As House Rules’ second-round of Backyard Battles is well and truly underway, Kim and Michelle’s reno is rocked by a frightening health scare.
On Wednesday night’s episode, the team’s reach their final day at David and Chiara’s Perth home, and Michelle’s crippling fear of spiders gets the better of her.
Michelle is mid backyard battle, when she notices that she’s been carrying a lounge chair that has huntsman spiders on the backside of it.
Immediately noticing, Michelle screams to the camera crew: ‘Can you hold it, can you hold it?’
Visibly distressed, Michelle makes her way out of the build site to calm down.


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The distressed contestant is then heard saying: ‘I have a really bad fear of spiders.’
A paramedic helps Michelle as she tries to calm herself.
Meanwhile, teammate Kim is left battling the clock to finish their section of the backyard reno.

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Kim yells: ‘We’ve got 10 minutes left,’ while a still distressed Michelle still tries to gather her breath, telling the paramedic: ‘I think I’m going to faint.’
Sitting on the ground, a very stressed Michelle attempts to regain her composure.
Later, Michelle tells: ‘I was bringing in furniture and there were big huntsman’s on the back of it. I realised after I’d carried it in and I have a really bad phobia.
‘It’s not just, I’m not just scared them it’s an actual phobia. I feel like I have an illness,’ adding, ‘It just escalated the more and more – I couldn’t get them out of my head.’
‘I’ve never, ever felt like that before.’
Recomposing herself, Michelle tells the paramedic: ‘I can feel it, it’s gone now.’
With only nine minutes left to complete their zone, Kim and Michelle frantically race to the finish.

‘I feel like I let us down,’ Michelle says once the round is complete. ‘I had a panic attack and I don’t know how long that was going for – I can’t remember.’
‘I just feel like I let us down as a team.’
The Backyard Reveals continue on Thursday night, on Channel Seven.