“The Voice” coach Reba McEntire almost lost before the finale

“The Voice” coach Reba McEntire almost lost before the finale

Now it’s really everyone’s business The voice.

Coaches Michael Bublé, Reba McEntire, Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani are all contenders for next week’s grand finale. But it almost didn’t happen.

The coaches for Season 26 of “The Voice” are Snoop Dogg, Reba McEntire, Gwen Stefani and Michael Bublé.

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At Tuesday’s show, the show’s top eight contestants – two members from each team – were split in half. Team Gwen’s Sydney Sterlace, Team Snoop’s Jeremy Beloate and Team Bublé’s two members, Sofronio Vasquez and Shye, were the top four vote-getters following Monday’s episode. Things weren’t looking good for Team Reba.

After these results were announced, the remaining four singers took the stage individually to perform songs they had selected. They competed for the audience’s vote in the Instant Save, which viewers could use for about five minutes. The other survivor: Danny Joseph of Team Reba, who released a soulful indie-rock version of The Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun.”

Joseph won against Team Reba’s Adam Bohanan, who sang Maxwell’s “Pretty Wings”; Christina Eagle of Team Snoop, who performed the twangy “Heart Like a Truck” by Lainey Wilson; and Jan Dan’s soulful cover of John Mayer’s “Gravity.” Stefani idolized him all season and after his last song up there she said, “America, what do we do?”

Before Joseph was named the saved candidate, he and McEntire said their goodbyes.

He thanked her for giving him confidence again after major surgery earlier this year.

“You know what?” McEntire replied. “God has put you in a position to do this for us because the world would have been so disadvantaged if you hadn’t stood on that stage so we could all listen to you sing and watch you perform, because you are completely different to everyone else” in this competition this season. And I’m very proud that you were on my team.

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While McEntire was almost left without a contestant in the finale this season, she was the winner of season 25. Her contestant Asher HaVon, the show’s first openly LGBTQ contestant, was her first winner.

On Monday, the “Fancy” singer and her co-stars will watch as the five finalists sing another tune that America will then vote on. The overall season winner — and a record deal — will be announced in the finale, airing Tuesday, Dec. 10 on NBC.

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