Block contestants Sharon and Ankur slam the show in radio interview

Block contestants Sharon and Ankur went rogue live on radio this morning, declaring their relationship with the team behind the show is now dead.

Controversial The Block couple Sharon and Ankur slammed Nine’s hit reno series in an explosive radio interview this morning, with Ankur revealing their portrayal in Monday night’s episode had been the final straw in his relationship with those making the show.

Last night, as contestants got stuck into landscaping week for the show’s final stretch, Sharon and Ankur were shown being informed by foremen Keith and Dan that their landscaper had come in a whopping $26,000 over budget.

Keith asked why Ankur had not been more across the figures, given his day job as an accountant – a question to which both Sharon and Ankur took great offence.

A tearful Sharon accused Keith of trying to damage her husband’s professional reputation, and Keith backed down and apologised for the question.

Block contestants Sharon and Ankur are not happy about how they’ve been treated this season.

In a live radio interview with Hit NSW Breakfast with Maz & Matty this morning, Sharon and Ankur were both still clearly smarting from the events shown on-screen last night.

Ankur said he was “angry” about the run-in, arguing other contestants who work in construction and plumbing haven’t had their qualifications brought into question when their houses had issues in those areas.

“That’s why I got so upset when they ambushed us in yesterday’s episode. Shaz is like a machine – ‘let’s get to the auctions’ – but I don’t know how to feel about it to be honest,” he said.

And Ankur claimed there was no way he could’ve known about the couple’s landscaping bill coming in over budget, as landscaping was initially being organised without contestants’ input in scenes that never made it to air.

“There’s stuff they don’t show. The landscapers and executive producers were in chats for six weeks without contestants knowing. We hadn’t even seen the invoice – it went directly to (host) Scott Cam. Then they come and ambush us and ask, ‘Haven’t you SEEN the budget?’ I’m like, you might want to show that part of the show instead of ambushing me again,” he fumed.

Calling last night’s episode a “tipping point,” Ankur said that he and Sharon had “definitely checked out of (their) relationship” with the team making The Block - which may make for awkward scenes as they head towards their auctions, which will take place next weekend.

Foremen Keith (left) and Dan clashed with Sharon and Ankur last night.

Sharon also spoke up, arguing that the couple never got a fair go on the show because their house required the most work.

“Everybody thought we didn’t do any work around The Block – we pulled the most all-nighters out of everyone, because our house was bigger. Scotty always likes to have that jab, ‘(Your house) is only 14 square metres bigger.’ It’s not that. We’re saying that the old build is harder for us to create, because we’ve got to demo it and we’ve got to frame up. The new build, which everyone else had much earlier in the piece, is already framed up and ready to go.”

And she also railed against her portrayal on the show, suggesting The Block was using her previous work as an actor to portray her in a negative light.

Sharon tearfully defends her husband in last night's episode.

She says her acting past has been used against her on the show.

“Always referring to me as ‘actress Sharon’ instead of just ‘Sharon’. They don’t say ‘social worker Sarah-Jane.’ We’re in week 11, and just annoyed with the set-ups and the storylines,” she said.

She also explained why she got so upset at Keith’s “accountant” jab in Monday’s episode.

“Quite clearly, we’re probably not going to be renovators after this, so don’t cut off the only livelihood that my husband has. That’s when Tigress Sharon came out and I was like, ‘Do you know what? STFU. I’m not copping that.’”

The 12-week nightmare will soon be over for Sharon and Ankur, with The Block’s auctions set to take place on Saturday November 5 – and screening the following night in the show’s season finale.

Originally published as Block contestants Sharon and Ankur slam the show in radio interview