‘The Block’ Cast Have Done A… Nude Photoshoot
Famed The Block buyer Adrian ‘Mr Lambo’ Portelli is known for his massive publicity stunts. In fact, his winning bid on Omar and Oz’s Block house last year raised his profile massively.
If you don’t know, Adrian runs a promotional company called LMCT+, where members of the club are entered to win some lux prizes: think property, cash, cars and more. He purchased not one, not two, but three houses this year at The Block 2023 auction, including Steph and Gian’s winning house.
He spent a whopping $12,400,000 total on Steph and Gian’s house, Eliza and Liberty’s house and Kyle and Leslie’s house – so it makes sense that he’s going to milk the publicity that comes with such an outrageous purchase.
But… I’m not sure that anybody had Adrian posing nude with Steph and Gian on their bingo card for this year. And after staring at his bizarre Instagram post, I’m still baffled about how this happened.
Adrian has staged a bizarre photoshoot with Steph and Gian. Image credit: Instagram/@adrian_portelli
But on investigation, it seems it’s all a ruse to get more eyeballs on his prizes. That’s not an innuendo, I promise.
One lucky LMCT+ member will walk away with the keys to House 4 in the near future, so Adrian staged an elaborate photoshoot inside the house with the couple. In the caption, he wrote: “This is what happens when we let Adrian off his leash! Who’s ready to win House number 4 from The Block? You’re in luck because the gates are opening this week.”
The first snap shows Gian eating sushi off Adrian’s naked body as he lies on their fancy kitchen island while Steph pretends to walk in on the pair. Other snaps show Gian and Adrian doing plenty of couple activities, like being nude in the bath, having a cheeky sauna together, spooning in bed and making some woodfired pizza in nothing but towels. Side note – hanging out nearly naked right by a hot pizza oven sounds like a bad idea.
The post has racked up over 43,000 likes and 1,700 comments, but I’ll leave you to judge it for yourself:
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Adrian Portelli’s subtle swipe at past The Block house winners.
There’s also one photo in the Instagram post that doesn’t fit the theme of Adrian and Gian’s ultimate bromance, and if you’ve followed any The Block drama over the past year, you’ll know exactly why Adrian included it.
In the snap, Adrian has donned a black ski mask and is raiding the wine cellar, with Steph and Gian watching from outside. This is a direct reference to some messy drama that went down earlier this year after Andrea and Kevin Griffin won Sharon and Ankur’s house from LMCT+.
According to the winning couple, Adrian allegedly took major items of value from the house before giving them the keys – including pricey Smeg appliances, a meat smoker, a treadmill… and $50,000 of wine.
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Adrian has previously described the winning couple as “ungrateful”, and said that the $4.5 million house was “fully furnished” plus the stamp duty – approx $300,000 – was also paid by his company.
Yikes. I hope the winners of Steph and Gian’s house are fully aware of what’s going to be included, otherwise, I’m sure we’ll never hear the end of it.
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Image credits: Channel 9, The Block