The Block’s Dani Reilly has shared a special message from Daylesford as filming for the 21st season gets underway.

Dani, who joins husband and Foreman Dan Reilly, marked one week on-site by thanking three very important people in their lives.

“I’ve been in Daylesford just over a week now & the 3 biggest holes that have opened up since being alone a lot more, can only be filled by these 3 humans,” Dani began.

“The outside world doesn’t necessarily care but I feel it important [to] share how critical it is to have layers of friends and family in a time like this.”

It’s been an incredibly difficult time for the couple, following the passing of their 10-day-old daughter Billie Vera Reilly in December 2024.
Dan and Dani are currently filming The Block in Victoria. (Instagram/@danreilly_official)
Earlier this week, Dan confirmed the pair would be returning to regional Victoria for what will be “a massive” Block season.

Being away from family and friends however “hits so differently now” and there’s three people they couldn’t have done it without.

Dani thanked Billie’s Godmother Kirra, who they saw “everyday, multiple times a day, for over a month after losing Billie”.

“She organised a meal train within our local community, to ensure we didn’t have to think about meals for 6 weeks,” she wrote.

“She cried with me but was strong for me. She shielded me from things I couldn’t see or hear yet about other children.”

Dani shared a photo from the first time she went out in public, exactly one month after Billie passed.
Dani and Dani pictured with their friend Kirra (middle). (Instagram / @dani_wales)
Pictured with Kirra, Dani supported her friend as she swam the Portsea Swim Classic.

“She swam for our girl & smashed the race,” she revealed.

Dani also thanked friends Alex and Mitch who “just sat with us & let us have the same sad round in circles conversations while we tried to make sense of what had happened”.
Dani reflects on the support of her friends. (Instagram / @dani_wales)
While Dan and Dani are excited to be filming the new Block season, earlier this week Dani revealed she was “heartbroken” she would be doing so without Billie.

“As you can imagine, this next period was supposed to be something it’s now not,” Dani wrote at the time.

“The hardest part of the next three months will now be surrendering to what this time actually is in real time and not holding expectations or resentment about what it’s now not.

“Anyway, the term ‘go gently’ is used a lot in this world of grief so that’s what we’ll try and do.”
Dan and Dani mark one week on-site. (Instagram / @danreilly_official)
In December 2024, Dan and Dani announced the devastating news that their daughter Billie had passed away in a social media post.

“It is with insurmountable grief that we share the news that our daughter Billie, has passed on from this life and into the next at just 10 days young,” the couple wrote.

“In Billie’s short time in this world, she taught us an intensity of both love and pain we never knew possible. She taught us what really matters.

“Billie was so wanted, so loved and she made us parents… and what an honour it is to be her mummy and daddy. She will always be our daughter.”

The post continued: “We understand there will be questions, and so many of the answers we just don’t have yet.

“We’ll share more in time but for now we ask for privacy as we work through this together and with our loved ones.”

Since then, Dani has been extremely open and vulnerable about their grief and have kept Billie’s memory alive by sharing photos of her beautiful life.

Australia came to know and love Dan and Dani in 2012 when they became contestants on The Block while they were dating and left with a life-changing $448,000.

Dan and Dani returned in 2013 for the The Block All Stars series, taking home a profit of $220,000, and Dan later became foreman on The Block.

The pair tied the knot in 2018 after nine years together in an intimate ceremony on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.