The Block 2025 Episode 28 recap: Britt’s decision to freeze out her former bestie has Alicia on the warpath

As an avid Block fan, Alicia should have known better than to follow the advice of 2023’s returning contestant Kristy.

In case you’ve forgotten, Kristy became the season villain for her mean girl antics and toxic relationship with BFF turned arch nemesis Leah. She and husband Brett didn’t exactly come out trumps on auction day either, begrudgingly leaving with a paltry $65,000 profit.

Having left the show on relatively bad terms, it was a surprise to see the couple on the Daylesford building site.

Apparently, they have a vague connection to Robby. Seeing the pair pop in, Mat was quick to distance himself, shrugging: “I don’t know them.”

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Brett and Kristy return to discover a disappointing lack of fighting.

It didn’t take long for Kristy to get back to what she did so well: stirring the pot.

“Who is the villain?” Kristy asked, soon after expressing disappointment that things seemed to be “all sunshine and rainbows” compared to her own stormy season.

When Alicia admitted she’d exchanged words with Han and Can over their copycat spa room, Kristy’s eyes lit up.

“I love that,” she smiled, reassuring Alicia that venting was an important part of the process. “If I can give you any advice it would be enjoy the experience and have your cliques.”

Kristy’s “clique” strategy wasn’t anything to emulate given how her friendship with Leah completely fell apart towards the end of the series.

Eager not to repeat the same mistakes as Kristy and Leah, Alicia said: “I saw what you girls went through, being here is enough of a pressure cooker so I said to Britt that if we have got any beef, we just have to make sure we express how we both feel. And no matter what, we have to make sure we are ok.”

True to her word, Alicia later bailed Britt up by the bins when word reached her that the West Australian cop had gone to Kmart without her that day.

Alicia had been feeling on the outer with Britt ever since Steph and Gian teamed up with them for the Rex renovation challenge.

Now that Steph had departed, Alicia was ready and waiting to get the call up to once again become Britt’s shopping wing woman. Only the call never came.

Alicia storms off when she finds out Britt went shopping without her.

Instead, Britt took off to do all her shopping solo.

“It just gave me the s**ts that I have waited around and my mate didn’t tell me that she was going without me,” Alicia said, sourly.

“Not happy. It’s exactly like being stood up. It’s embarrassing.”

Only, rather than an apology, the mother-of-three received a feeble excuse and nervous laughter from Britt, only enraging her further.

Alicia suspected (correctly) that Steph had inspired Britt to play the game harder.

“Fine. I will put my game on too and go back to playing for myself. But it will only make me angrier and more determined to win. She’s awoken the beast.”

Spending time shopping with Steph had opened Britt’s eyes to taking a more insular approach to their game.

Steph also planted seeds of doubt about Alicia’s design prowess, telling Britt that she didn’t like Alicia and Sonny’s house design at all.

Taz claims every last log of free timber.

Tensions were on the rise between Britt and Alicia’s husbands too, with Sonny and Taz engaged in a turf war over old logs. Yes, logs.

At Foreman Dan’s urging, Taz decided to exercise the “first in, best dressed” rule and claim every log of available wood donated by a timber supplier for himself by spraying it with a territorial “H2” tag.

Justifying Taz’s actions, Britt reasoned: “Look you’ve got to find ways to get ahead. It is a competition and we have got to start thinking about ourselves a bit.”

Sonny wasn’t impressed. In need of wood for their landscaping too, he just painted over Taz’s tags to claim timber for himself. And he didn’t even let some stern words from foreman Dan deter his efforts, offering to take it to a body corporate meeting if Taz wouldn’t relinquish some of his haul of fallen free trees.

Cutting the logs up proved a far more friendly affair. Too, friendly perhaps.

Taz likened slicing the wooden posts with some expert guidance from host Scott Cam to Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze’s sensual pottery-throwing scene in the 1990s movie Ghost.

Scott and Taz do some Ghost-style timber cutting.

“It felt like something out of a movie,” Taz smiled. “It was actually a bit romantic, me and Scotty Cam there.”

Scott didn’t win any hearts over at Han and Can’s place though when he and Shelley made their weekly rounds to offer feedback on the teams’ progress.

“I know this is a terrible thing to say but if I was a buyer, I couldn’t buy this place because of that,” Scott Cam said pointing at the low hanging rangehood.

“Because if I am cooking, I would hit my head.”