The Block 2021 episode 33 living and dining room reveal: Petty Georgia’s nasty act

She’s had good reason to have beef with Tanya and Vito, but a nasty act by Georgia has seen her stoop to their levels.

Claire Sutherland

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October 4, 2021 - 8:05PM

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Tanya and Vito have far from endeared themselves to their fellow contestants or the Australian Block viewing public, and they have no greater enemies than Ronnie and Georgia.

But in this episode it’s Georgia’s turn to display her petty side, as she discovers a shipment of Tanya and Vito’s furniture has been delivered with some of her own.

Instead of alerting her neighbours as to the whereabouts of their missing pieces, she unceremoniously dumps them on the road beside a rubbish skip, and puts a sign on it saying “Free to good honest home”.

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Her argument that Tanya and Vito should have come looking for their missing items isn’t an argument at all, it’s simply another opportunity to sink the boot in.

Georgia dumps Tanya and Vito’s furniture on the road near a skip. Picture: Channel 9

Even Mark, no fan of Tanya and Vito, chides her.

“Georgia! Oh Georgia, you’re better than that,” he says when he sees the sign.

A chastened Georgia removes the sign, but still doesn’t bother to tell her fellow contestants where to find their pieces.

“What irritates me is she is fake as f***,” Georgia says on Tanya. “Don’t be nice to me if you don’t like me. That’s cool. We can be courteous and kind but don’t be fake. Don’t bring me a fruit basket if you really don’t like me. It’s disingenuous and fake.”

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When Tanya eventually realises her pieces are somewhere on the set and drops by to find them, Ronnie notes, “It was nice Tanya, because there was a camera behind her”.

Nastiness when the cameras aren’t rolling, and fake niceness when they are, is something both teams are accusing the others of, and they even do it in a “private” chat in The Block’s tea room.

A strange attempt to have it out with one another fizzles, with both Tanya and Georgia proclaiming that what you see is what you get.

Georgia and Tanya’s tension doesn’t look like slowing down.

Then Vito realises he’s had his microphone on the whole time so a chat was designed to be off-screen becomes yet another chapter in this schoolyard bickering season of the show.

As the teams finish their living/dining rooms ahead of judging, Keith thinks he’s spotted Mark and Mitch’s builder Jason cheating by painting their ceiling.

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He orders the builder to take a time out as penalty without giving Mark or Jason the opportunity to explain. Keith should know the experienced couple, and the equally experienced builder, would never breach the cardinal Block rule that only contestants can paint, and Mark astutely accuses him of grandstanding for the cameras.

Kirsty and Jesse’s warm and welcoming living and dining room. Picture: Channel 9

“You seriously think having done this for two seasons we would let him paint?” Mark says. “It’s just trying to create drama.”

Keith accuses Mark of having a “hissy fit” — a coded choice of words if ever there’s been one — but relents after Jason shows him that he was actually just using a paintbrush to caulk a tricky section around a skylight. And in the end it’s Mark who apologises to Keith.

“I was tired, I was frustrated and I was wrong,” he says.

On to the judging.

The judges want Luke and Josh to swap their living room with their dining room. Picture: Channel 9

The judges love perennial favourites Ronnie and Georgia’s room with it’s intimate dining area under a mezzanine, lounge room with soaring raked ceiling and skylights, bouclé fabric couch, fireplace and classy steel/glass door separating the room from the hallway.

“Classic, contemporary luxury” is how Neale Whitaker describes it.

Mark and Mitch are once again the subject of their criticism.

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They don’t like the placement of a circular table to denote an entryway, and they think the space between the kitchen and the round table is wasted and could have been used to create a more generous kitchen.

“The layout is wrong,” Darren Palmer says.

“It doesn’t feel like it’s flowing. It feels like a bit of this and a bit of that. It’s like a series of vignettes in various corners but they’re not meshing to create a home,” Neale agrees.

Mark and Mitch’s living and dining room failed to impress the judges. Picture: Channel 9

The TV is too high, because it’s above a fireplace and the living area feels like a waiting room, according to Neale.

“I’m glad I’m not in the room when Scotty gives this feedback,” Shaynna notes. Someone obviously informed her about Mitch’s foul-mouthed tirade against the judges after last week’s kitchen results.

The pair restrain themselves this time, and seem to either take the criticism on the chin, or are so worn down by what admittedly does feel like a campaign against them that it’s now water off a duck’s back.

The judges are most enthusiastic about Tanya and Vito’s sunken lounge room. The costly inclusion is “cool and retro”, according to Darren.

Tanya and Vito’s sunken lounge room would have won outright if Ronnie and Georgia hadn’t used their bonus point. Picture: Channel 9

“There’s nothing more conducive to people being together,” Neale says.

They also love the circular skylights, and second living area on the other side of a tiled two-sided fireplace.

Josh and Luke strike out yet again, though the judges say they could easily fix their space by swapping some furniture around. They think the smaller, intimate area off the living and kitchen space should be the dining room, rather than the living room. Otherwise, they like the twins’ choice of furniture and colours.

Kirsty and Jesse’s small lounge is “warm and welcoming”, according to Neale. The L-shaped lounge, built-in shelves, two-way fireplace, exposed beams and striped nautical wallpaper all get the tick of approval.

Ronnie and Georgia’s co-winning living room. Picture: Channel 9

After crowing about how much they’d like to use their bonus point to deny Tanya and Vito their only win, Ronnie and Georgia indeed decide to use it. It only gets them a draw though, meaning the teams split the $10,000 prize money. Tanya and Vito got a 10 from one judge though, so they pocket an extra $10,000 on top.

But the best part of the prize?

The two warring couples have to go away together for a night at a swanky farmhouse. Georgia “graciously” tells Scott Cam that Tanya and Vito can go alone since they haven’t won anything yet, but Scott, with an obvious bent for drama, insists that if any couple pulls out, they won’t get their prize money.

Touche.

Final scores:

1 Ronnie and Georgia 29.5 (including bonus point)

1 Tanya and Vito 29.5

2 Kirsty and Jesse 29

3 Mark and Mitch 25

4 Josh and Luke 22.5

MISSED AN EPISODE?

Episode 31 & 32: Block team verbally abuses producers

Episode 30: “It’s taking the piss”: War on the judges heats up

Episode 29: Mitch tells Block judges to ‘go f*** yourselves’

Episode 27 & 28: Lip synch battle and fruit fight divides The Block