The Block's Paige and Jesse on being 'tricked' to return to the show: 'On edge'

Paige and Jesse made history on this year’s season of The Block when they became the first team to quit the reality show halfway through filming. While Paige has since spoken out about her “horrific” experience in a three-part tell-all TikTok series, viewers will be surprised to learn that she and her fiancé are set to return to the series later this season.

Speaking exclusively to Yahoo Lifestyle, the couple revealed that they filmed a surprise cameo earlier this year which will air towards the end of the competition.

“Our sole reasoning for coming back was to support our cast and support our friends,” Jesse shared. “They’ve just done 13 weeks of this, and we hadn't seen them for seven weeks. We just really wanted to support them and come back and see them.

“And also, we wanted to meet Maddy and Charlotte. We got to share a bit of their Block experience with them as well. We're a House 1 team and we always still say we did this together.”

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Paige added that she and Jesse “definitely didn't get tricked or coerced into coming back” and it was entirely their decision to return.

“Nine wouldn't make us do anything that we didn't want to do,” she asserted. “I know, for me, it wasn't easy going back. I was very on edge, I was very timid, and I was very nervous, for obvious reasons.”

Channel Nine's 'sneaky tactic'

Paige and Jesse’s comments come shortly after a production insider told Yahoo Lifestyle that it was a “sneaky tactic of Channel Nine” to have them return to the show before they watched their 'edit'.

“What audiences will see in the final week will look very much like, ‘Everything is fine. See look, they still love the show!’,” they said. “Would they have come back if they asked them now? I guess that answer is pretty clear if you are following Paige’s social media.

“The door will always be open to have more conversations with the team who make The Block. At this stage, it’s hard because it’s still fresh. It would be confronting for any couple to watch back the tumultuous times of their relationship on national TV and Jesse and Paige were very real and very raw. Sadly, the show wasn’t the right environment for them and they were supported in their decision to leave.”

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Paige issues a strong message to the network

Paige issued a strong message to the network during her recent TikTok tell-all. She said that she feels for the past contestants who have also been affected by the show, the young women on the crew who are “sick of the boys club”, and the audience who “now have to watch a show driven from such a place of arrogance and ego”.

“The Block is over to me,” she said. “All I want to do now is implore the network that when this show continues, there needs to be serious reform on how you prepare contestants.”

She also opened up about the “apology” that happened off-air, the truth about her “big argument” with Jesse, and the “pathetic email” she received from the show’s producers. Read about it all here.

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