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BLOCK SOLID

DARREN PALMER is comfortable with judgement. The interior designer from Gladstone in Queensland has built a reputation on dishing it out during nine years as a judge on TV juggernaut The Block. Yet when it comes to compliments on his impressive MH-ready rig, he’s quick to deflect.

“Thanks for saying that, but truth be told that shoot was a bit of a surprise,” a relieved Palmer tells me before saying this spread wasn’t something he’d trained specifically for. This is just how his body looks, the result of a lifestyle that has put him in the best shape of his life at 45.

I wrongly assumed that for Palmer, as a star on one of Australian TV’s most popular and

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