Dave Hughes’ wife banned him from buying The Block house

Dave Hughes attended the Block auctions on Sunday, where he expressed interest in buying the final home – and then his wife got involved.

David ‘Hughesy’ Hughes was a surprise attendee at this year’s The Block auctions, armed with a paddle in hand suggesting he was eager to buy one of the homes.

The Australian comedian, who bought Josh and Elyse’s Block home in Elsternwick in 2017, attended all five home auctions on Saturday, but didn’t make a single bid against the usual offenders – Adrian Portelli and Danny Wallis.

He did, however, appear to express interest in buying the final home to go to auction – Leah and Ash’s house – which was passed in after it failed to hit reserve.

Afterwards, an agent said Hughes - who also owns a home in St Kilda - was “bringing his wife back later tonight” to look at the property in Melbourne’s Hampton East.

Dave Hughes on this year’s Block finale.

Speaking on Hit Network’s Hughesy, Ed & Erin Tuesday morning, Hughes revealed his wife Holly blocked him from buying the home.

“I was accosted as I left the auction, trying to get out of there, because one house didn’t sell and I said, ‘I’ll go talk to my wife’,” Hughes began on his 2DayFM breakfast show, before calling Holly live on-air so she could explain what happened.

Holly claimed she was berated with questions at her local school on Monday about whether or not the couple decided to buy House 2.

“I was being asked by students and teachers,” she said. “You [Hughes] came home and as we were getting into bed, you said, ‘How would you have felt if I just bought that house?’ And I said, ‘Furious’.”

The finale showed Hughes was keen to show his wife Holly Leah and Ash’s home. Picture: Supplied/Channel 9

But Holly blocked it from happening. Picture: David Caird

Holly went on to lash Hughes, saying he would’ve only bought the home to “show off”.

“If you bought a third house [in Melbourne] without consulting with me …” Holly said.

“He never expressed any interesting in investing in that part of Melbourne, it’s so random, he would’ve just been buying a house to show off.

“He had not looked at the houses or anything. He hadn’t watched an episode.”

Hughesy bought the house by winning Block couple Josh Barker and Elyse Knowles in 2017. Source: Channel NINE

Holly’s brutal comments have all but confirmed the Hughes family is out of the race for Leah and Ash’s home, which was the only property not to sell on auction day.

The first auction was the biggest, with Steph and Gian’s House 4 going for $5 million – $1.65m over reserve – thanks to Portelli’s hard-to-beat bidding.

While Hughes didn’t bid on any of this year’s houses, his previous Block buy has paid off nicely.

The radio host paid $3.067 million for the five-bedroom home in 2017. After weathering much speculation he’d overpaid for the property, he revealed last week that a recent valuation put the house at around $5 million.

Originally published as Dave Hughes’ wife banned him from buying The Block house