FIONA & ADAM 'WE'D DO IT AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT'

Two decades after appearing on The Block, the season one winners welcome us into their family home

- Jenny Brown

One day, Adam Thorn hopes his daughter Shylah might become a chip off the old block and compete on a TV home renovation show alongside him.

Adam - who won the first season of The Block with wife Fiona Mills in 2003 - would "definitely" compete in the reno show again in a heartbeat. But he might need a new partner before that happens.

"One hundred per cent he would do it again," laughs mother-of-two Fiona. "But I'd have to have a long hard think about it. I don't think I've got a thick enough skin to cope with the social media pressure on contestants today.

"We had a good shot at it and it was great, but I'd probably have to let Ad go with someone else now. Shylah might team up for a father-daughter partnership in 10 years time, you never know!"

Amazingly, for most of their lives, 12-year-old Shylah and sister Aria, 10, had been blissfully unaware of their parents' top-rating reality TV fame, which still sees them recognised from the Baltics to Bali.

"They didn't find out about it until about three years ago," smiles Fiona, who runs a successful cosmetic laser beauty business. "They had been watching one of the recent series of The Block and were really getting into it.