On 29 October 2022, Anthonia Edwards was announced as the winner of the season, marking Tom Jones' third win as a coach and the second coach in any variation of the British version of The Voice to win more than two seasons, after Pixie Lott on the Kids' version. For the first time, the first artist to perform in the Blind Auditions went on to win the entire season which, including the final, was pre-recorded.
In October 2021, it was confirmed that will.i.am, Anne-Marie, Sir Tom Jones and Olly Murs would return for their eleventh, second, tenth and fifth series as coaches, respectively, whilst it was announced that Emma Willis would return for her ninth series as presenter and that AJ Odudu would not return to present the show on the ITV Hub.[2]
Production
Auditions for the eleventh series opened in March 2021 and closed in July 2021.[3] The series aired in the autumn for the first time in the show's history due to the cancellation of The X Factor in July 2021. It was also announced that the battle rounds had been axed and would be replaced by the "Callbacks" which aired on 15 October 2022 and the final will air on 29 October 2022.[4][2]
The series began filming at Dock10 at MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester in October 2021.[5] Also, the entire series was pre-recorded, including the grand final.[6] The first trailer for the series premiered on 18 August 2022.[7]
For this season of the Voice, the show replaced the usual 'Battles' round with 'The Callbacks', which is a twist to the show first adopted by the tenth season of The Voice Australia. The Callbacks aired on 15 October. In this round, each coach brought in a mentor for their team. David Guetta, MNEK, Tom Grennan, and James Arthur were invited by will.i.am, Anne-Marie, Tom Jones, and Olly Murs, respectively.
In the Callbacks, the coaches divided their 10 contestants selected in the Blind Auditions into three groups where they were given the same song to sing in their own styles. After all three or four artists of the same group finished their performances, the coaches will have to choose one to advance to the semi-final. A total of three artists were taken through to the semi-final per coach.
The Semi-final aired on 22 October 2022. The 12 contestants that had advanced from the Callbacks competed for their spots in the Finale of this season. Each coach will have to choose one artist out of three to take through to the Final. This episode was pre-recorded.
The Final aired on 29 October 2022. Same as all the other episodes this season, the Final is also pre-recorded, with the audience and a virtual audience via Zoom voting for the final two and the winner.
The coaches kicked off the Final with the performance of "Shine" by Emeli Sandé. The show also invited Craig Eddie, the winner of last season whose coach was Anne-Marie, as Musical Guest. He performed his single "The Outside".
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