While congenial ribbing between coaches is part of the show’s DNA, it was unclear at times over the course of the 16 seasons they were on The Voice together if Blake and Adam Levine were as exasperated with each other as they seemed.
“We are constantly at each other’s throats, and sometimes we really do get mad at each other,” Blake told The Tennessean in 2017. “We’re those two guys you knew in high school where we have this bond that is unexplainable. It brings out the best and worst in both of us. It truly is an explosive relationship. And I know every trick to get under his skin.”
Translation: “He’s one of the best friends that I have, but I still want to kill him sometimes.”
And even though they haven’t competed against each other since 2019, Adam knows what the fans want.
“The Voice season 1 after party, at my house with dips–t @blakeshelton,” the O.G. coach captioned a throwback pic ahead of his return to the show in February 2025 for season 27.
Meanwhile, the latest crop of coaches are far less likely to tweet out each other’s private phone numbers.
“You spend so much time together,” Niall said during an NBC sit-down, “and I was hoping it wasn’t going to be like this TV relationship where the cameras go around and we’re like [feigning enthusiasm], ‘Hey, Snoop Dogg!’ I was always nervous about that, doing the show in the first place. I just didn’t want it to be like a forced relationship, and it hasn’t been that at all.”