The Block’s Tayla and Jolene face off in a fiery clash over extended hours

Things are heating up during Kitchen Week on The Block, with everything from tiffs over who is ramping up the temperature of the air-con in the share house to a full-blown body corporate bust-up that threatens to fracture friendships and, let’s be real, temporary acquaintanceships.

The worst of it comes as the teams race towards the finish line but Tayla and Rick struggle to complete the heart of their home.

Desperate for more time, Tayla calls a body corporate meeting to beg for a two-hour extension on Saturday, only to claim she is hung out to dry for a second time this season.

“I wouldn’t call the body corporates just by myself. I’d go around and speak to everyone first and see how they’re feeling and they’d say, ‘Yeah, let’s do it,’” personal trainer Tayla recalls. “Then, all of a sudden, everyone wouldn’t say a word and would leave me standing there like a lost little duck.”

Jolene, however, has little sympathy for Tayla, 32, calling her an “entitled brat” and suggesting that if Tayla was more focused and helpful to Rick, they wouldn’t need extra hours on site.

“I don’t think she’s ever been told no,” cattle station manager Jolene tells TV WEEK. “She was flippant and MIA the whole season.”

Tayla is also left feeling “betrayed” by her closest allies, Courtney and Sev, who she expected to support her. She points out that she had also grown closer to Jolene in the weeks before the body corporate, only to feel differently after watching the show back.

“She poured her heart out to us in the beginning, saying she was here to make friends – and Dad and I fell for it,” Tayla declares. “But now, watching the show back, I can see the snakey situation that my intuition could feel at the time.”

And the fall-out doesn’t end there. Next week, stolen pot plants and a team charity challenge gone wrong send tensions spiralling even further – in public!

“Jolene was screaming at me in Freedom,” Tayla says. “It was embarrassing for her.”

The Block airs Monday to Wednesday at 7.30pm and Sunday at 7pm on the Nine Network and 9Now.