Very soon, viewers will have an appointment with the new and eleventh season of The Voice. A good part of the emblematic program of TF1 has even already been recorded, namely the blind auditions and the battles. If the concept obviously remains the same, with an unchanged quartet of coaches made up of Amel Bent, Vianney, Marc Lavoine and Florent Pagny, the production has brought some new things. Starting with the arrival of Nolwenn Leroy. The singer was chosen to become the “surprise coach” of the show.
Nolwenn Leroy will have great power at the start of the program: that of draft Talents that have not been selected during blind auditions, as we learn during the press conference on January 20, 2022. Nolwenn Leroy will thus be able to build up a small four-person team. For this, she watched with great care the sequences of unsuccessful candidates to make her choice. The four Talents selected were not informed of their second chance until ten days after the shooting. We can imagine their surprise!
Nolwenn Leroy will then participate in the battles, where she will finally find the other coaches. The two Talents that she will have decided to save at that time will then be submitted to the appreciation of Amel Bent, Marc Lavoine, Vianney and Florent Pagny. The latter will then be able to buzzer to recover them in their team. The role of Nolwenn Leroy will stop there but it promises to be enough to upset the competition. “She did a great job, she was a passionate and invested coach“, confided Pascal Guix, the artistic producer of The Voice.
“The idea started from a frustration of Florent Pagny“, said Rémi Faure, program director of TF1. The singer has indeed several times hinted that it was difficult for him not to turn around for everyone.