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Kelly Clarkson returning to The Voice for season 30 after talk show ends

Tell a friend to tell a friend... she's baaaack!

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May 7, 2026 3:17 p.m. ET

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- Kelly Clarkson will return as a coach on *The Voice *season 30, this fall.

- The announcement of Clarkson's next move comes three months after the *American Idol* winner revealed that she is ending her eponymous talk show, *The Kelly Clarkson Show*, after seven seasons.

- "It wasn't the show wasn't doing [well], that's what kind of sucked," Clarkson previously said of her decision to end the show. "It was like, everything was going well, that's what was really hard."

Kelly Clarkson is diving back into the competition after announcing her decision to end her Daytime Emmy-winning talk show later this year.

On Thursday, NBC announced that the singer is returning as a coach for *The Voice *season 30 with a montage of her greatest moments on the competition reality series posted to Instagram. Clarkson was a coach on the series for a total of 10 seasons, after first joining in 2014.

"Team Kelly has RE-entered the chat," the caption of the post reads. "Kelly Clarkson returns as a Coach this fall on The Voice! on NBC and streaming on Peacock"

Clarkson will be rejoining fellow coach Adam Levine, who as previously announced, will also be returning for season 30. The two are the only coaches confirmed for season 30, so far.

Of course, Clarkson just served as a coach for the show's latest competition — officially titled *The Voice: Battle of Champions* — alongside her fellow alumni Levine and John Legend. The appearances by *Voice* alumni were a new segment of the competition, in which contestants returned to once again compete on behalf of their former coaches.

Kelly Clarkson and John Legend on 'The Voice'.

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The competition revealed its winner to be Alexia Jayy last month, who was voted on by an audience of superfans and past show winners and alums. Jayy continuously wowed the crowd and judges of season 29 with her soulful performances, but she had to keep her victory a secret for months because the latest season was recorded last summer.

She officially secured her crown with stirring renditions of LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" and Adele's "One and Only," the latter of which moved Clarkson to tears.

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The announcement of Clarkson's next move comes three months after the *American Idol* winner revealed that she is ending her eponymous talk show, *The Kelly Clarkson Show*, after seven seasons.

The star announced the news in a statement jointly shared to her Instagram and the show's account in February, in which she revealed the decision to end the popular show was hers. "This isn't goodbye," Clarkson wrote in her post, in part. "I’ll still be making music, playing shows here and there and you may catch me on *The Voice* from time to time … you never know where I might show up next. But for now, I want to thank y’all so much for allowing our show to be a part of your lives, and for believing in us and hanging with us for seven incredible years.”

Production on season 7 will continue as planned with Clarkson hosting and episodes continuing to air through the fall, reps for the show confirmed. In addition, a few special guest hosts will be announced.

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A few weeks later, Clarkson opened up about the decision during an appearance on the *Today* show, explaining that it ultimately came down to wanting to spend more time with her children, River Rose and Remy.

"Well, I think everybody probably gets the timing, but... yeah, our family life, the dynamic changed a bit and it has changed for a minute now," Clarkson said. "I think it's just — you've got kids, we've all got kids, right? — it's one of those things when you kinda start seeing life as how precious it is, too."

Clarkson's ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock — with whom she shares her kids — died following a battle with skin cancer last August. His death led Clarkson to postpone several of her Las Vegas residency dates at the time in order to “be fully present” for their children.

While Clarkson isn't stepping away from the spotlight anytime soon, she admitted that it was "really hard" to say goodbye to *The Kelly Clarkson Show* because it'd had been such a good run.

Kelly Clarkson on 'The Kelly Clarkson Show'.

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"And, honestly, you know -- I work with a lot of people here, too — the crew's been incredible," Clarkson added. "It wasn't the show wasn't doing [well], that's what kind of sucked. It was like, everything was going well, that's what was really hard."

She added, "And it's like people's jobs. We are a family there as well, so that was a really hard thing for me, but an easy decision as a momma. But it's a big deal for our team."

*The Voice* season 30 is slated to premiere this fall.

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