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Blake Shelton left The Voice after 23 seasons with the show. He said that the decision was a long time coming, and he felt happy that he was able to spend more time with his family after he left. While he has said he has no plans to return, he admitted there was one scenario that could get him back. The show is reportedly pursuing him for its milestone 30th season.

‘The Voice’ reportedly wants Blake Shelton back for its 30th season

As the 30th season of The Voice approaches, NBC is reportedly working hard to get Shelton back on the show as a coach. He joined the show at the very beginning and remained on it for over 20 seasons. Producers reportedly want Shelton on the show now that Adam Levine has returned as a coach.

“For season 30, they want to go big since it will be a milestone year,” a source told the U.S. Sun. “Though the lineup isn’t finalized yet since filming for 30 won’t start until late Spring/early Summer 2026. There’s still time for changes and still all of season 29 to get through. But the producers are trying to lock in a deal to get Blake and Adam back together, they’ve wanted that for years and think 30 is an opportune time to make it happen.”

They reportedly also want Kelly Clarkson and Gwen Stefani to round out the group of coaches. This won’t be easy, though.

“The biggest challenge is getting Blake and Gwen back at all, it’s most likely going to cost the show a fortune to make that happen,” the source said. “And also booking Kelly on back-to-back seasons with her busy schedule and tough year. A lot of moving parts but they want to make it work.”

At this point, nothing is official, though.

Blake Shelton shared the only way he’d return to ‘The Voice’

Shelton has already shared the only scenario that would get him to return to the show. After exiting, he said he felt good about the decision. Still, he would come back if the original judges all did too.

“If they were ever able to put together the original four coaches again, maybe [I’d return] for one season, a one-off,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “That would be fun for me… That would be something I would be interested in doing.”

Shelton, Levine, Christina Aguilera, and CeeLo Green were the show’s original judges. Of the original four, only Levine is on the show right now.

He once said he stayed on the show for too long

Shelton is The Voice’s longest-running judge. He said he never intended to stay for as long as he did.

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“To be totally honest about it, I wasn’t even planning on being there that long,” Shelton said on The Jennifer Hudson Show (per Rolling Stone). “I was planning on wrapping it up around 20 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].”

He said that while he liked his time on the show, he didn’t exactly miss it when he left.

“So, I stayed,” he said. “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.”

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