Blake Shelton and wife Gwen Stefani have The Voice to thank for their happy relationship — but not all of their coworkers were convinced it would work at first.
“There were rumors that you two were getting together,” host Carson Daly recalled during The Voice: 30th Season Celebration on Thursday, September 17, while sitting down with OG coaches Shelton, 50, Adam Levine and CeeLo Green, as well as Stefani, 56, who joined the show during season 7.
Daly, 53, remembered “coming out of Adam’s dressing room” and thinking “there’s something happening with Blake and Gwen” — but he wasn’t convinced it was real.
“We were both like, ‘There’s no way. There’s no way this is possible,’” the Today cohost admitted.
Levine, however, remembered the start of Shelton and Stefani’s love story a little differently.
“I was so pumped on it. I was like, ‘This is going down, dude. This is going down,’” he said with a smile.
Daly confessed, “I tried everything in my power to not let this thing happen,” but Levine, 47, was all in from the jump.
“I was like, ‘I know what’s going on,’” Levine remembered, which took Stefani by surprise.
“You knew?” she asked. The Maroon 5 frontman simply replied, “Of course I did.”
Shelton, for his part, backed Daly’s recollection from when the romance started, confirming that his longtime friend “did try to get us to pump the brakes.”
“You both went through a crazy divorce publicly. Then we went to Gwen’s house once,” Daly explained of his reservations. (Shelton was married to Miranda Lambert from 2011 to 2015. Stefani also filed for divorce from Gavin Rossdale in 2015 after 14 years of marriage. Shelton and Stefani started dating three months after her split.)
Daly turned to Shelton and added, “I’ve known you for a long time and I love you. I was like, ‘You guys gotta stop this. This will never work.’ Then cut to years later, you called me in New York and said, ‘Would you marry me?’”
Nearly five years after Us confirmed their relationship, Stefani and Shelton announced their engagement in October 2020. The musicians got married in July 2021 with Daly serving as the officiant.
The wedding was Shelton’s third. He was first married to Kaynette Williams from 2003 to 2006 before moving on with Lambert, 42.
Stefani, for her part, had the support of her three sons — Kingston, 20, Zuma, 18, and Apollo, 12, whom she shares with ex-husband Rossdale, 60 — when she said “I do” to Shelton.
One year after getting hitched, Stefani returned to The Voice as a coach alongside her husband, who was the longest-running coach in the show’s history. Stefani most recently served as a coach during season 26 in 2024.
Shelton, meanwhile, exited the series ahead of season 24 having been a coach from 2011 to 2023. He made an appearance during the season 25 finale in 2024 and again during the season 27 finale last year.
The Voice: 30th Season Celebration is now streaming on Peacock.
