“Watching this play out, it’s really going to stink.”

The Block has upped the ante when it comes to drama this week, after House 4, Sonny and Alicia, found themselves embroiled in a scandal with House 2’s Han and Can.

Partaking in the Hepburn Spa challenge – where the teams had to renovate and build their own bathrooms – Sonny and Alicia came up with a clever plan to get a seat and underfloor heating approved for their bathroom. Sonny told Chattr that he was the only person initially in constant contact with the builder at Hepburn Springs, asking questions as to how they could make their plan for the heated element work.
The Block’s Sonny and Alicia. Image: Nine
“They actually first put up a roadblock to what I wanted to do,” Sonny said. “And my comment to them was, ‘Well, if I find you a solution, can I do it?’ And so I found a way around it. We found a way to do it.

“I was the only person, sort of, in contact with this person because I’m asking questions all the time,” he continued. “I’d say, ‘has anyone else asked about this’ and they’d be like, ‘No one’s even spoken to me, mate’.”

What happened between The Block’s Sonny and Alicia and Han and Can?

After Sonny and Alicia fought hard to get the seat and underfloor heating approved, Alicia discovered Han and Can were doing the same thing. It didn’t take long for the couple to realise Han and Can may have copied their idea, and after fighting so hard to make it work, they weren’t happy.

“I just think it’s a shit move, it’s a shit thing to do to somebody else, it’s uncreative,” Alicia said in the episode, before the couple confronted Han in a dramatic scene.
Han didn’t admit to copying Sonny and Alicia when they confronted her. Image: Nine
“It was already a forethought,” Han told the couple unapologetically before they questioned how she came up with the plan. Han then told the couple the “chippies” told her how to do it.

Later on, Can apologised to Alicia, something the couple took as a sign of guilt that Han and Can had copied their plan. “I wouldn’t say sorry for something that I haven’t done,” Alicia told Chattr. “I’m not offering you a caravan and an apology if I haven’t done anything wrong.”

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Now, Sonny and Alicia have spoken to Chattr about the betrayal and what they have to say may shock fans.

“We worked really hard, us and them, to get over this,” Sonny said. “We speak to the girls couple times a week, we’ve been texting with them this afternoon. We have a very good friendship with the girls. I think it’s commendable on both ourselves and them. We’ve worked to get over that because, you know, we didn’t want bad blood. It upsets us to watch, because whatever’s going on right now, it’s a very hard watch for them. It’s not nice to see that happen to your mates.”

“We absolutely love them,” Alicia echoed. “They are the kindest girls you’ll ever meet. I have a rough time coming up, and Hannah’s the one texting me before I go to bed. Honestly, the girls’ have the biggest hearts, and they take time for everybody. So watching this play out, it’s really going to stink, we feel terrible for the way it went down and what happened, but unfortunately that’s the truth of it and it’s how it went down.”
The Block’s Han and Can haven’t been well-received by fans. Image: Nine
Sonny said the couple didn’t have regrets about how they handled the situation, but that he hopes The Block fans keep in mind that

“We don’t feel terrible for speaking our mind, but we feel terrible that at the end of the day for them on a TV show in the national spotlight, we presume it’s probably not going to play out that well, especially after last few weeks that haven’t played out that well,” he said. “Everyone’s a human being. [Fans are] making these judgments on people, and they’re filming us for 17 hours a day, seven days a week and they’re condensing it down to five hours a week. So there’s good, there’s bad, there’s a lot more to it than those five hours.”

“It all unfolds really quickly, but you also move on really quickly,” Alicia added. “We’re one big family.”