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The Block cheating scandal explodes: 'Everyone's involved'

Things turn nasty at the Gatwick. - by Nikki Black
  • 17 Sep 2018

Sara and Hayden have become firm favourites as they renovate their apartment at the Gatwick by their own rules, never apologising for who they are. And, despite their explosive arguments on the show, they’re quick to point out that most of that is due to the conditions of filming.

“It’s not like that in real life,” Hayden points out. “It’s intense on the show, but it hasn’t affected us in our normal life.”

“For Hayden and I, these arguments aren’t bad, that’s just the way our relationship is,” Sara tells New Idea. “We bicker and then we get over it and people can now see that, I think. If we were actually going to get a divorce, we wouldn’t be joking about it on the show.”

But what has really outraged the couple is the cheating scandal that has gone from bad to worse. It kicked off on Sunday when the teams discovered the Monopoly game hadn’t been played fairly. Jess and the netball girls, Carla and Bianca, had teamed up to play together and split the winnings.

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“We were excited to play so we were actually really shocked to find out later in the game that they’d actually teamed up right from the beginning,” Hayden reveals. “Everyone got cheated on because everyone was trying to play fair but there were two couples that weren’t,” Sara says.

“Clearly Jess and the girls were the brains and ‘no idea’ Norm went along for the ride.”

This latest drama has caused a divide among the couples. “All the couple were annoyed at what happened in the Monopoly game, it wasn’t just us. It split the whole Gatwick in half – old vs new. But when you make a move like that, you’re clearly going to burn your bridges,” she explains.

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“It was clear if they were going to team up with the Monopoly game, they could be teaming up over anything," Hayden adds, explaining why it’s hard to trust the Penthouse couples now.

Making matters worse, Sara reveals she then heard rumours the netball girls were again tweaking the rules.

“I was pissed off and thought, ‘enough is enough’. If they’re going to do these things, they should get punished for it,” she says.

“It was pretty cunning of them, that’s for sure, but the good thing about this is everyone is going to see it. Finally, the snakes have come out of the grass – they’ve been caught cheating. It’s disappointing two professional sportspeople can cheat like that but if you’re gonna cheat, you’re gonna get caught.”

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