The Block fans call out Scott Cam's 'reckless' act during filming: 'Hypocritical'

He’s hosted 18 seasons of The Block since joining the renovation reality series in 2010, but that doesn’t mean Scott Cam doesn’t still break some rules now and then. The Gold-Logie winner was called out on social media during Wednesday night’s episode after he and his co-host Shelley Craft had a major on-set blunder.

While the contestants and tradies are always reminded to wear hi-vis on the construction site, the two TV personalities noticeably went without any safety gear when they visited each of the teams’ houses. The faux pas was made even more apparent as the cast had attended a safety meeting just a few minutes before Scott and Shelley arrived.

The show’s safety officer Deano held a meeting at 7am instructing the people on the site to use sun protection and always wear hi-vis.

“Let’s all maintain hi-vis. You’re on the site, you need to have your hi-vis on,” he declared.

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Viewers quickly took to social media to slam Scott and Shelley for only wearing work shirts on site, with one person labelling the act as “reckless”.

“I like the morning's safety message. Wear your hi-vis. Then comes Scott and Shelley, no vests. Not like it's their first rodeo,” another added.

“No hard hats either,” a third shared, followed by a different user who commented, “Shelley usually has pink hi-vis too!”.

“That’s a little bit hypocritical,” someone else remarked, while another joked, “They’re special”.

How did Scott Cam get his start on TV?

As Scott Cam celebrates his 25th year of being in the entertainment industry, the beloved media personality recently revealed the surprising way he got scouted for TV. The former tradie, who has been a fixture on Australian TV since he first appeared on Backyard Blitz in 2000, appeared on Triple M's Mick & MG in the Morning this week where he shared that a chance encounter at a pub changed his life forever.

“I went to the pub every afternoon, as I told my wife ‘to clear the dust away’ but it was also a way to get work from other trades,” he explained. “There was a producer in there with his girlfriend, and he saw me yapping away and I had the ute and the dog, and he said ‘Would you do a screen test – I need a carpenter for a shoot’, and I said, ‘Nah mate that’s not my go’.”

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After turning it down, Scott thought that would be the end of that, but the producer had other ideas.

“He got the number off my ute and called me and asked me again the next day. I knocked him back, but my wife said, ‘You should do that, it would be something different’,” he recalled. “I’ve since been in the biz for 25 years.”

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