{"id":764690,"date":"2026-09-09T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764690\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:58:09","slug":"the-voice-uks-tom-jones-says-he-fired-for-reason-of-financial-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764690\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice UK&#8217;s Tom Jones Says He Fired for Reason of Financial Difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Carson Daly Addresses His Future at The Voice After Keke Palmer Host Announcement<\/p>\n<p>Tom Jones is finding his exit from <a href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/the_voice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">The Voice UK<\/a> most unusual.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;It&#8217;s Not Unusual&#8221; singer didn&#8217;t mince words while addressing his departure from the singing competition, on which he served as coach for 13 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be clear, I did not want to leave The Voice as l love the show and really appreciate the audience. ITV made this decision\u2014obviously a while ago, and I was told just recently,&#8221; Jones wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdBiyszqURc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> Sept. 8. &#8220;The reason given is because of a financial difficulty with insurance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the Grammy winner took issue with how the network has said &#8220;in the press they wanted to \u2018refresh\u2019 the show, and with a new coaching line-up there wouldn\u2019t be a chair for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are offering a much-reduced role where I would make an appearance but without being actually involved from the start, and I\u2019m not thrilled about that,&#8221; Jones continued. &#8220;So the 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carson Daly Addresses His Future at The Voice After Keke Palmer Host Announcement Tom Jones is finding his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}