Reba McEntire is setting the file straight about her first season as a coach on The Voice.
The nation singer, 68, at the moment serves as a decide alongside veteran panelists John Legend, Gwen Stefani and Niall Horan. To this point this season, McEntire has had a troublesome time getting contestants to affix her staff, with six of her 13 staff members being recruited by default.
McEntire’s obvious onscreen struggles have come amid studies that she’s annoyed together with her costars, fueling rumors that she’s sad in her new gig.
In a brand new interview, nonetheless, McEntire clarified the scenario, saying that she’s really having “the very best time.” Whereas attending the Carry Change to Thoughts gala on Monday, October 9, McEntire spoke with Further about her expertise on The Voice.
“We’re having a blast,” she mentioned. “It’s competitors, it’s enjoyable rivalry, however we’ve got the very best time on that present. And what blows me away is the quantity of expertise [that] retains approaching. We’re in season 24 and the expertise is unbelievable. I hope everyone watches.”
When requested who she goes “face to face” with probably the most, McEntire quipped that she and former One Course member Horan, 30, are ”at all times type of sparring.”
McEntire additionally mentioned that she discovered Stefani, 54, “so intimidating” at first. “I believed she was being imply to me, after which she mentioned, ‘I simply need you to love me,’ and I mentioned, ‘Nicely, that’s all you needed to say,’” McEntire recalled. “And we’re finest associates.”
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McEntire went on to squash rumors that she plans to exit the present earlier than the season ends, saying, “Nicely, not proper but, we’re not by means of!”
McEntire has already been confirmed as a decide for season 25, which is ready to premiere in spring 2024. Her fellow coaches will embody John Legend, Likelihood the Rapper and the present’s first-ever teaching duo, nation pop artists Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney (who file as Dan + Shay).
McEntire introduced in Could she was becoming a member of the competitors present following fellow nation star Blake Shelton’s exit. Shelton, 47, had served as a coach on The Voice because it premiered in April 2011.
“I’m trying ahead to being right here with all of y’all,” she advised The Voice host Carson Daly throughout a season 23 episode during which she served as a mega mentor. “You’ve handled me so properly. I admire the hospitality a lot that you just confirmed me earlier. And to have the ability to are available and type my staff? I’m so trying ahead to it.”
