Blake Shelton Was Shocked by Contestants on 'The Voice'

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Blake Shelton returns to 'The Voice' tonight (May 10) with his hand-picked team, who prepare to battle it out. The contestants are going to get some help, though, when the 'Honey Bee' singer reveals his secret weapon: Reba McEntire. In tonight's "battle rounds," participants from the same team will go head-to-head, singing the same song, and their coach will vote one of them off.

Since the Oklahoma native wasn't able to see any of the entrants before he chose them, was he surprised by any of their appearances? "There's definitely times I hit my button and turned around, and it was all I could do not to go, 'Oh, my God! What the H---?'" Blake tells The Boot. "Sometimes the voice doesn't match the face, and it's alarming sometimes. It's crazy."

He may have been shocked, but that doesn't mean it was a negative reaction. "It's interesting because I watched the first episode, and I never thought of it from this angle," he continues. "There was this girl on there that was drop-dead beautiful, and she got picked based on her talent and not her looks, and she was as emotional as anybody for being picked. I think she felt that for the first time somebody paid attention to what she wanted them to pay attention to. It was interesting to see what that meant to her."

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