<p id=”par-1_54″>After 23 seasons, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/blake-shelton/?swcfpc=1″>Blake Shelton</a> stepped down from his role on <em><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/the-voice/?swcfpc=1″>The Voice</a></em>. Shelton said he enjoyed his time on the show, but has reportedly seen it as a relief to be done. He admitted he never intended to stay on as a coach for the singing competition for as long as he did. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-admitted-he-spent-too-much-time-on-the-voice”>Blake Shelton admitted he spent too much time on ‘The Voice’</h2>
<p id=”par-2_23″>Shelton <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/reba-mcentire-saved-the-voice-blake-shelton-left-carson-daly-reveals.html/”>left <em>The Voice</em></a> after season 23, which was longer than he’d intended on staying. He explained that COVID-19 pushed back his exit.</p>
<p id=”par-3_69″>“To be totally honest about it, I wasn’t even planning on being there that long,” Shelton said on <em>The Jennifer Hudson Show</em> (per <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/blake-shelton-stayed-too-long-to-miss-the-voice-1234886039/” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Rolling Stone</a>). “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].”</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-1″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Blake-Shelton-3.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Blake Shelton wears black and sits in a chair on ‘The Voice.’ He rests his hand on a button in front of him.” class=”wp-image-3793356″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Blake Shelton | Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
<p id=”par-4_21″>While he didn’t have much of a problem continuing on with the show, he doesn’t exactly miss it after his exit.</p>
<p id=”par-5_35″>“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.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-left-the-voice-to-spend-more-time-with-his-family”>Blake Shelton left ‘The Voice’ to spend more time with his family</h2>
<p id=”par-6_24″>Part of the reason why Shelton left the show was his desire to spend more time with his wife, Gwen Stefani, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/blake-shelton-says-stepparenting-gwen-stefanis-kids-can-difficult-biological-dad.html/”>and his stepchildren</a>. </p>
<p id=”par-7_64″>“I think being a stepdad has changed my perspective in that I’m not the first person that I think about anymore,” he told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoGBNQgLHA” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Access</a>. “Even to the small little things when you go, ‘I think I’ll do this,’ the very next thought is always, ‘Well, wait a minute. How’s that going work?’ Or, ‘What will they think?’ Or, ‘How will that affect a schedule?’” </p>
<p id=”par-8_24″>Stefani said the show, on top of all his other work, became too much, particularly considering how much time he was <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/gwen-stefani-shows-oklahoma-life-blake-shelton-including-purple-irises.html/”>away from home</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-9_79″>“I think that Blake — I don’t know, I think he just wants more time, you know what I mean?” Stefani told <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXVRlWlxa2w” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Extra</a>. “I don’t know that people realize, if he’s doing two seasons a year, right? In between that, he’s touring. So, he actually has two teams at the same time at a certain point, so they overlap. So, it’s a lot of brain power, it’s a lot of time <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/blake-shelton-quitting-the-voice-huge-family-choice-gwen-stefani-says.html/”>away from the family</a>, those kinds of things.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-he-took-home-a-keepsake-from-the-show”>He took home a keepsake from the show</h2>
<p id=”par-10_21″>As Shelton filmed his final season, he said his biggest regret was that he’d have to say <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-voice-blake-shelton-wants-take-prop-final-season-they-owe-me.html/”>goodbye to his chair</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-11_86″>“The hardest part about filming my final season of <em>The Voice</em> is I’m very territorial about this particular chair that I’m sitting in,” he told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/why-blake-shelton-doesnt-feel-good-about-giving-up-his-chair-on-the-voice” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>NBC Insider</a>. “I’m trying to negotiate and work out a deal where I can actually take my chair with me. I mean, it’s one thing to say, ‘I’m handing my chair off to the next coach’ or whatever, but I literally don’t want to hand my chair off to whoever the next coach is. I wanna take this one with me.”</p>
<figure class=”wp-block-image size-full” id=”emb-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Blake-Shelton-Voice-1.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Blake Shelton wears a suit and sits in his red chair on ‘The Voice,'” class=”wp-image-3793355″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Blake Shelton on ‘The Voice’ | Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-12_10″>Ultimately, though, he got to take it home with him. </p>
<p id=”par-13_42″>“I got my chair!” Shelton said, adding, “I told them it was the one thing I wanted — besides a bunch of money. I wanted to take home from <em>The Voice</em> my red chair! So they did, they sent it to Oklahoma.”</p>