Blake Shelton announced this week that he’s leaving The Voice after its 23rd play successful 2023, and a idiosyncratic adjacent to his wife, Gwen Stefani, told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that she is afloat supportive of the vocation move. “Gwen couldn’t beryllium prouder of Blake close now. She knows it’s a immense determination and 1 that helium hasn’t taken lightly,” the root revealed. “He has discussed leaving the amusement galore times implicit the years with Gwen but feels similar present is the close clip to bash it.”
“Gwen wholly supports him and she’s looking guardant to spending much clip astatine their location successful Oklahoma unneurotic now,” they continued. “Gwen knows that Blake is inactive going to absorption connected his music, which is his passion. But it volition beryllium bully having him astir much often. The boys besides adore Blake and they’re looking guardant to spending much clip unneurotic connected the ranch with him. It’s going to beryllium a large alteration but it’s besides going to beryllium a invited one.”
Gwen, 53, shares three boys with her ex-husband Gavin Rossdale, 56: Kingston, 16, Zuma, 14, and Apollo, 8. Blake, 45, became their stepdad successful July 2021 aft he walked down the aisle with Gwen. While helium ne'er had kids of his own, helium antecedently admitted to simply falling successful emotion with Gwen’s kids. “I didn’t cognize what I was signing up for, but I was each astir signing up for it. And each time I’ve fallen successful emotion with the boys arsenic overmuch arsenic I bash with Gwen,” helium told PEOPLE successful March.
As fans know, the state crooner and popular vocalist met portion judges on The Voice. They were some joined astatine first, but some yet went done divorces. Gwen and Gavin separated successful 2015, and Blake and his state vocalist ex-wife, Miranda Lambert, 38, broke up the aforesaid twelvemonth aft 4 years of marriage. Blake and Gwen went nationalist with their romance successful the autumn of 2015. The “God’s Country” hitmaker popped the question to the “Rich Girl” vocalist successful Oct. 2020.
Blake addressed Gwen during his status announcement for The Voice. He besides gushed astir the amusement changing his beingness successful the champion mode during its 10th-anniversary occurrence successful 2021. “People inquire maine each the time, ‘What’s the top happening that’s happened to you since you’ve been connected The Voice?’” Blake recalled. “That’s a nary brainer, right? I met my fiancée here!”
HollywoodLife‘s root noted that Blake decided to permission The Voice, connected which helium is the lone archetypal justice remaining, due to the fact that helium “felt similar his tally had travel to an end.” However, a 2nd EXCLUSIVE root told HL different determining origin was his tendency for immoderate much household clip with Gwen and her boys. “They some consciousness that they person reached the pinnacles of their vocation and Blake is truly looking guardant to conscionable being astatine location with Gwen and experiencing beingness with her astatine their peaceful location successful Oklahoma,” they explained. “Being capable to person her connected with him this 1 past play close present has been phenomenal, but they some cognize that it indispensable travel to an end. Blake is truthful arrogant of the amusement and honored to beryllium a portion of its success. The 2 of them volition decidedly beryllium watching from home.”
Gwen won’t beryllium judging alongside her hubby during his past play contempt being a justice connected Season 22. Instead, Blake volition accidental his farewell with Chance the Rapper, Niall Horan, and returning coach Kelly Clarkson.