The Block’s Scott Cam addresses the show’s biggest SCANDAL as rightful ownership of the 2020 winners’ prize money comes into question
Queenslanders Jimmy and Tam Wilkins won The Block this year, and took home a record $1.06 million in prize money.
But now the rightful ownership of the large sum appears to have been thrown into question.
A Current Affair have teased an explosive expose into the Nine renovation show’s biggest scandal in its 17-year history – to air on Tuesday.
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The Block’s Scott Cam (pictured) is due to address the show’s biggest SCANDAL on Tuesday’s episode of A Current Affair as the rightful ownership of the 2020 winners’ prize money gets called into question
The 2020 season’s monster auction day – which aired in November – turned out to be the biggest in the show’s 16-season history, with all five luxury Brighton houses soaring more than $460,000 above reserve.
The investigative program claims the show faced a ‘bombshell no one saw coming when the cameras stopped rolling’.
An excerpt of their interview was shown with host Scott Cam, who said: ‘Stuff happens, and it’s happened to us… It’s about human nature, it’s about honestly. I suppose.’
Winners are grinners: Queenslanders Jimmy and Tam Wilkins won The Block this year, and took home a record $1.06 million in prize money
Drama! The investigative program claims the show faced a ‘bombshell no one saw coming when the cameras stopped rolling’, while host Scott Cam appears uncomfortable when discussing the prize money
ACA reporter Alison Piotrowski posed the question to Scott: ‘What happens with the prize money now?’
Scott looked uncomfortable with the question as he shuffled in his chair with pursed lips.
Winners Jimmy and Tam’s renovated 1950s house at 360A New Street, Brighton, fetched $4.256 million on the day, smashing its auction reserve of $3.29 million by a whopping $966,000.
The rookie renovators then jumped to a seven-figure sum, as the extra $100,000 in prize money was thrown in on top.
The mystery buyer who snapped up Jimmy and Tam’s winning property on The Block was cyber security specialist Emese Fajk, 28.
Sold! The mystery buyer who snapped up Jimmy and Tam’s winning property on The Block was cyber security specialist Emese Fajk, 28
Celebrating too soon? One solid theory was that the sale of the winners’ property had since fallen through, and would no longer be considered the top of the program’s leaderboard
However, many fans flooded The Block’s official Instagram post claiming the scandal couldn’t be that bad as it’s being covered by their own network.
One solid theory was that the sale of the winners’ property had since fallen through, and would no longer be considered the top of the program’s leaderboard.
A Current Affair will air its Block special on Tuesday, December 12, from 7pm