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Surprise winners of The Block leaked ahead of Sunday's finale
This year's season of The Block wraps up on Sunday night, with one team the clear favourite to win at the auction.
Betting sites will often give a pretty good indication of who will take out a reality show, and Sportsbet has Victorian couple Tom and Sarah-Jane as the likely winners, with odds of $2.00.
Coming in behind them are friends Omar and Oz, who have odds of $3.75, followed by Sydney couple Ryan and Rachel, who are sitting at $5. Sitting in fourth place is Queensland couple Dylan and Jenny with odds of $6.50, and in last place is Ankur and Sharon, who have odds of $13.
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It comes after Ankur and Sharon shared their biggest regret from the show with Yahoo Lifestyle, revealing they were very unprepared for the public backlash.
Ankur admits that the couple were ‘really naive’ going on the show and thought The Block would be the least ‘dramatic’ reality TV program. Once the show started airing, they soon realised how passionate and ‘deeply invested’ the show's fanbase really is.
Sharon adds: “I suppose [to be] successful for 18 years, they do follow a format where there is high drama, there’s usually characters that are kind of pushed around and people play those characters.”
Sharon and Ankur believe that being ‘honest’ was actually their downfall. By showing emotion, such as frustration, or crying onscreen, meant Australia instantly labelled them as ‘whingers’ or ‘sooks’.
In a strange turn of events, the one thing the couple regret most is how honest they were.
“I never want to do things with regrets,” Ankur says. “Not that I’d do [the show] again, but [if I did], I would unfortunately not be as open — like everybody else played the game and they did it well. I think honesty, which is ironic because we got painted as liars and cheats, sort of cost us in the end.”
Sharon also adds that the ‘manipulative’ aspect behind reality TV was the hardest thing for her to cope with during filming, “It was really obvious when things were set up, and I found that really hard. It didn’t feel like reality,” she confessed. The pair said that sometimes producers would ask questions while they were sleep deprived which didn’t make sense at the time, but when they watched the final edit on TV they realised how ‘clever’ the editing was.
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