'The Voice' Season 9 Premiere Stars Newly Single Blake & Gwen, Chuck Woolery

Thankfully, the coaches’ personal lives didn’t totally upstage the actual contestants’ auditions. And Gwen and Blake seemed in good spirits. But interestingly, when the coaches sang each other’s
songs during the premiere’s opening number, Blake did croon the Gwen-penned No Doubt breakup ballad “Don’t Speak,” which surely must’ve had some personal meaning for him, given his current situation. I gotta wonder what his ex Miranda Lambert thought of that. (And I have to wonder what Gavin Rossdale thought when Blake later likened Gwen’s fight over a teen contestant to a “custody battle” – maybe not the best choice of words, considering that Gwen is about to divorce the father of her three young children.)

Personally, I don’t believe there is a love connection, other than a platonic one, between Gwen and Blake. But speaking of Love Connection… Chuck Woolery’s son, Michael Woolery, auditioned this Monday! That’s not as much of a stretch as you might think. Music is in the Woolery blood: Back in the ‘60s, Chuck was actually part of a psychdelic pop duo called the Avant-Garde, who scored a top 40 one-hit wonder with a song called “Naturally Stoned.”yahoonews,youtube