The Block 2025 Episode 22 recap: As Sonny and Alicia despair, Mat summons his inner Mean Boy

Ever diplomatic Ben and Emma and Britt and Taz found some kind words to say about Sonny and Alicia’s disastrous living/dining room when the teams inspected one another’s rooms, but they were the only ones.

The others didn’t mince their words, and that included Sonny and Alicia themselves.

“I love Sonny and Cher so much but look, can we talk about the lounge room?” Mat asked. “Their lounge room has got a three-seater that really is a two-seater and a single armchair. The house sleeps potentially 10! I am speechless.”

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When Sonny and Alicia saw the other teams’ rooms her deflation turned to outright self-loathing.

“I felt so disappointed in myself and just embarrassed that was the best I could do. We deserved to come last,” she said.

That capped off a rotten day for the pair, with neither able to muster much will to keep going. On top of the judges’ criticism, they were down about the fact they were missing their little boy’s ninth birthday, and when a family friend called them to let them know she was planning to surprise him with some balloons and presents it was too much for Sonny, and he left the car crying.

“Sonny is a very positive person. He’s usually the one that picks us up so when he’s down I don’t know how to cope,” Alicia said.

She ended up being comforted by Britt and a tiling Cursio brother while Sonny got a loving pep talk from Taz in a heartwarming scene that ended with both men telling one another “love you mate”.

The teams were working on their rumpus rooms, with a slender $10,000 to spend.

Most teams were choosing some kind of second living/theatre room arrangement, with couches, TVs and shelving a common theme.

Britt and Taz on the other hand, were creating what they were confident was the first “wellness area” on The Block 2025. They’d ordered two reformer Pilates machines to go in their room along with two full length mirrors flanking a TV. They also revealed that their room would open out on to an outdoor area featuring a spa, cold plunge pool and sauna.

Mat and Robby were planning the do the bare minimum in their room in order to save money for their no-longer-so-secret wine cellar. By putting nothing more than a couch and TV in their room they were plotting to not only save case from their budget but also win the $10,000 budgeting prize.

They were also finally heeding Dan’s advice and staying on site to help their builder, rather than paying him to insulate which a horrified Dan discovered him doing last week.

But first they headed off for a night with Scott Cam at a trout farm, where they witnessed the farm owner’s two-year-old grandson crash a car into a tree in what was a Block, and possibly an Australian, first. Miraculously, nobody was hurt.

Back on site Han and Can were working hard to repair their relationship with Sonny and Alicia after last week’s copying accusations. Whether it was a simple coincidence or something more sinister, Han needed to clear the air, so took Alicia aside.

“Honestly from the bottom of my heart I’d give you the shirt off my back. I want you to know that,” she said.

Alicia appeared ready to put the matter, and the residual awkwardness, to bed.

“To be honest, I’d just rather accept that apology and move on. Things are going to happen here, it is what it is,” she said.

But that didn’t mean things weren’t festering, not helped by Mat’s inconsiderate decision to deliberately exclude Han and Can from a group pub dinner to which everyone else was invited.

Emma offered to ride share with Han and Can to the event only be told by Han “I don’t think

we’re invited. It’s not that vibe.”

“I’m sure you’d be invited. It’s everyone. Did Robby message you,” a dismayed Emma asked.

“No message, that’s enough,” Han replied before slamming the caravan door shut.

Mat was unrepentant, claiming the fact both Han and Can were ill was the reason he excluded them.

“They were not invited. They were sick. They were extremely unwell and I didn’t want to be in that position,” he said.

“It would have been nice to be asked, and we could have been the adults and said no sorry, we are too sick,” Han fairly reasonably said when asked about the exclusion by a producer.

It was hard not to feel sorry for her when the producer then asked if she had ever felt deliberately excluded before. While it was a first for Can, Han shrugged and said she’d been used to that kind of treatment at high school.

“It’s not my first rodeo. I’m an adult. It didn’t upset me that much. If I let that affect me I would not survive here, that’s for sure.”

Come on Mat, don’t be that guy.

MISSED AN EPISODE? HERE’S ALL OUR RECAPS SO FAR

Episode 1: Why no NSW applicants were good enough for The Block

Episode 2: The worst day on The Block

Episode 3/4: ‘Tear them off’: teams forced to rip tiles from walls

Episode 5: Judges feedback leaves one contestant vomiting

Episode 6: Dan and Dani’s heartbreak

Episode 7: The big problem with the Block house designs

Episode 8: Robby and Mat’s drunken blunder

Episode 9: ‘An up-market nursing home’

Episode 10: Can faces the wrath of Han

Episode 11: Han micromanaging from her sick bed

Episode 12: Sonny cops a spray from Alicia

Episode 13: Brutal feedback leaves Block team confused

Episode 14: Han and Can are in trouble with Dan, and other contestants

Episode 15: Han explodes at Dan in shocking tirade

Episode 16: Defiant Han gets epic dressing down from Scott Cam

Episode 17: Two teams are smashed by hyperbolic judges

Episode 18: Two teams start the week devastated by judges’ feedback

Episode 19: Copying scandal erupts as Alicia and Sonny point the finger

Episode 20: Ben and Emma drop good news into tense Block week

Episode 21: Ben and Emma and Sonny and Alicia cop the wrath of the judges