By Savanna Young For Daily Mail Australia
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The Block host Scott Cam has set the record straight on the house he is building alongside the contestants on this year’s season.
The Channel Nine reno show has implied Scott, 59, owns the house and is renovating it with his family in mind – but this isn’t actually the case.
The veteran builder explained on The Block’s podcast this week that while he has spent hundreds of gruelling hours transforming the 1866 weatherboard home from a rundown shack to a lavish country retreat, it’s not his to keep.
The Block host Scott Cam has set the record straight on the house he is building alongside the contestants on this year’s season
‘Something I need to point out – which my wife has asked me to point out – is that we don’t own that house,’ he told his co-host Shelley Craft.
‘That is not our house. Everybody is saying to my wife, “Are you going to move there? When are you going to sell it?” She and I have to explain all the time that [the house] belongs to the network.
‘It is not my house. I just built it as my house.’
The Channel Nine reno show has implied Scott, 59, owns the house (pictured) and is renovating it with his family in mind – but this isn’t actually the case
The veteran builder explained on The Block’s podcast this week that while he has spent hundreds of gruelling hours transforming the 1866 weatherboard home from a rundown shack to a lavish country retreat, it’s not his to keep
He continued: ‘Of course, my family is based in Sydney, and I built that house for some lucky other person to live in.’
It comes after viewers of The Block were left horrified after Scott revealed a unique detail in his own renovation on the show last month.
To add a bit of flair to the country home, he installed giant skylights in the shape of the Southern Cross to the roof of his shed.
‘Something I need to point out – which my wife has asked me to point out – is that we don’t own that house,’ he told co-host Shelley Craft
He continued, ‘Of course, my family is based in Sydney, and I built that house for some lucky other person to live in’
The Southern Cross was an iconic Australian symbol for years, but recently it has become a divisive emblem and associated with ‘boganism’.
It fell out of favour after it became associated with the Cronulla riots, with some perceiving the symbol as racist.
Fans took to social media to share their disgust over Scott’s roof design, calling the look ‘gross’, ‘bogan’ and ‘tacky’.
‘The only person wanting a Southern Cross skylight is a BLF (Builders’ Labourers Federation) fanatic and most of them don’t have $4 million+,’ one person tweeted.
It comes after viewers of The Block were left horrified after Scott revealed a unique detail in his own home renovation on the show last month
In a surprise twist in the 18th Season of The Block, Scott took on the combined role of leading the show while also being given his own country retreat to build
‘Scotty, that is SO bogan.’
Many other viewers agreed, with one fan tweeting, ‘Gotta say, the southern cross in the shed roof, TACKY AF.’
‘A southern cross skylight. I cannot,’ another wrote.
The home is a ‘weatherboard house’
It was constructed in 1866 by a Scottish immigrant named Joseph McGeorge
‘Scotty’s southern cross skylights are so gross,’ a viewer said, with another writing, ‘ewwwww southern cross skylights wtffff.’
Even contestants Sharon Johal and Ankur Dogra took a cheeky jab at the design after Scott said the move was inspired by his very own Southern Cross back tattoo.
‘When Scotty told us he had a Southern Cross tattoo to match his skylights we said “of course ya do”, because ya know, Straya,’ they captioned their photo on Instagram.
In a surprise twist in the 18th Season of The Block, Scott took on the combined role of leading the show while also being given his own country retreat to build.
Scott was given a head start over the rest of the contestants, beginning three months earlier
He then continued renovating the property at the same time the Blockheads were renovating their houses each week
His head start lead the builder to polish off three rooms early in the season, including a bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette
The home is a ‘weatherboard house’ which was constructed in 1866 by a Scottish immigrant named Joseph McGeorge.
Scott was given a head start over the rest of the contestants, beginning three months earlier since the homestead had been desolate for more than 25 years and was left ‘falling to bits’.
He then continued renovating the property at the same time the Blockheads were renovating their houses each week.
His head start lead the builder to polish off three rooms early in the season, including a bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette.
The homestead had been desolate for more than 25 years and was left ‘falling to bits’
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