The current coronavirus pandemic has resulted in thousands of people around the world losing their lives. But it has also had a hugely detrimental effect on the economy, with an estimated one million Australian’s losing their jobs last week – including the 2018 winners of The Block, Sara and Hayden Vale.
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In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Sara – who shares three-year-old daughter, Harlow and 11-month-old son, Lawson with Hayden – admitted that the couple had spent the entirety of their $645,000 The Block winnings, and neither of them are earning an income at present.
Sara, a flight attendant, is currently on maternity leave but does not know whether she’ll have a job to go back to due to the fact her employer, Virgin Australia last week temporarily stood down 8,000 of its 10,000 staff.
“I called up my manager yesterday and said ‘I just want to know now, who’s been let go and who hasn’t’ and she goes, ‘you were due to come back in August but now we’ve cancelled all the return to work dates. After this mess, if there is an airline to come back to you will hold your job, unfortunately we don’t know’,” Sara told the publication.
“They said there’s a lot of restructuring… so I don’t have a job pretty much. At the moment I’ve got nothing.”
Furthermore, the couple have invested all their money – including their well-over half-a-million prize money from winning The Block – on the home they are building on the South Coast.
They sold their two-bedroom North Bondi home last month for $1,225,000, which is $250,000 more than they paid four years ago.
“All the money that we won when we were on The Block is all gone now because we’ve had a house that we had to put money into, we used all that money for our house,” Sara said.
The reality star concluded that she is considering going back to work as an interior designer to earn extra cash, while Hayden, who isn’t able to continue his job as the director and manager of a construction company due to strict coronavirus restrictions is considering taking on odd jobs to make ends meet.
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