<p id=”par-1_62″>By the time <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/blake-shelton/?swcfpc=1″>Blake Shelton</a> left <em><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/the-voice/?swcfpc=1″>The Voice</a></em>, he was more than ready to walk away from the job. He was a coach on the show for 23 seasons and likely would have left sooner if it hadn’t been for COVID-19. Still, he wanted a keepsake when he left. After a great deal of petitioning, Shelton said he got what he wanted.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-wanted-to-take-his-chair-from-the-voice-home-with-him”>Blake Shelton wanted to take his chair from ‘The Voice’ home with him</h2>
<p id=”par-2_19″>After 23 seasons on <em>The Voice,</em> Shelton said that the hardest thing about walking away was losing his chair. </p>
<p id=”par-3_45″>“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.”</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-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>
<p id=”par-4_20″>He didn’t have a problem with another <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-voice-no-longer-goal-finding-future-pop-stars-insider-reveals.html/”>coach replacing him</a>, but he didn’t want them to sit in his chair.</p>
<p id=”par-5_41″>“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>
<p id=”par-6_31″>He joked that he felt the show <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-voice-blake-shelton-wants-take-prop-final-season-they-owe-me.html/”>owed him the chair</a> after all the time he spent sitting on it. His tenure on the show was longer than any other coach’s.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-he-eventually-got-what-he-was-hoping-for”>He eventually got what he was hoping for</h2>
<p id=”par-7_23″>All his talk about the chair paid off. Once Shelton exited the show, he received his red chair at his home in Oklahoma. </p>
<p id=”par-8_49″>“I got my chair!” 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 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>
<p id=”par-9_15″>He didn’t mention if they included any of the cash he wanted in the packaging. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-said-he-doesn-t-miss-being-on-the-voice”>Blake Shelton said he doesn’t miss being on ‘The Voice’</h2>
<p id=”par-10_33″>While Shelton appreciated his time on <em>The Voice</em>, he’d been ready to leave several seasons before he actually did. He didn’t want to put the show in a bad position during COVID-19, however.</p>
<p id=”par-11_61″>“To be totally honest about it, I wasn’t even planning on being there that long,” Shelton said. “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-2″><img decoding=”async” src=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Gwen-Stefani-and-Blake-Shelton.webp?strip=all&quality=80″ alt=”Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton posing alongside each other for ‘The Voice’.” class=”wp-image-3786372″><figcaption class=”wp-element-caption”>Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani | NBC / Getty Images</figcaption></figure>
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<p id=”par-12_15″>He didn’t necessarily regret staying longer, but he admitted <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/blake-shelton-admitted-stayed-long-the-voice-miss.html/”>he doesn’t miss</a> being a coach.</p>
<p id=”par-13_32″>“I didn’t have anything to do anyway, so I stayed a little bit longer,” he said. “But I stayed too long for me to now miss it, I can promise you that.”</p>