Mitch Edwards and Mark McKie, the Bondi couple from Season 19 of The Block are returning to the new ‘Fans v Faves’ season of the show and they have one request, nay, demand – ‘Stop referring to us as the gay granddads’.“We were described continuously last season as the ‘gay granddads’… we were never the couple who have a family,” Mitch told Star Observer, pointing out that the term was a “double whammy”, that focussed on their sexuality as well as their age.
Mitch and Mark spoke to Star Observer on the phone in late July in the middle of Sydney’s COVID-19 lockdown. They revealed that the invitation to return to the show “came out of the blue”, and they initially thought they were only required for a couple of episodes. “We were planning a.
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