The Block host Scott Cam opens up about his future on the hit show
Scott Cam has opened up about his future as the host of The Block, with the show’s executive producer also weighing in on the situation.
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The Block host Scott Cam has hosed down rumours he is set to depart the hit renovation show.
Cam was the subject of a strange report in New Idea suggesting Jamie Durie, who was the original host of The Block, was being looked at to replace him on the Channel 9 show and that he was facing the chop.
It was news to everyone, including Cam.
“I am a bit surprised by that too,” he said.
“But I always take it with a grain of salt. They never contacted me, I don’t know where that story came from.
“I have been at Channel 9 for 21 years on a permanent basis and I have got a few good years left in some contracts, so I reckon I am staying put.”
The Block’s executive producer Julian Cress backed Cam.
“Every TV show is the sum of its parts, but with The Block the parts Scott Cam represents are both its heart and its soul,” Cress said.
“He is such an integral organ that without him there simply wouldn’t be a show. As long as Dave, Justin and I are making The Block Scotty will be the host. Sometimes people remind me that The Block once had another host and my response is always the same, ‘Did it really?’.”