The Block 2024‘s executive producer Julian Cress has candidly opened up about one of this year’s teams who decided to quit the show part way through.
“We didn’t make it through the whole series with all five teams,” he told TV Tonight.
“It was a very difficult decision for them to come to, but there was a very strong reason why they decided to do it and very dramatic and will be unfolding in the coming weeks.”
Yahoo Lifestyle has reported that the team who will be leaving The Block 2024 part-way through is Blue Team Jesse and Paige.
Why did Jesse and Paige reportedly quit The Block?
While Julian didn’t confirm that it was Jesse and Paige who quit The Block 2024, he did say that the team’s reason for leaving was “pretty remarkable”.
“It’s impossible to tell somebody to do The Block. If you don’t have enormous reserves of willpower, excitement, courage, and work ethic… if you even take your eye off the ball on The Block for a day, you get your arse handed to you,” he said.
“Nobody can do it unless they’re 100% committed to the task at hand.”
“I’m not saying these people left because they were lazy,” Julian clarified to TV Tonight.
“They wanted to do it, but it just became enormously challenging at some point and their reasons for leaving, are pretty remarkable. I think it will start a very interesting conversation amongst the audience.”
Was the leaving team replaced on The Block?
The Block 2022 saw a similar scenario go down: Elle Ferguson and Joel Patfull left the series after 48 hours – and were replaced by Rachel and Ryan Carr.
Julian has confirmed that this year’s leaving team will be replaced as well.
“We had to replace one of them [the teams] along the way, which was a very dramatic moment. We’ve had a team leave previously in the show in Gisborne, but that was only after a couple of days,” he said.
It sounds to us that this year’s The Block is going to have MAFS levels of drama and we’re here for it.
The Block 2024 premieres at 7:30pm on Monday, August 12 on Channel 9 and 9Now.
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