When Adam Levine announced in 2019 that he was exiting "The Voice," it wasn't just fans of the show who were shook. Count Blake Shelton among them, given that a big part of the shtick he'd created on the show involved his bromance and rivalry with the Maroon 5 frontman.
"Look, it sucks not having Adam on the show," Shelton confessed in a sit-down with "Access" later that year, sharing his feelings on the departure of his costar-slash-comic foil. "He's been there since the beginning, you know," Shelton jokingly added, "and it's hard not to have someone that stupid to make fun of."
While viewers of "The Voice" were no longer treated to the duo's witty repartee on a weekly basis, that didn't mean it wasn't taking place off camera. As Shelton revealed, he and Levine had remained close. In fact, he recounted, they'd recently spent 45 minutes together via FaceTime, engaging in "just nonsense talk, you know, stuff that you could never say on TV ... it was just a typical conversation. We stay in touch. I mean, we'll be friends from now on, you know."
