“It was still a nice way to tell them.”

The Block 2025’s Emma and Ben announced their pregnancy during an episode that aired in late August, but it was Scotty Cam and Shelley Craft that broke the news to the other contestants.

Some viewers took to social media to share that they were disappointed they didn’t get to see Emma and Ben share their exciting baby news with the other Blockheads.

“Did Ben and Emma say it was ok for Scotty to tell the others? If not, that’s just not on. Shouldn’t have told him first,” one person wrote in a Facebook fan group.

“Just bizarre that those 2 walked around and told everyone Ben and Emma’s news!!!!” Another penned.

Some even went as far as to speculate that Emma and Ben told the other cast members off-camera, and that the Shelley and Scotty scenes were staged.

“I think a few already knew…the reactions were pretty average,” one person wrote, while another said: “Everything we see is for drama. You are watching a reality DRAMA show.”

However, in an interview with Chattr, Emma and Ben confirmed that they specifically asked the hosts to share the new for them, and added that it was the first time the other contestants found out about the pregnancy.

“No, we actually didn’t [tell the other contestants off camera],” Emma said. “We were so busy doing our room and everything, that we gave Scotty and Shelly the go-ahead to tell everyone, we thought that was the easiest thing to do. Everyone’s in their own space. Everyone’s working away,” she added.

“The producers were like, Do you want to tell everyone, or do you want Scotty and Shelley too? It was walk-around Friday. So we’re like, Oh, Scotty and Shelly are going to see everyone anyway, so it saves us having to walk around and tell everyone,” Emma laughed.

“But everyone’s still like, congratulated us as soon as they saw us later that day. So, it was still a nice way to tell them,” Ben added.
Scotty Cam and Shelley Craft telling Sonny and Alicia and Ben and Emma’s pregnancy. Image: Nine.

Did producers know that Emma and Ben were pregnant when they started on The Block?

Emma learned she was pregnant the same morning Scotty Cam rang to tell her and Ben they’d made it onto The Block.

“I had a feeling I was pregnant, and we did the test literally the same morning that we got the call from Scotty to tell us that we were on The Block, and I was like, ‘Oh God, then what are we gonna do? Like, should we just go with the flow?’ And we did. We were just like, well, if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. So we literally just went with the flow. It was very exciting. It was a big day,” Emma said.

The married couple said that they never second-guessed their choice to go on the show after finding out Emma was pregnant.

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“It was never not an option to go on The Block. We were really early in the pregnancy, but I thought, like, I’ll just listen to my body, and if I wasn’t on The Block, I would still be running around teaching all my pole dancing, like, renovating at home anyway. So I just thought, as long as I listen to my body, and everything will be fine,” she added.

It’s extremely common for couples to keep a pregnancy to themselves until the twelve-week mark passes, as that’s when the chance of complications drops significantly. Emma and Ben chose to keep their baby news to themselves and only told the crew about the baby when they were midway through the season.

“We waited till the 12-week mark, and we just thought — because there’s a slight chance that it doesn’t work out — let’s not get ahead of ourselves and wait until that 12-week mark. The moment you saw on the TV was us genuinely finding out [the gender].”

A huge congratulations to Ben and Emma and their incoming bundle of joy!