By Michaela Gordoni
ROCK THE BLOCK star Mina Starsiak Hawk says there will be plenty of mischief to witness in the show’s seventh season.
“Although all of us that were on it were incredibly competitive, we all got along,” said Hawk. “We went to dinner outside of filming and hung out and did fun things and everyone getting along was lovely. It was refreshing.”
Hawk partners with retired NFL player and actor Vernon Davis as one of four teams competing.
The three other teams include RENOVATION RESORT SHOWDOWN’s Scott McGillivray and Brooke Hogan (daughter of Hulk Hogan); BATTLE ON THE BEACH’s Taniya Nayak and 98 Degrees singer Drew Lachey; and WHY THE HECK DID I BUY THIS HOUSE? host Kim Wolfe and fellow SURVIVOR alum Chelsea Meissner.
“There was so much shenanigans because we all had so much fun with each other,” Hawk said, adding that it stems from “the teams just messing with each other.”
“And there’s several instances where Vernon, my partner, who’s a giant ex NFL player, would just physically move someone that he didn’t want where they were,” she added. “…And I’m pretty sure Brooke got a couple solid tackles of Vernon because she’s a tall lady as well.”
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The new season takes place in Las Vegas.
“ROCK THE BLOCK is back, and we’re going all in Vegas style with a bold new lineup of teams,” said host Ty Pennington. “The stakes are higher than ever, and these duos are betting on great design in hopes of hitting the renovation jackpot.”
Hawk said there were interesting dynamics between all the teams.
“It’s like a new relationship. You have a new boyfriend and you’re like, ‘Okay, well, how do you like to do things? And how do we talk through disagreements and make decisions? And what do you care about and what do you not care about?’”
“And I think you’ll see in the season that some people’s partners were more agreeable than others, but in a fun way. Not in an angry, mean way,” she added.
Hawk always had confidence in her teammate, Davis.
“Knowing that he was a football player, knowing his position and when he played in the league, I was like, no matter what, he’s going to be a good teammate,” she recalled. “You just aren’t the kind of person that thinks you can do it all by yourself if you’re successful in the NFL for that long the way he was. So I knew that was going to be great.”
She admitted she might have tended to overthink things sometimes.
“Every decision I make, I also reflect on if I was a judge, this is what I would say about this,” she explained. “Or the thing that goes wrong that I don’t have the budget or time to fix — if I was a judge, this is what I would say and this is why I would dock you and you wouldn’t win.”
She added, “So while it’s definitely, I think, a bit of an edge to have both perspectives, it also was just mental gymnastics all the time.”
The show premieres on HGTV on April 13 with a special two-hour episode, per PEOPLE.
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