Block producers break promise to family over child crash scene

Contestants, Scott Cam and viewers are left baffled at a dangerous scene Nine chose to air on The Block.

The Block fans were left shocked when Channel 9 chose to air a dangerous incident involving a two-year-old.

It has now been revealed the family of the child were promised by producers the scene wouldn’t be aired.

The drama on The Block 2025 has simmered down compared to previous seasons but Nine’s decision to air the child crashing a car has become the subject of hot debate – for all the wrong reasons.

On Monday’s episode, Scotty Cam took contestants Mat and Robby on their “Monday getaway” to the Touki Trout farm to “catch their dinner”.

“Who in their wildest dreams would ever think we would be having a beer with Scotty Cam fishing for trout,” Mat said.

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“But the highlight of the highlight of the highlight … as we are trout fishing we hear this beep, beep, beep, in this car behind us, and Robert the owner says ‘Oh don’t worry, it’s just my grandson’,” he said.

Although they were told it was just the two-year-old grandson in a parked car, Mat goes on to explain how they then watched the car drive through a bush and crash into a tree in the embankment.

“(Robert) … pulls out a two-year-old by his hand,” Mat said.

“We are standing there going, how was no one talking about this, or panicked?”

Viewers then saw a small car crashed into a tree and hear the trout farmer owner Robert talk to his grandson over wails from the child: “I’ll get him back to his mum.”

A car crashed into a tree during filming.

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Robert’s wife and Tuki Trout Farm co-owner, Jan, has since expressed her disappointment to Yahoo Lifestyle after the show’s producers aired the scene involving her grandson, despite promising it would not be broadcast.

She confirmed their grandson was “unharmed” following the incident.

“It was a little, minor accident, and we did ask them not to show that. They promised not to,” she told Yahoo Lifestyle.

“The child, obviously, is completely unharmed and much loved, so we’re really disappointed that it was shown.”

The Block fans were also left baffled by the scene and took to social media to express their dismay.

The Block contestants Mat and Robby left baffled by the incident.

“I’m amazed anyone thought this was funny and even more amazed it made it to air. Who the hell was supervising that toddler? Thank goodness the car nudged into a tree – could just have easily ended up in the dam. Completely unfunny,” one user wrote on Reddit.

“I was shook,” another wrote.

“Irresponsible parenting / babysitting at its finest – why was he even in the car? and I bet he wasn’t even told off,” one comment read.

While Scotty Cam passed it off saying the kid would remember it for the rest of his life, Mat expressed his shock by saying “I think I’ll remember it for the rest of my life.”

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