The Block winner Ozman ‘Oz’ Abu Malik landed himself in some hot water over the weekend for pulling a bizarre prank.
Oz, who took home $1.6m during the show’s 2022 finale alongside best friend Omar, staged a fake auction for a stranger’s home.
He arrived at a randomly selected property in Western Sydney on Saturday, with an auctioneer and a group of actors posing as buyers in tow.
Film crew pushed realty signs into the lawn before the auction got underway.
Oz watched with glee from his car as the owner of the home got into an altercation with the hired auctioneer on his own front lawn.
‘Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I welcome you here today for a property in a great spot – presented to you by Oz Realty,’ the male auctioneer boomed. ‘Buyers, it’s over to you! $1million, bidder number six, over there! Here it goes!’
The Block winner Ozman ‘Oz’ Abu Malik landed himself in some hot water over the weekend for pulling a bizarre prank
Oz, who took home $1.6m during the show’s 2022 finale alongside best friend Omar, staged a fake auction for a stranger’s house
Oz watched with glee from his car as the owner of the house got into an altercation with the hired auctioneer on his own front lawn
In footage shared to Instagram on Tuesday, the unsuspecting homeowner flipped out as he walked outside and discovered the scene – and his demands for the auction to be stopped were ignored.
The auctioneer yelled the house was going ‘once’ then ‘twice’ as two bewildered looking men opened their front door.
‘Woah woah woah!’ the homeowner called out as he took in the scene unfolding before his very eyes with confusion, then anger. ‘This is private property mate.’
‘Imagine being woken up to this,’ Oz snickered from inside his parked vehicle.
‘You’re disrupting an auction,’ the auctioneer called back to the owner, who asked for the address of the house being sold.
The man, dressed in a singlet and shorts and still holding his dog’s lead, became increasingly agitated as the ‘bidders’ and ‘auctioneer’ ignored him.
‘No I’m sorry. STOP. I’m the homeowner,’ he said while pointing to the door he’d just walked out of.
‘I don’t care who you’re with. I own this house. I’m being serious, there’s no auction today. What’s the house number?’
He pushed through the crowd of people saying ‘not today’ and tried to pull down the film crew’s cameras.
The homeowner woke up to the convincing scene and became angry as the hired auctioneer (left) refused to stop selling off his house
The house was ‘sold’ for $1.17million
‘Sir please, can I make a suggestion?’ the auctioneer asked.
‘You can make a suggestion but it’s not going to work in your favour,’ the owner quipped, with Oz saying he’d become ‘aggressive’ as someone seeming purchased his house for $1.17million.
‘My parents are not selling this house! They’ve owned it for 25-30 years!’ the man said.
‘They have no idea what’s going on, they don’t even speak English. Show us the paperwork! What’s on your clipboard? No paperwork, no contract, no nothing!’
Oz then hopped out of his car and revealed himself: ‘Guys, it’s a prank show!’
He gave the homeowner a big bear hug and watched relief and a huge smile spread across the man’s face.
‘Look at your face man! Get the man some water,’ Oz told him.
Things ended in laughter as the man jokingly told Oz he may as well sell it if everyone was already there.
The viral video promoted the ‘Impromptu Auctions with Oz’ series and asked other Aussies to drop the address of anyone they wanted pranked.
Sydney-based best friends Oz and Omar were crowned the winners of The Block: Tree Change in 2022, when they sold their property for $5,666,666 to friend Adrian Portelli, making the Melbourne businessman a household name
Sydney-based best friends Oz and Omar were crowned the winners of The Block: Tree Change in 2022, when they sold their property for $5,666,666 and took home a record-breaking profit of $.16million.
The controversial win was sealed by the duo’s billionaire pal Adrian Portelli, who got into a bidding
war with serial Block bidder Danny Wallis.
Portelli was dubbed ‘Lambo Guy’ in the press because he arrived at the auction in a striking yellow Lamborghini.
Today, Oz still runs his building company Zenith, and makes social media content on the side.
Meanwhile, the Block billionaire continued to snap up houses in 2023, and 2024, making Maddy and Charlotte Harry the youngest-ever auction winners of the show.
The sisters took home an eye-watering $1.65million profit, with Portelli saying Philip Island would be his final Block buy.
