{"id":298778,"date":"2026-02-23T22:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T22:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:59:07","slug":"the-voice-adds-influencer-druski-as-commentator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298778\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Voice\u2019 Adds Influencer Druski\u00a0As Commentator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-voice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-voice\" data-tag=\"the-voice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Voice<\/a> is clearly going after a younger audience with its upcoming season after adding popular content creator <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/druski\/\" id=\"auto-tag_druski\" data-tag=\"druski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Druski<\/a>\u00a0to its books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nbc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nbc\" data-tag=\"nbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a> has set Druski\u00a0as a special commentator for Season 29, which is billed as The Voice: Battle of Champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDruski\u00a0broke out in 2021 when he launched Coulda Been Records, which became a way for musicians to appear on his Instagram Lives and for him to make fun of the likes of Drake, Kevin Hart, Timothee\u00a0Chalamet, Justin Bieber, J. Cole and Snoop Dogg. He has self-produced shows such as Could Been Love and Coulda\u202fBeen House as well as comedy and music festival Coulda\u202fFest. He courted controversy earlier this year at the NFL Honors when he mispronounced Jaxon Smith-Njigba\u2019s name after the Seattle Seahawks wide receiver won Offensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDruski\u00a0becomes the first ever commentator for the show and he will offer takes on the coaches\u2019 strategies, tracking the Triple Turn Competition and Super Steal. He is expected to be joined by a slew of NBA stars across the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis comes after The Voice was supersized by NBC with every episode having a two-hour episode after the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/the-voice-season-29-two-hours-brilliant-minds-pushed-1236709203\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pull drama Brilliant Minds from the schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe show, which premieres tonight, February 23, will reunite Kelly Clarkson, John Legend and Adam Levine as coaches, the first time they are back together since Season 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIt was shot at the same time as Season 28, which featured Michael Bubl\u00e9, Snoop Dogg, Niall Horan and Reba McEntire. Carson Daly hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe network has previously said that it will be \u201cinfused with fast-paced, competitive elements\u201d, \u00a0inspired by NBC Sports, which has aired Super Bowl LX, the Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games and the NBA All-Star Game in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Voice\u00a0is produced by MGM Television, Warner Bros Unscripted Television in association with Warner Horizon, and ITV Studios\u2019 The Voice USA, Inc. The series was created by John de Mol, who serves as an executive producer along with Mark Burnett, Audrey Morrissey, Amanda Zucker, Kyra Thompson, Adam H. Sher and Barry Poznick.\u202f\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Voice is clearly going after a younger audience with its upcoming season after adding popular content creator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[164373,156,1092,111,139,69,30596,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-298778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-druski","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-nbc","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-the-voice","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}