“Grumpy” Grant put on blast by Foreman Dan for cheating

While The Block has experienced its fair share of cheating scandals, the latest to occur is one of the most explosive yet!

Last week House 2’s Grant, who has been dubbed ‘grumpy’ by cast and crew alike came to loggerheads with Foreman Dan over gyprock.

Alongside his wife Courtney, the couple were accused of over-ordering the construction material used to create walls and ceilings, thus giving themselves an unfair advantage over the competition

Now, he and his wife Courtney have been called out for breaking the rules once more after entering the site office – which is off-limits to contesters and tradies alike – under the guise of discussing their landscaping plans.

Inside the office, are details regarding the upcoming build and competition – things that teams should not be private to.

In a heated exchange, Dan asks Grant: “Mate, do you think you’re better than everyone else on this site? Do you think you have special privileges above everyone else? The rules are the rules.”

While Grant denied that he and his wife felt like they were “above the rules”, he refused to accept that any wrongdoing had occurred.

“It wasn’t like I was making myself at home, having a cup of tea,” he shared.

After an earlier run-in with Ricky who accused them of not paying their trades, it became too much for Courtney who stormed offsite to cool down from the drama of the day.

It was only a few days prior that the couple had another heated confrontation with the Foreman site.

“He (Foreman Dan) thinks that we are putting ourselves at an unfair advantage because we accidentally overordered on some gyprock his week,” a visibly frustrated Grant told the cameras at the time, denying claims of cheating.

According to Dan, the team had ordered more than 40 sheets of Gyprock for four walls, much more than what could be attributed to a simple mistake.

“If you do four walls, you don’t need forty sheets,” Dan explained to Grant before revealing there would be “consequences” for freaking a cardinal rule on The Block: “Thou shalt not order materials in excess of current week’s needs.”

But they weren’t the only team to overorder, with additional Gyprock arriving onsite for Maddie and Charlotte and Kristian and Mimi.

While the Sydney-based sisters were able to avoid Foreman Dan’s fury due to the gyprock being ordered by Jesse and Paige, Team Yellow and Team Purple weren’t so lucky – with Grant throwing his friends under the bus.

Fast forward to the Monday of week seven and Dan made sure to let everyone know at pre-start that Grant was the one who requested an audit of each team, and their “accidental” over-ordering of building materials.

He also revealed that Grant had been the one to tell him that Ricky and Haydn had missed the compulsory pre-start on Saturday.

As punishment, Houses 2, 3, and 5 get shut down for an hour, much to the frustration of Kristian and Mimi, and the boys.

Grant is especially upset to be labeled a nark, and goes as far as to call Dan a “flat out liar” (even though he was captured on camera dobbing in his fellow contestants).

“I know everyone has been stacking plaster on site for the past four weeks and they haven’t been punished for that,” Grant shared with Dan just days prior, claiming he and wife Courtney had been unfairly targeted.

But Dan wasn’t having a bar of it, especially after having prior conversations with Grant over pre-ordering furniture:

“You’re taking the p*ss out of me, so I’m going to shut you down. I told you the other day don’t pre-order. You look at authority like it’s nothing,” Dan vented, adding that the Red Team had “disrespected” him.

“We don’t have space on the job for you overordering things. The furniture was one thing, now you’ve done it with plaster.”

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