhaps?
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-unitblock-nsw-bondi-149178264
could be cool to see them go back to their roots of renovating a block of flats in Bondi
A friend of mine lives in Daylesford and his neighbour was involved in the auction for one of the three houses that sold on the day. I apologise if this has already been mentioned but apparently when the remaining two houses sell the contestants will only receive 50% rather than the normal 100%. This is because Ch9 will take the other 50% because it won’t be shown on tv.
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I got the impression Nine moved away from doing NSW properties in favour of VIC ones because property planning approvals were much easier down there?
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Wasn’t just the approvals from memory either - the show brings chaos (trying to build on the scale The Block does that, plus the fan attraction) and not every Council is up for that.
“You have changed our lives forever,” they wrote, revealing their little girl’s name is Ilaria Ottavio.
I doubt Nine are too keen on the ongoing Portelli controversies in the press.
Zero sympathy for 9. Play stupid games with selected people and guess what, win stupid prizes.
I knew this would backfire, the show became a joke with the likes of Portelli rocking up in his high end cars to these auctions, the guy that owns that hat company (don’t see much cash behind that business to buy a whole bunch of million dollar properties), then we had the Derrimut gym owner turn up at the Auctions, who is now being chased by the ATO.
Block can still go back to its roots and maintain the ratings. Just get rid of all these side shows.
But can they?
Cynical observation but the show has built itself as being the show it is - exclusive properties that excitable (usually bogan) couples can flip and earn hundreds of thousands… even a million dollars, with houses featuring mod-cons and goodies that show off higher end sponsors to aspirational viewers.
They can’t go back to selling achievable middle class houses and flats (whatever that may look like in the current housing market) because the show loses it’s selling point to potential contestants, viewers and most importantly sponsors, yet at the same time its current trajectory is clearly unsustainable.
I’m gonna make a big and slightly cynical call - the block will be axed by the end of the decade.
Let’s come back to this in 2030?
I don’t know if saying a show will be axed after around 30 seasons is a big call.
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Haha … sorry for the dramatics.
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“We’ve been offered an incredible new opportunity within the police, which means it’s time for a new chapter, and we’ll be moving back home to our family house in Yanchep in Perth,” they shared on Instagram, accompanied by professional family photos.
Records show Britt and Taz purchased their Yanchep property back in 2017 for a modest $217,000.
According to Sunday Herald Sun’s Fiona Byrne, work is well underway to prepare the Mount Eliza site for the next season. It is located with an old expansive subdivision on Old Mornington Road, known as Mackillop Place. Nine purchased six sites within what is described as a gated community for a rumoured $11 million, with the other four sites remaining on the market.
