The Block contestant Sharon reveals fallout of ‘villain edit’

“I should have prepared for it, but I did not”: Controversial Block contestant Sharon opens up about her “unfair” treatment by the show.

One-half of this season’s most controversial Block couple, Sharon Johal and husband Ankur Dogra, spoke out during a radio interview this morning about how she’s been depicted on the show.

Sharon and Ankur quickly entrenched themselves as this year’s “villains” as they were shown clashing with their builders, complaining they wished they’d never signed up for the show, and even sneaking off-site together to nap in their car.

Speaking to radio hosts Bec, Cosi and Lehmo on 107.1 SAFM Friday morning, former Neighbours actor Sharon said she wished she’d steeled herself better for her first foray into reality TV.

Sharon and Ankur have been this season's most controversial Block couple.

“I 100 per cent walked from one soap opera to another. How easy is it for the actor and the accountant, the ones who don’t have any experience, to cop all that?” she asked of she and Ankur, by far the least experienced couple in a season filled with contestants who have prior renovating experience.

“It’s reality TV – I should have prepared for it, but I did not,” she said, explaining that her loved ones had been dismayed at how she and husband Ankur had been depicted on screen.

“For the first bunch of weeks I was like, ‘It’s really unfair.’ My family and friends are really disappointed in the edit, they say ‘It’s not showing who you guys are’ – but it is what it is,” she sighed.

But the radio hosts took Sharon to task on this point, playing her one of the most recent of she and Ankur’s many controversial moments this season. In audio from an episode earlier this week, Sharon could be heard on the phone to her brother, slamming the couple’s own team of builders as “f**king idiots” and “lazy a**holes.”

All smiles, but Sharon and Ankur have had a rocky ride this season.

“That wasn’t me!” she joked after the clip was played. “How many times a day do you vent to your friends or your partner? Anks and I had vented to each other in the middle of the night – that footage was shown to Scott Cam, who then yelled at us. It’s a similar thing that’s happening now,” she argued.

And Sharon also offered one minor spoiler ahead of The Block’s expected November 6 finale – despite their repeated threats to quit, she and Ankur do stick it out all the way to the end.

“We picked the biggest house on The Block – pretty silly of us, but we’ve finished it and it looks beautiful,” she said.

She also gave listeners a bit more of an insight into why tempers are so frayed on this season of The Block, as the cast and crew battle extreme conditions building in country Victoria during a cold, wet (and very muddy) winter.

A before shot of Sharon and Ankur’s Block house in Gisborne South. Picture: The Block/Channel 9

“It was pretty bad – especially when you don’t have a roof and a front door so you feel the gusts of wind. It was minus temperatures, no heating, no showers for three months solid. I sound like a whinger, but that’s just the conditions we were under and why we were stressed out of our brains.”

But Sharon couldn’t resist one final bombshell as the interview wrapped – asked to name her least favourite person on The Block, she went straight to the top, picking host Scott Cam.

“The grumpiest person was Scott Cam, for sure. But I don’t hate him, I like him,” she insisted.

Originally published as The Block contestant Sharon reveals fallout of ‘villain edit’