Is that your way of pleading for John Farnham to join the show? 
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I have a strong feeling that The Voice will flop on 7…
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Well, people were whingeing and moaning about Big Brother like that too but Seven made it work and people watched it.
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Everyone said the same about Australia’s Got Talent and Farmer Wants a Wife but they both worked in terms of ratings.
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That’s because those returned after years off air. The Voice has been on the air for almost a decade straight so I think the format dies.
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Time will tell if it will fail or not.
A bit of insight from George today…
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I would’ve pleaded for Marcia Hines to join the show! 
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and Kelly Rowland is also pregnant again now with a child.
So it was Destiny.
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I agree I think this is a better show for Marcia rather than Australian Idol.
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Destiny’s Child?
Guy Sebastian is special guest on Better Homes and Gardens next Friday. I wonder if there will be any news about him and The Voice?
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Delta was on Sunrise this week… Seven aren’t hiding anything on The Voice
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Guy Sebastian has told News Corp he would enter preliminary talks with Seven about staying as a judge on The Voice next year, but hoped the show would be drama-free and talent-focused.
“Similarly to X Factor, I didn’t love where (The Voice) ended. I didn’t. Chris (Sebastian) winning, that part, was obviously good. I didn’t want it to be awkward for him and I would have loved to have not been on the show that year.
“I feel like my presence tainted his win a bit because it creates controversy. But that’s not the issue for me.
“I genuinely just want to be involved in something that’s positive. I don’t want to bicker and I don’t want it to be about drama. I don’t think you can take that formula and just jam it up the arse of a show that it doesn’t belong in.”
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I think that’s what all of us are hoping for
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Yep. Back stories are fine, kept to a minimum, but keep the drama out of it.
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Yet it won’t rate without the drama.
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That’s a bit rich coming from the judge who ‘manufactured’/caused a lot of the drama this year…
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I was going to say the same thing.
Interesting comments from a paywall article however I can’t say it’s news to anyone. I have always held the impression that the judges never get to decide who they actually turn for.
Australian Idol winner Natalie Gauci has slammed her time on The Voice, claiming the program was more about TV than music.
Gauci, who was recruited by The Voice to compete on the show this year, also said the hit program needs to pay artists more.
“I think The Voice is on its last legs,” Gauci told News Corp.
“We’ve had so many of these types of shows. Australian Idol was so innocent, it was all about the music. Now it’s become so commercialised and it’s all about money. The Voice has lost its soul.”
Gauci said Channel 7, who have taken the show from Channel 9, need to make their 2021 version of The Voice more about the artists than the coaches or the backstories.
Producers had asked Gauci which team she’d like to be on – she picked Kelly Rowland or Boy George, but on TV wound up having to choose between Guy or Delta.
“I thought that was interesting, they knew what my choice would be. It was like a set-up. A lot of people on social media told me the same thing. I felt that too, like it was a set up, but there was nothing I could do about it.
“I feel like the coaches are not allowed to do exactly what they want to do, they’re being told by the producer and director what to say and do. There’s definitely the underlying feeling that’s the case because of the conversation I had with the producers about who I wanted to coach me.”
Gauci said Sebastian would only be present for the 45 minutes where coaching was being filmed.
There’s a vocal coach team who look after us, we only see Guy literally for 45 minutes, he’d come in after we’d done all the coaching with the vocal team and give us a few tips.”
Gauci highlighted a performance of Old Town Road where she was “ripped to shreds” by Kelly Rowland, however the show edited out what she said to defend herself.
“Kelly Rowland said I was like a cat screeching up the wall. I said I didn’t agree with what she said. They didn’t show any of that, just the part where Kelly said ‘I feel sorry for Natalie’. There was no opportunity for me to speak. Then they tell me they want to show the best of every artist they can, but really they want to showcase what is best for the show, not what is best for the artist.
When I came off stage I was furious. I asked Guy ‘Why did Kelly say those things?’ It was really hurtful. Guy said ‘Don’t worry about it, it’s just for TV’. That’s when it dawned on me, I just had to brush it off, it was all for TV.
“Being on Team Guy was short lived for me. It was nice to see him and speak to him at first, after things went the way they did after the battles I wasn’t really impressed by his commentary, even for other artists on the show. I felt he wasn’t being 100 per cent honest, I felt like what he was doing was for TV rather than nurturing the artist. I felt that was the same for me, I wasn’t 100-per-cent nurtured by him.
“I didn’t watch the show after I left.”
The program focused on Gauci’s dark times – losing her record deal after Idol, turning to drugs – to reintroduce her.
“It’s become more about the backstory than the songs,” Gauci said.
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