{"id":8536,"date":"2026-09-13T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/09\/13\/will-i-am-responds-with-tears-as-tom-jones-loses-the-voice-uk-job\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:11:33","slug":"will-i-am-responds-with-tears-as-tom-jones-loses-the-voice-uk-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2026\/09\/13\/will-i-am-responds-with-tears-as-tom-jones-loses-the-voice-uk-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Will.i.am Responds With Tears As Tom Jones Loses The Voice UK Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/will.i.am-and-tom-jones-1200x675.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Will.i.am\u2019s crying emojis tell the story as Tom Jones gets fired from \u201cThe Voice UK\u201d after nine years as a coach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/tag\/will-i-am\/\" title=\"\u200c\">Will.i.am<\/a> is the last original coach left on The Voice UK, and he\u2019s absolutely devastated to lose his partner in crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Tom Jones, the 86-year-old Welsh legend who\u2019s been judging alongside him since the show\u2019s inception, just got axed by ITV, and the Black Eyed Peas frontman responded to the news with nothing but crying emojis under Tom\u2019s Instagram announcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t just about losing a colleague. It\u2019s about watching an institution get dismantled for reasons that don\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ITV claims the decision came down to \u201cfinancial difficulty with insurance,\u201d but that explanation\u2019s been getting roasted across the industry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-white-color has-body-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-3 has-dark-background has-xxl-margin-top has-xxl-margin-bottom\" data-content-name=\"middle-content-engagement-single\" data-track-content=\"\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-black-background-color has-background has-dark-background has-sm-padding-top has-sm-padding-bottom has-sm-padding-left has-sm-padding-right has--lg-margin-top has--lg-margin-bottom\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-join-us\">Join Us <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-allhiphop-s-daily-news-service\">AllHipHop\u2019s Daily News Service<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-sm-max-width wp-block-paragraph\">Delivering news to inboxes since 1999. We break it. They take it. Get it first, straight from AllHipHop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom himself called out the contradiction, noting that producers are now saying they wanted to \u201crefresh\u201d the show with a new coaching lineup, which is corporate speak for \u201cwe\u2019re going younger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The network offered him a drastically reduced role where he\u2019d make occasional appearances without actually being involved from the start, and Tom made it clear he wasn\u2019t interested in that kind of setup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s never a good time to fire an 86-year-old who\u2019s still pretty good at his job,\u201d he posted, and the internet collectively agreed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Jones says firing from &amp;apos;The Voice UK&amp;apos; due to &amp;apos;financial difficulty&amp;apos;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jpn5uXoYXUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What makes this move particularly brutal is who Tom Jones actually is. This isn\u2019t some aging has-been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s a six-decade music legend with over 100 million records sold, a Grammy Award winner, and a man Queen Elizabeth II knighted in 2006 for his contributions to music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His catalog includes \u201cIt\u2019s Not Unusual,\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s New Pussycat?,\u201d \u201cDelilah,\u201d and \u201cGreen Green Grass of Home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s performed in Las Vegas consistently for decades and maintained a touring schedule that would exhaust people half his age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The backlash has been immediate and intense. British model and artist Jeny Howorth commented publicly, \u201cHow Bloody Dare They! I only watched because of you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Petitions have circulated demanding ITV reconsider. The message being sent is clear: experience and longevity matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ITV\u2019s statement tried to smooth things over by saying they \u201cloved working\u201d with Tom over nine years, but actions speak louder than corporate pleasantries.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allhiphop.com\/news\/will-i-am-responds-with-tears-as-tom-jones-loses-the-voice-uk-job\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will.i.am\u2019s crying emojis tell the story as Tom Jones gets fired from \u201cThe Voice UK\u201d after nine years as a coach. Will.i.am is the last original coach left on The Voice UK, and he\u2019s absolutely devastated to lose his partner in crime. Sir Tom Jones, the 86-year-old Welsh legend who\u2019s been judging alongside him since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}