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<\/p>\nSir Tom Jones seems to have given his stamp of approval over his new The Voice co-star, who was confirmed on Tuesday as LeAnn Rimes’ replacement.<\/p>\n
The singer, 84, has been a coach on the ITV talent show since its launch in 2012, and has sat alongside a few different faces on the coaching team over the years.<\/p>\n
Last year, the panel consisted of Jones, McFly stars Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, will.i.am and country singer LeAnn Rimes.<\/p>\n
Rimes won’t be returning for this year’s series, and instead former Destiny’s Child star Kelly Rowland will be in the all-important judging seat, responsible for selecting which singers make it through to the next round and eventually coaching her own team of hopefuls.<\/p>\n
She’s A Lady hitmaker Jones seems to have thrown his support behind the replacement on Tuesday after the official Instagram account for The Voice shared the update.<\/p>\n
Jones, along with co-star Danny Jones, gave the post a like and the singer also re-shared it to his own page.<\/p>\n
The post showed each coach and was captioned: “Kelly\u2026 can you handle this? Meet the Coaches newest recruit when The Voice UK returns.”<\/p>\n
Rowland isn’t a stranger to the series, having been the judge on the Australian version of the show from 2017 to 2020.<\/p>\n
Tom Jones has thrown his support behind Kelly Rowland’s casting on The Voice <\/p>\n
ITV <\/p>\n
Emma Willis, along with the coaches, will be returning to front the series as presenter once again.<\/p>\n
Also reacting to the post, several fans expressed their delight at Rowland joining the panel, and many others gushed over Jones’ continuing commitment to the show.<\/p>\n
“What a good choice! Kelly Rowland had formed Little Mix, so hopefully she can form another girl group,” one shared.<\/p>\n
“Kelly was a fantastic coach on the voice Australia. She would really do incredibly well as a coach in the voice UK. Kindly bring back the battles and knockouts too,” a second echoed.<\/p>\n
“Kelly was [really] good in Australia, have high hopes for this years series!” someone else enthused, with another adding: “Yeees Kelly Rowland. One of my fav [coaches] on The Voice.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a Jones fan commented: “I am so HAPPY that Sir #tomjones is back. I was scared when there was some gossip last year that they wanted him gone. Ladies and Gentlemen TOM JONES is the original LEGEND!<\/p>\n
“And I mean L-E-G-E-N-D…#thevoiceuk. He is still the one that the younger ones want him as a coach. IMHO. #delilah.”<\/p>\n
“I will be rooting for you, Sir Tom. I love seeing you on this. Can’t wait. Come on Team Tom! X,” someone else enthused.<\/p>\n
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Kelly Rowland is replacing LeAnn Rimes on The Voice coaching panel<\/p>\n
Getty <\/p>\n
Quite a few fans also demanded for a change to last year’s series to be reversed. In the 2024 series, it was confirmed the famous “battles” had been removed.<\/p>\n
The battles used to see each coach pitting their singers against each other with a song and choosing the strongest of them, but this element of the show was removed last year, sparking disgruntled viewers to complain online.<\/p>\n
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n LeAnn Rimes was a coach on last year’s series of The Voice<\/p>\n ITV <\/p>\n It seems they still aren’t pleased, with some going as far as to say they won’t be watching unless they bring back the competitive and brutal feature.<\/p>\n On her sign up to the show, Rowland stated: “I am excited to join The Voice UK as a coach, and am looking forward to working with the excellent and passionate coaches the show is known for. I can\u2019t wait to hear all the new talent and to go to battle for my team. Let’s go!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Tom Jones seems to have given his stamp of approval over his new The Voice co-star, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[4781,77,208,38130,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-celebrity","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-itv","11":"tag-tom-jones","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114619711959088880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"LeAnn](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/leann-rimes.png\")