Monday’s episode will include a viewer competition to win $10,000 thanks to Finder, according to a new promo shown tonight. You will need to watch the episode and follow the prompts to enter, when you hear the Finder jingle.
Eye-watering salaries for The Voice judges revealed
The salaries for this year’s series of The Voice Australia have reportedly been revealed for the first time.
This year’s series of the popular singing competition stars coaches Richard Marx, Mel C, Kate Miller-Heidke and Ronan Keating.
According to The Daily Mail, Mel C and Richard Marx scored a huge payday from Channel 7 for their roles on the show.
It’s believed the two international judges were offered an eye-watering sum of “north of $1 million” for their debut season.
“What a shock” that they are paid that much. Said noone.
Blind auditions 7
Ellaphon Ta, 27, Auckland NZ - Youth worker. Had a troubled childhood himself, music was his saviour. He’s a new dad to a baby girl. His wife and six-week-old baby girl joined him for his audition
Song: The Middle by Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan
Coaches comments:
Richard Marx: “You are on the list of one of the greatest voices I’ve ever heard.”
Kate Miller-Heidke: “That transported me to another world.”
Melanie C: “You were singing directly from your soul.”
Ronan Keating: “What a voice! I had goosebumps!”
Cherie Sandoval, 35, Gold Coast QLD - She is a Chilean Australian. She was a professional Brazilian Samba dancer.
Song: Livin’ la Vida Loca by Ricky Martin
Chair turns: Three (Richard, Kate and Melanie)
Team: Melanie C
Coaches comments:
Melanie: “You kind of went from strength to strength. You didn’t tire yourself out. So incredible stamina.”
Kate: “You are just a born performer. Your stage presence is magnetic.”
Richard: “You crushed it. You were like, I got this. You didn’t sound out of breath.”
Euan Hart, 25, Sydney NSW
Song: Dreams by Fleetwood Mac
Chair turns: Two (Ronan and Kate)
Team: Kate
Coaches comments:
Kate*: “I was totally transfixed.”*
Ronan: “You look like a star.”
Olivia Coe Fox, 21, Sydney NSW – Olivia is a Wiradjuri woman whose family is from Central West NSW. She sings an Australian classic, integrating Yawuru (First Nations/Indigenous Language spoken in Kimberley region of Western Australia, around Broome. This has never happened in Blind Audition on The Voice before.
Song: I am Australian by The Seekers **Ronan and Kate were teary-eyed listening to her sing.
Chair turns: Four
Team: Ronan **He Blocked Kate
Coaches comments:
Kate: “I just got fully body goosebumps. I have such a love for that song, I think that should be the national anthem.”
Ronan: “I was incredibly moved by that performance.”
Richard: “You can sing a menu is Chinese takeaway store and I’ll be like I want all of it. And something about the greatest voice on any singing show ever.”
Sunday 31 August
It’s the final night of the Blind auditions! Melanie C and Richard have already filled their teams and pressure is at an all time high to win one of the final spots on Team Kate and Team Ronan.
Melanie C features on 7News Spotlight this Sunday, following the auditions episode.
After that episode the show will air on Sundays only starting with The Battles the following week
Ronan and Kate’s team (i think) only have one spot to fill each. So is this Sunday’s show of nearly 90 minutes going to focus on those last two positions? It’s going to be a lot of padding…
Just in case she wasn’t appearing on enough 7 shows already?
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Next years Logies will probably list Spotlight as one of the shows she has hosted in the previous year - just like the 30 minute “Logies Red Carpet Show”.
Not much different to Carols by Candlelight and ABC NYE being nominated as Best Entertainment Program,
when they air one night a year.
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Blind auditions 8
Tiffney Reynolds, 34, Yorke Peninsula, SA
Song: When You’re Gone by Bryan Adams featuring Melanie C
Chair turns: 4
Team: Ronan
Meg Drummond, 43, NSW
Song: Everybody’s Free / I Want Your Soul / Rapture
Chair turns: 4
Team: Melanie C (she used the Ultimate Block)
Cecily De Gooyer, 17, Inverloch, Victoria
Song: Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera
Chair turns: 2
Team: Kate
Bella Parnell, 21, Sydney, NSW
Song: A Song for You by Leon Russell
Chair turns: 3
Team: Richard
Team Melanie C and Team Richard are full.
What’s the point of having the same contestants again and again on reality shows?
Cle Morgan on The Voice tonight has been on Australian Idol before. I still recognise her as a child actor Cleonie Morgan-Wootton from TV series Ship to Shore. Plus she’s an accomplished theatre performer last seen in Matilda, the Musical.
So why is she on The Voice?
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I agree. Is the talent pool for the auditions that small?
Recent contestants from other reality shows, and seasoned peformers shouldn’t apply.
Cassie Henderson has had multiple NZ charted songs and did The X Factor NZ (got to the last eight) in 2013 or so as a teenager.
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Team Kate and Team Ronan were complete following the final audition last night, with Saralyn taking the last spot.
The Battles begin next Sunday (September 8) and will run for three weeks.
The Battles begin! Fourteen artists will step into the ring, paired off to deliver duets of the same song. But there can only be one winner per battle, forcing the coaches to make tough decisions.
Format (from Seven’s press kit in June)
The preview shows all four coaches pressing the save button at once, after a battle.
Did anyone else see Sonia Kruger sniffing a baby? I thought it was very bizarre.
They smell a lot better than old age pensioners. 
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Battles explainer: When the Blind Auditions are over and the Coaches have assembled their teams of 10 artists, the Battles begin. In this round, artists from each team face off in pairs. This season sees 20 Battles – five per Coach team – with only one winner emerging from each. In a dramatic twist, each Coach also has the power to save one additional artist – from their own team or another – who would otherwise be eliminated.
Cecily De Gooyer vs James Van Cooper
Team Kate
Song: I was made for loving you by KISS
Winner: James Van Cooper
Meg Drummond vs XAZ
Team Melanie C
Song: Dirty Cash (Money Talks) by The Adventures of Stevie V
Winner: Meg Drummond
Cait Jamieson vs Bianka Jakovljevic
Team Richard
Song: That’s freedom by John Farnham
Winner: Bianka Jakovljevic
Ellaphon Ta Vs Alyssa Delpopolo
Team Ronan
Song: Gravity by John Mayer
Winner: Ellaphon Ta
**All four Coaches saved Alyssa. But after they all pitched Alyssa decided to go to Team Kate.
**Kate has used her only Save on Alyssa.
Cherie Sandoval vs Lilli Vitagliano
Team Melanie C
Song: Training Season by Dua Lipa
Winner: Lilli Vitagliano
Charlie O’Derry vs Branton Kneen
Team Kate
Song: Fade into you by Mazzy Star
Winner: Charlie O’Derry
Chris Cobb vs Mitchell Dormer
Team Ronan
Song: Bed of roses by Bon Jovi
Winner: Mitchell Dormer
**Ronan, Richard and Melanie saved Chris. He chose Team Richard.
**Richard has used his only Save on Chris