Keke Palmer is following in Carson Daly‘s footsteps for a new edition of The Voice.
NBC officially announced The Voice: Celebrity on Tuesday, August 4, with Palmer, 32, hosting the latest addition to the fan-favorite franchise. Daly, 53, will serve as a producer.
Joe Jonas will make his debut as a coach on the singing competition alongside Queen Latifah and Riley Green, who will also appear on season 30 of The Voice this fall.
Like the original series fans have come to know and love, The Voice: Celebrity will search for undiscovered talent — this time from actors, musicians, influencers, athletes, comedians and reality stars — to crown one champion at the end of the competition.
The new series marks an unprecedented first as Daly has hosted The Voice for all 30 seasons over the last 15 years. The NBC hit kicks off its milestone 30th season on Monday, September 30, where Daly will emcee alongside returning coaches Adam Levine and Kelly Clarkson, as well as newcomers Latifah andGreen.
After 28 seasons as host, Daly was given a special “Carson Callback Card” to give one artist who didn’t receive any chair turns in the Blind Auctions a redo. He bestowed the honor on rocker Ryan Mitchell, who ultimately made it on Team Reba McEntire. (Aiden Ross from Niall Horan’s team, however, won the trophy.)
“We started a new twist,” the former TRL personality said on the Today show in September 2025. “I had the ability to give one of our artists a second chance. This season … there was a young man who caught my eye when he went out there. [He] was so close to getting a chair turn, [but] nothing happened; he didn’t make it. I still knew Ryan Mitchell deserved the first-ever ‘Carson Callback Card.’”
In addition to The Voice, Daly also coanchors Today and hosts his own radio show.
“The Voice is an anomaly. I mean, that’s great, but you can’t live your life in this business buying into that,” he told Vulture in 2012 of staying busy amid the singing show’s success. “I hope The Voice has a fifteen-year run, don’t get me wrong, but I come from nothing, and maybe it’s the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, ‘They’ll figure me out soon. Always assume the worst, and hope for the best.’ That’s like my living motto.”
Daly noted at the time that he had pitched NBC “a bunch” of other gig ideas amid popularity of his late-night show, Last Call With Carson Daly, which was eventually canceled in 2019 after 17 seasons.
“It’s really great because it feels like I get to yin and yang it. Selfishly, it’s job security,” he quipped to the outlet of working on both programs. “Getting back to that, I keep it simple: I don’t drink the Kool-aid, and I’m going to stay working. It’s the best of both worlds because I think when The Voice took off, a lot of the people on my late-night show thought, ‘Oh, boy. There goes Carson.’ One of the things I was quick to reassure everyone in late-night was to remind them of my loyalty.”
He continued at the time, “[The Voice has] enabled me to breathe life back into the late-night show, and in return, they asked me to do the Golden Globes preshow, which is another show I probably wouldn’t normally do. I mean, I’m not a big fan of the red carpet.”
Palmer, meanwhile, has plenty of hosting experience herself, having joined the NBC reboot of Password in 2022. She won the 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Host for a Game Show, becoming the first Black woman — and the first woman in 15 years — to take home the honor. Palmer also hosts her own podcast, “Baby, This is Keke Palmer.”
