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The Block: “It takes a village”

Shelley Craft explains how Block teams must hire their own trades, bit it's never been at the scale of the Tree Change series.

Building for The Block: Tree Change enters its final week next week, with producers assuring media it will meet its deadline, despite desperate pleas for more trades people to pick up tools.

Co-presenter Shelley Craft says the houses will be spectacular even though teams were exhausted from the workload, shared with on site tradies.

“They have to find their own trades. They have to source all their own workers and build a team from scratch in a very, very short period of time, and to build that camaraderie.

“It does take a team to build a house like this. We don’t joke that the contestants do all the work themselves. I know not in the early days of The Block, the contestants did do a lot of the work. But now it really does take a village, in each and every house to get the work done in the timeframes that the contestants have got.

“I have had the best time this season. I think I’m the only one that every time I turn up on The Block has a great day! I love being a part of it. I love the fact that when I do turn up, there’s always something different. It is a moving set for me. Every time I turn up, there’s something new and exciting and hopefully a little bit of light relief for the contestants along the way as well.”

The series is expected in August with its first rural setting, in Gisborne, north west of Melbourne.

“I made the Tree Change to Byron about 14 years ago, myself. To see it happening here in Gisborne, an area that I’ve obviously explored as a tourist, but never had the opportunity to stay for long. It’s a great part of Victoria -20 minutes from the airport, and I do this twice a week.”

“Whoever our owners are of these new homes, I know they’re going to have a wonderful life and they’ve got an entire television show of their own build.”

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