Blake Shelton Does Not Miss ‘The Voice’

Blake Shelton appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show today (11/17) and talked about a number of topics. Among them: the fact that he does not miss being on NBC's The Voice.

Blake told Jennifer when she asked about him missing the show, "Not yet. I did that for 23 seasons." Shelton went on to say that he wasn't even planning on "being there that long."

Shelton said, "I was planning on wrapping it up around 20 seasons or 21 seasons, and then COVID hit, and then I didn't want to walk out on the show in the middle of COVID, and them trying to scramble and figure out what to do. So I stayed." He joked that he "didn't have anything else to do" anyway, so he stayed longer than he planned.

Blake also said he got his red chair, noting, "It was the one thing I wanted besides a bunch of money." He said the chair resides in his and his wife Gwen Stefani's home in Oklahoma.

Hudson flashed some images of Stefani and her many fashion choices as a fashion icon and asked Blake jokingly if he helped her pick out her fashion. Shelton laughed and quipped, "What are you talking about? You know I don't help her. Of course not." He did say that he does help her with fashion when she comes to Oklahoma and helps her be prepared for what to wear in his home state.

Jennifer showed a photo of the couple dressing in camo, and said, "Did you help her with this look?" Blake says, "See, she probably wasn't prepared, and she had to put on a bunch of my crap."

Talking about holiday traditions, Shelton said that Gwen and her boys really "get into the holidays." He said one tradition they have is making "these weird turkeys" like a "Flaming Hot Cheetos turkey," where they grind up Cheetos, put it on the turkey, and then bake it.

When asked if he could cook, Blake said he was "limited," but he is a good frier, saying, "I fry stuff." He then looked off-stage and gestured to the show's producers off-camera. He joked, "I'm telling your producers right now, they are laughing, I'm a damn good frier, you can kiss my a--."

Lainey Wilson posted a clip of her new commercial for Wrangler now long ago. It features the country star in her Wranglers surrounded by wild horses. Of course, she's wearing her many Wrangler bell-bottom styles. At the end of the commercial clip, Lainey says, "Wrangler, long live cowgirls."

Wilson captioned the video clip on Instagram, "Turn heads and capture hearts (smiling emoji with cowboy hat). I partnered with @wrangler to show y'all some of their new Fall styles."

Many of her die-hard fans reacted to her post, including one who wrote, "Lainey Wilson do a Flicka remake." Another fan commented, "My favorite new ad or commercial! I'm loving it. Way to go, Lainey." One more fan gushed, "I absolutely LOVE the trail you are blazing for women in country music."

See that post here.

Over the decades, country stars have lent their talent to promote many items through print, TV, and radio commercials, from the 1970s, when Loretta Lynn was talking about Crisco Oil to Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson doing Taco Bell spots. It was actually Toby Keith's Ford commercial that started to get him more noticed by a wider audience. Some credit that commercial with cementing his superstar status.

Even country icon Dolly Parton teamed with her goddaughter Miley Cyrus for a 2022 Superbowl commercial for T-Mobile. Kelsea Ballerini also became a commercial girl when she announced in 2022 that she was an official "Cover Girl" for the makeup brand. Faith Hill has been in Pepsi commercials, Shania Twain has done Revlon commercials and Garth Brooks has done Dr. Pepper commercials.

The news of Wilson's commercial got us thinking: what other country stars have teamed with companies and made commercials? So we dove in and found seven commercials that some of you may recall through the years as companies turned to country music royalty to promote their brands.

The new Wrangler ad is not Lainey Wilson's first commercial for TV. She starred in a commercial earlier this year for Tractor Supply. The ad features her driving a four-wheeler, performing on stage, and sitting in her truck with her momma. She also rides a horse in the spot and even drives a tractor. In the ad, she sings the song "For Life Out Here."

About a year ago, Thomas Rhett teamed up with Fritos and did a commercial touting the famous chip brand. The company revealed that Thomas's commercial was the first new Fritos television commercial in 20 years. Rhett joined the iconic corn chip brand for its "Down For Everything" campaign. In the fun commercial, he asks a friend what his fave is like, "camper or tent" or "lab or poodle." Rhett is not the first country star to do ads for Fritos; Reba did so in the late 1990s.

Reba was one of the many actors who portrayed Colonel Sanders in fun KFC ads and commercials a few years back. In the ad, you can hear Reba's voice singing in a bar, then turning around and singing, "I'm Colonel Sanders," dressed as the chicken icon, and then throwing a hat to herself, looking like the Reba we all know in the audience. The hilarious video also features actor Don Swayze playing guitar behind her. One of the best lines in the song is, "I'm definitely not a woman." Other actors playing the Colonel in ads included Rob Lowe and comedian Jim Gaffigan.

In 2015, Miranda Lambert did a commercial for Ram Trucks. The minute-long ad features Lambert singing her hit "I Got Wings" in front of images of farm life and photo frames of herself throughout her hair. She also drives her Ram truck through a farm and plays guitar on the porch of an old farmhouse.

It's hard to find anything of Garth Brooks on YouTube because the superstar actually employs people to take down his stuff daily. However, you can see a commercial he did in the fall of 1994 for McDonald's when he teamed with the burger giant to offer CDs and cassettes of his music for fans who buy a value meal at McDonald's. In promoting the new partnership, I interviewed Garth with some fellow media outlets one afternoon, and he conveniently brought in a sack of McDonald's lunch to munch on while we talked.

And who can forget the 2021 Superbowl commercial featuring Blake Shelton, his then girlfriend Gwen Stefani, and their buddy Adam Levine? The funny ad shows Adam setting Blake and Gwen up with one another after Stefani tells him, "I'm ready to start dating again." After she describes what she wants, Adam, through a "spotty" phone service, hears it all wrong and thinks Blake fits the bill perfectly of an "uncultured country guy."