{"id":618389,"date":"2026-09-08T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618389\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:58:10","slug":"tom-jones-says-itv-fired-an-86-year-old-as-hes-axed-from-the-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618389\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Jones says ITV &#8216;fired an 86-year-old&#8217; as he&#8217;s axed from The Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOM JONES HAS hit out at ITV for \u2018firing\u2019 him from his judging role on The Voice UK, claiming he was told the cost of insurance was too high.<\/p>\n<p>The 86-year-old said he didn\u2019t want to leave after appearing on nine consecutive series of the show, as well as a number of earlier series.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was most recently a judge\/coach alongside Destiny\u2019s Child singer Kelly Rowland, McFly stars Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, and rapper Will.i.am.<\/p>\n<p>The show airs on Virgin Media in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on his social media today, the Welsh singer said: \u201cThe only thing I know right now is that there\u2019s never a good time to fire an 86-year-old who\u2019s still pretty good at his job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FQrmL2YK3A\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FQrmL2YK3A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Jones (@RealSirTomJones) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealSirTomJones\/status\/2097281346875851191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 8, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jones began his career as a hitmaker in the 60s, with song such as Whats\u2019 New Pussycat? and Delilah.\u00a0He has won a Grammy, a Golden Globe, and an Ivor Novello award, and has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>In August of this year, Jones played a show at Palmerston House in Co Kildare. He is gearing up for the North American leg of his tour this Autumn.<\/p>\n<p>He said in today\u2019s statement that he loves The Voice and its audience.<\/p>\n<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TomJones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tom Jones<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>He claimed ITV offered to have him back for the next series, but in a \u201cmuch-reduced role\u201d with little involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not thrilled about that,\u201d he said. It\u2019s unclear whether he\u2019ll take up the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was also a coach on the first four series, winning the first in 2012 with his act Leanne Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>He had taken issue with not being chosen as a coach for the fifth series. He returned to the show in the series after.<\/p>\n<p>ITV has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOM JONES HAS hit out at ITV for \u2018firing\u2019 him from his judging role on The Voice UK,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,8642,278,904,23658,262458,101107,4535],"class_list":["post-618389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-itv","tag-music","tag-television","tag-the-voice","tag-the-voice-uk","tag-tom-jones","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}