Block contestant Luke Packham’s on-camera meltdown over cheating scandal

Block bad boy Luke looked moments away from storming off the show completely as he demanded not to be filmed in an explosive on-set meltdown.

Fiery Block star Luke Packham blew up at producers in explosive scenes aired on Tuesday night, as the season’s ugly cheating scandal blew up.

The former Love Island contestant, who is on the show with his twin brother Josh, became embroiled in the saga after it was revealed his team had access to the show’s production schedule via an unauthorised photo taken in Scott Cam’s office and circulated among contestants.

But when pressed on who first sent the photograph, Luke wasn’t about to snitch on his accomplice — resulting in an on-set meltdown in which he swore at the camera and repeatedly demanded not to be filmed.

Luke was firm in his stance not to reveal the true culprit.

After winning Sunday’s master bedroom room reveal, the boys had admitted to using the leaked Block schedule to plan ahead, while flatly refusing to divulge who had clued them in on the advantage.

Eventually, Tanya and Vito were exposed as the culprits, resulting in a “highly unusual” on-camera confession in which Tanya claimed to have received the image from an anonymous texter in week one.

But before the couple came forward, Luke had kicked off at Keith and Dan for interrogating his builder Ryan during their site routine visits trying to get to the bottom of the mystery.

The Love Island star charged in to defend his builder.

Foreman Keith looked shocked by the outburst.

With Ronnie and Georgia’s builder claiming he first saw the photo on Ryan’s phone, their search had led them to house four for another round of finger pointing, coming face-to-face with an outraged Luke. 

“I know what’s going on but it’s not my place to say. It’s not my place to say, Keith,” he said as the foreman tried to interrupt.

“The only name we’re hearing is Ryan, Ryan, Ryan,” a producer chimed in while Luke asked to be given “10 minutes” to sort out the drama.

As he fiercely defended his builder, cameras closed in on the group and producers stepped in to intervene.

“Don’t do it to me Dan, don’t f**cking spin this,” he started yelling as he pointed towards someone behind the camera.

“I’ve been good about this. No, I don’t want to do this in front of the camera. I’ve been f***ing good about this,” he repeated.

“It doesn’t work this way,” a producer was heard saying as Luke charged towards him with his finger pointed.

“I’m not doing this on the screen … Give me 10 minutes,” he repeated before storming off to make a phone call.

Luke appeared to target his fury at a producer behind the camera.

Wildly pointing his finger at the producer, he demanded to be left alone.

“Vito, we need to resolve this now. It’s all going to be fine, but they’re nailing me and Ryan. It just has to be resolved. We have to do it now,” Luke was heard saying.

Later, he told producers he was tipped over the edge by Keith and Dan seemingly pinning the incident on Ryan.

“It was hard to see Ryan grilled like that,” he said.

“I was upset, I’m very protective of Ryan, he’s my builder, we love Ryan, he’s like a brother to us now. At the end of the day I sent (the photo) to him so I’m feeling responsible for this.”

The confrontation eventually led to the contestant outing Tanya and Vito as the other team involved, prompting a scramble from the pair to get their story straight for cameras.

It all looks set to explode further in a body corporate meeting tomorrow night, as the teams trade vicious barbs in a screaming match.

Originally published as Block contestant Luke Packham’s on-camera meltdown over cheating scandal