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'The Voice' turns 10! Carson Daly shares his favorite moments from the hit show
While the four red coach chairs have featured a rotating cast of A-list talent, Shelton — like Carson — has been on “The Voice” since the beginning.
“He’s become one of the closest people in my life, to be honest with you,” Carson said. “We're very close, which is ironic because I — obviously, you know, I’m a producer on the show, I'm involved in recruiting coaches. I've talked some people into doing the show. And he was the person I knew the least. And so it's just ironic that 10 years later, he's the one that I'm definitely closest with. Our families vacation together at this point, and so I'm very grateful. Aside from what the show, from an employment standpoint, has done for me and my family, you know, my friendship with Blake is probably the next best thing I've yielded by being on the show.”
Carson said he was really proud of the “tenacity and passion” shown by the season 19 coaches — Shelton, Stefani, Clarkson and Legend — while filming the show amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“We've been shooting under very, very strict guidelines, obviously, for COVID,” he said. “We've been stripped away of an audience, we've been stripped away of a lot of bells and whistles and a lot of extras and we're really bare bones, and we're really seeing the character of this current cast of artists and it's really impressive to me how much they care about their artists on their teams and making them look good on television. Like, after 10 years, it would be easy, especially for Blake or somebody who's been on for a long time, to be very jaded and phoning it in, and they're not. They're really diligent and it's really impressive to me.”