Blake Shelton Mocks Adam Levine On ‘The Voice’ After Singer’s Exit – Hollywood Life

April 5, 2023

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THE VOICE -- Season: 23 -- Pictured: (l-r) Niall Horan, Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton, Chance the Rapper -- (Photo by: Art Streiber/NBC) — Picture Credit score: Trae Patton/NBC

Adam Levine remains to be dwelling hire free in Blake Shelton’s thoughts! It’s been seven seasons since Adam sat subsequent to Blake within the pink coaches’ chairs on The Voice, however in the course of the present’s April 4 episode, Blake nonetheless poked enjoyable at his former co-star. Amidst the Battle Spherical performances, it was revealed that certainly one of Blake’s contestants, Adam Whalen, had dropped out of the present for private causes, leaving his Battle accomplice, Neil Salsich to carry out on his personal. “I advised him backstage, should you lose this Battle, will probably be the worst fail in historical past,” Blake joked. “I imply, like, Adam Levine ranges of failure!”

That is Blake’s final season as a coach on the hit NBC present. He’s been with the collection from the very starting, with 23 seasons beneath his belt. In the meantime, Adam’s last season was season 16 in the course of the spring of 2019. He had been subsequent to Blake from season 1, as nicely, at that time. Adam’s determination to leave the show was introduced after he already signed on for season 17.

Adam had three artists win The Voice throughout his tenure on the present. Nonetheless, throughout his last two seasons, none of his singers made the finals. “I used to be able to not be doing it anymore, I believe for a bit of bit,” Adam admitted on The Howard Stern Present in Oct. 2019. “I believe that when all of it sort of naturally occurred, I used to be like…okay, it feels proper. For higher or worse, the second wherein we determined to stroll away felt actually good. It was the suitable time for me to go.”

Whereas Adam has cited desirous to spend extra time along with his household as his primary motive for leaving the present, there have been studies that he was additionally sad with how issues had been shaping up on the present throughout his previous few seasons. TVLine additionally reported that Adam had turn out to be “tough” to work with whereas the coaches had been selling the present’s sixteenth season. Adam and NBC have by no means commented on these rumors.

In Might 2021, Adam returned to The Voice for the primary time since his departure. He took the stage in the course of the present’s season 20 finale to carry out “Lovely Errors” along with his band Maroon 5 and Megan Thee Stallion.