Diana Wichtel: The Block’s brush with reality

The Block’s commercial foundations are showing.

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21st July, 2012

Keeping up with those mythically aspirational smart alecs, the Joneses, used to be as simple as having whiter whites flapping on the line. Now it means having to Botox your entire life. Apparently, we are so lacking in genuine challenges these days that there’s nothing for it but to take to our dwellings – and to our bodies, if those terrifying extreme-makeover shows are an indication – with sharp tools in increasingly masochistic rituals of self-improvement. Even children can’t escape makeover madness. Cue tearful scenes as, chucked into the coliseum of reality television, the poor ...

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