Their game plan was seen as controversial among fans but the couple avidly “disagree” that they did anything wrong.“From very early on you are allowed to engage with your agent. Auctioneers usually come with agencies but we went and got our own one,” Steph told theGian agreed, and said that producers had no issue when their tactics so didn’t understand why viewers would consider them controversial.
“At the end of the day The Block is a competition for who will sell their house for the most money at auction and how do you win? You need to have the A-team working with you.” Steph and Gian have defended themselves and insisted they played the game fairly. Picture from Supplied/Channel 9. “When we got the call that we were on The Block in February, the first thing we did, I think three days later, we called Tom Spanos our auctioneer,” they told“He was the first person we called and engaged, and people probably wouldn’t think that. As soon as you find out you’re on the Block, why would you call an auctioneer?”