Jennifer Hudson RETURNS to The Voice! STING Joins as MEGA Mentor! Season 26 Knockouts Details!

Jennifer Hudson Returns to 'The Voice': Celebrity Mega Mentor with Sting in Season 26!

Big news, "Voice" fans! Jennifer Hudson is back, but not as a coach this time. She's leveling up to "Mega Mentor" for Season 26, joining newcomer Sting! It's a "Voice" first – two Mega Mentors in one season. JHud will be teaming up with coaches Michael Bublé and Reba McEntire, while Sting lends his rockstar wisdom to Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani's teams. Get ready for some serious musical fireworks. While original coverage of this team up by Entertainment Weekly originally focused on her then now even more interesting additions emerged - both artists also had latest album drop News! Sting launched a new LP on Oct 27 titled "My Songs Volume Two: The Best Of The Next Ten Years" which further fueled Sting's relevance at this timely joining while making the two that much more relevant additions to this current Voice team. Jennifer meanwhile, also stayed relevant while not officially guesting, coaching via other appearances. While she may guest, sing she has been also visible via the NYT Wordle related comments after she and also numerous others joined the chorus online with similar word guessing travails since everybody playing any particular date actually all see exactly those Wordle choices anyway for correct word guesses or no as detailed by NYT even after her hosting The Jennifer Hudson Show.

This isn't Jennifer's first rodeo on "The Voice," though. She's been a coach twice before and three seasons even, on the UK version (even winning once!), and also on American Idol of course! Despite being initially revealed at a time of major recent changes to music and studio industry formats due to both labor and contract disruptions along with AI advancements Jennifer kept relevant on News discussions by being even quoted now recently like with a Billboard quote also.

The Voice Season 26: Jennifer Hudson, Sting, and the Mega Mentors' Knockout Round Guidance

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These Mega Mentors join the coaches at just the right time. Their combined Musical superpowers will guide the contestants, through three-way Knockouts.

In this new twist for Season 26 three People compete while only their coach picks only one for further round progression (while each coach may employ additional tactics once for both Save AND Steal instances in this upcoming Knockout Round, slated for broadcast on Monday Nov 11.) Also both Mega Mentors were widely praised among social and online commentariat too - and not for trivial things, many liked these choices and expressed similar high expectations via X and Instagram!

Jennifer Hudson and The Voice: From 'American Idol' to 'The Voice' Coach to Mega Mentor'

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JHud's journey has been anything but ordinary. She began her career as an "American Idol" contestant so in a certain meta way brings things full circle at another musical journey competition among aspiring musical vocalists at this returning yet upgraded mentorship status!

Since then, even after a hugely praised and admired talk show career, the ever multitalented creative also released the full length album titled "The Gift of Love" in October, alongside a third talk show hoSting season as just latest public visibility among multiple ongoing media headlines further cementing JHud relevance among The Voice cast additions too, all perfectly timed among all involved here at this key airing season!

Sting and The Voice Season 26: First-Time Mega Mentor Joins the Singing Competition!

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Not only was Jennifer already trending herself Sting simultaneously enjoyed recent headlines also around joining Kennedy Center honorees at end of September this year adding yet another accolade. That visibility coincided with both releasing their albums on 18th Oct - timed to further remind at exactly the moment when these "Voice" related details got even announced!

Despite recent AI advancements possibly also altering music studio and labor markets as widely written these new mega mentors all continued being newsworthy via a high-paced string of appearances at exactly this show’s current season at ideal periods maximizing coverage. Many sites, including the pop music focused Billboard news site among others noted Sting released My Songs, Vol 2 and this current season even gave these performers a reason to come back!

The Voice and NBC Season 26 Updates: Knockout Round, Coaches and More from the Singing Competition Show!

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So, mark your calendars, “Voice” fans! The three-way Knockouts kick off on Monday, November 11th. Remember to stay caught up via recent recaps if that worked better since episodes post on streaming on Peacock the very next day allowing some format and view timing options.

The regular team stays otherwise for all others beyond just mentors so Gwen Stefani and Snoop Dog (whose commentary can be widely seen via quotes, links all over various Snoop Dogg related entertainment sites too,) remain alongside the aforementioned newer Coach Michael Buble with long-running star Reba too rounding out their Voice Team and related duties and commentary in helping aspiring singing artists realize their dreams of musical stardom! So, tune in and witness the magic happen.