When asked point-blank by Jennifer Hudson if he misses being on The Voice, Blake Shelton responded simply with: "Not yet. I mean, I did that for 23 seasons."
The Voice's Season 24 is ongoing and marks the first without Shelton in one of the spinning coaches' chairs.
"To be totally honest about it, you know, I wasn't even planning on being there that long," Shelton said on Friday's (Nov. 17) episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show. "I was planning on wrapping it up around 20 seasons or 21 seasons, and then obviously COVID hit, and then I didn't want to walk out on the show in the middle of COVID and them trying to scramble and figure out what to do.
"So, I stayed," he continued. "I didn't have anything to do anyway, so I stayed a little bit longer. But I stayed too long for me to now miss it, I can promise you that."
"I got my chair. I told them it was the one thing I wanted— besides a bunch of money," he joked. "I wanted my red chair. So they did, they sent it to Oklahoma."
The Voice sent one chair to Oklahoma and filled a new one with an Oklahoman in Shelton's replacement, Reba McEntire.
Shelton has few, if any, regrets about his time on The Voice. It's the job that positioned him to meet not just his close friend and Barmageddon buddy Carson Daly but also his spouse, current coach Gwen Stefani.
"It all goes back to The Voice. The Voice connected everything," said Shelton. "It literally changed my life in so many ways. I mean, look at the family right there. That's the No. 1 way it did."
