{"id":780510,"date":"2026-09-24T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780510\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:44:09","slug":"petition-for-sir-tom-jones-to-return-to-the-voice-backed-by-will-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780510\/","title":{"rendered":"Petition for Sir Tom Jones to return to The Voice backed by Will.i.am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for The Voice previously said: &#8220;We have loved working with Sir Tom Jones over the past nine years on The Voice UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While he will no longer be a full-time coach on series 15, we continue to talk to Sir Tom and his team about his involvement in the next series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a social media post published earlier this month, Sir Tom said: &#8220;They are offering a much-reduced role where I would make an appearance but without being actually involved from the start, and I&#8217;m not thrilled about that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So the only thing I know right now is that there&#8217;s never a good time to fire an 86-year-old who&#8217;s still pretty good at his job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The programme&#8217;s 2027 series was due to begin production soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the most recent series of The Voice UK, Sir Tom featured as a coach alongside McFly stars Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, Will.i.am and Destiny&#8217;s Child singer Kelly Rowland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also appeared alongside singers Jessie J, Olly Murs, Kylie Minogue and Rita Ora in previous series, and mentored three competitors on the programme who went on to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for The Voice previously said: &#8220;We have loved working with Sir Tom Jones over the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780510","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=780510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}