“I saw the Holland version of the show. They sent it to me, and I said, ‘I can’t see me doing that.’ Because, you know, I’m a gypsy at heart.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She didn’t want to be tied down to one project, in one place, for a long time.<\/p>\n
Reba did appear on the show, she served as a mentor to Team Blake in 2011, and again in 2015.<\/p>\n
And now that he’s gone, would she take Blake’s place if it was offered to her? Not a chance.<\/p>\n
“Who could fill Blake’s shoes? To fill Blake’s chair? Wow. That’s gonna be tough. He did a great job and kudos to him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know Reba McEntire turned down “The Voice” 12 years ago?","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[361,507,786],"class_list":["post-23144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-reba","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-the-voice"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:39:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/reba-mcentire-turned-down-the-voice-12-years-ago-and-would-again\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}