Kelly Clarkson, Adam Levine & John Legend to Return to ‘The Voice’ As Part of Major Show Revamp

The Voice is getting the band back together, with former coaches Kelly Clarkson, Adam Levine and John Legend set to return to their spinning chairs for season 29 as part of a major revamp for the NBC singing competition series.

As announced Tuesday (July 22), the three Voice veterans are coming back to the judge’s panel for a special cycle of the show dubbed “Battle of Champions,” which will find the trio competing against each other with a few notable changes to the long-running competition format. For starters, the show’s famous blind auditions will have the added component of coaches competing against each other for the most triple turns in season 29, with the winner securing a “Super Steal” that blocks any other coach’s attempt to swipe a singer from another team in the battle round.

More familiar faces will rejoin the show during knockouts, which will find Clarkson, Levine and Legend each bringing back two members of their past teams from previous seasons for an “In-Season All-Star Competition.” The returning competitors will face off in vocal battles judged by fellow O.G. Voice coach, CeeLo Green.

The final change announced by NBC for the 29th season will be implemented during the show’s semi-finals and finale. For the first time ever, past Voice contestants and superfans of the series will make up a new voting block that influences the competition’s outcome in real time.

Season 29 is set to air in 2026, but production will take place at the same time as filming for season 28, which airs this fall with coaches Michael Bublé, Snoop Dogg, Niall Horan and Reba McEntire. Clarkson will balance her commitment to the show with her hosting duties on the seventh season The Kelly Clarkson Show.

She and her season 29 cohorts make up some of the most beloved Voice coaches in show history, with Levine and CeeLo helping to originate the very first coaching panel during the competition’s debut season in 2011. The Maroon 5 frontman has a total of 17 seasons under his belt.

Clarkson wouldn’t join The Voice until season 14, after which she’d serve on and off as a coach for 12 seasons so far. Legend’s first cycle with the show was season 16 in 2019; he too has since been a crucial part of the panel for many nonconsecutive seasons.

All three of the season 29 all-stars previously worked alongside each other on the season 16 panel. They’ve also all won The Voice at different points as coaches, making the upcoming installment the first to feature a panel entirely made up of winners.