Country music star Blake Shelton just said what we’ve all been thinking after months in quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic: “2020 sucks.” The longtime “The Voice” judge went on to joke that he has a special way of dealing with the stress of this year.
“2020 sucks and I refuse to spend another minute sober!” Shelton joked while drinking something out of a dark mug as he appeared on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
He went on to say that this year has been awful, and that he is excited for normal life to start back up again. However, Shelton did admit that the silver lining of this year has been getting to spend more time in his home state of Oklahoma with his girlfriend, Gwen Stefani, and her three sons.
“[Gwen] got to be there and actually see it from pretty much winter to spring to summer and see some seasons change,” Shelton said.
Like many of us, the singer had big plans for 2020 that were derailed by COVID-19. In March, just before the shutdown started, Shelton was preparing to go on tour.
“We canceled my tour on March 12, like literally as we were building the stage for the production for that day in Omaha, Nebraska,” Shelton explained. “We were supposed to be making some footage for a video for our single ‘Nobody but You.’ We had a whole plan, we had a different camera crew out there filming these concerts, and we only got to film one.”
DeGeneres made sure to thank Shelton and Stefani for reaching out to her during the scandal she went through this summer as dozens of current and former staffers came forward to accuse her of turning a blind eye to racism, intimidation, and sexual misconduct on the set of her daytime talk show.
“Thanks for reaching out to me this summer, you and Gwen reached out to me when things were going a little bit crazy and I appreciate it very much, so thank you,” DeGeneres said, to which Shelton responded, “Absolutely, we love you.”
This comes days after Shelton opened up to fans about how he has spent his months in quarantine.
“This summer during quarantine, I learned how to make jam,” Shelton said in a new video as photos of the homemade jam-making process were shown. “I have about six or eight peach trees, and every year they make a bunch of peaches and we eat them.”
“But this year, since we were there and there were so many and there was nothing else to do, we got online and we learned how to make jam,” he added. “We’ve made, like, cases of peach jam. That’s a lot of work! Probably will never do that again but I know how to do it.”
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