Tanya, who copped a fierce viewer backlash after finally confessing she was responsible for The Block’s season-long cheating scandal in last week’s finale, made a surprising new confession in a tell-all interview with Kyle and Jackie O this morning.After discussing the scandal and the resulting fallout, Tanya revealed that she was a contestant on the second season of Popstars, way back in 2001, which birthed the short-lived pop group Scandal’Us. Jackie O was a judge on the show, and Kyle Sandilands also made a brief appearance. “I was 19 … I remember you guys from all the way back then. You were awesome then, and awesome now,” she said.A look back at Popstars series 2 – all available on YouTube – shows several scenes of a 19-year-old Tanya making it through the show’s initial cattle call audition, then receiving the phone call to say she’d been selected as one of 30 finalists to travel to the Gold Coast for the final battle to make it into the band.Tanya told Kyle and Jackie O that she swore she’d never do reality TV again after her brief stint on Popstars, and her brutal final scene on the show may explain why: Called into a meeting with the judges, Tanya was asked how she thought she’d performed during that day’s workshop. “I think I did pretty well. I’m actually really proud of myself right now, I’m not going to hold that back,” she told them.“Well, good on you,” said judge Jason Coleman. “I’m glad that you’re proud of yourself, because we’re going to let you go.”And with that, she packed her bags and returned to Melbourne and a life of anonymity for more than 20 years – until this season of The Block made her arguably one of the most controversial figures in Australian reality TV history.Tanya last week opened up about the fallout from this season’s cheating scandal, revealing she tried to quit the show three times and had to contact police in the wake of the finale regarding abuse sent to her home.In a post to Instagram, Tanya said she and husband Vito wondered why The Block’s producers didn’t axe them from the competition when the controversy first surfaced, and claims they in fact tried to leave the show multiple times.She wrote that “the humiliation on national television is I can assure you is the biggest punishment of all,” telling her followers that “there have been many dark days, tears, feeling helpless.”In the end, Tanya and Vito finished the season in a respectable third place, taking home $400,000 profit from the sale of their home. It’s a safe bet that’s a lot more money than the members of Scandal’Us ever saw from sales of their one hit single Me, Myself & I.
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