Blake Shelton quitting The Voice to spend more quality time with wife Gwen Stefani and his stepsons - Daily Mail

After announcing October 11 that helium was quitting The Voice aft play 23, Blake Shelton is looking guardant to spending much prime clip with his 3rd woman Gwen Stefani and his 3 stepsons.

'If I walked distant from my vocation astatine this time, the lone happening that I tally the hazard of is having regrets that I'm missing retired connected immoderate much important things successful life. This isn't astir maine anymore and ne'er volition beryllium again,' the 46-year-old state crooner said successful his People cover communicative - hitting newsstands Friday.

'I've made plentifulness of money, but you can't bargain clip back. So that's what I privation to put successful now. For now, that's our kids. Even though I'm a stepparent, I instrumentality that occupation precise serious. And the kids don't spot maine arsenic thing but this precise important idiosyncratic successful their life. "Why isn't Blake here?" I instrumentality that worldly to heart.

'Each kid has thing antithetic to teach. I deliberation they've taught maine thing astir myself. I'm much than conscionable a state vocalist and a goofy guy. I'm idiosyncratic they really thin connected and that's not a work that I ever had and not thing that I ever considered being into. It's conscionable a antithetic aforesaid worth. Maybe it's the other of aforesaid worth.'

The 53-year-year-old popular prima welcomed Kingston, 16; Zuma, 14; and Apollo, 8; during her 13-year matrimony to Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, which ended successful August 2015 amid nanny cheating allegations.

And Blake famously began dating his Voice co-star Gwen 3 months aft legally separating from ex-wife #2 Miranda Lambert successful July 2015 aft 4 years of wedded bliss.

The joined mates of 17 months person besides released 4 duets - Happy Anywhere successful 2021, Nobody But You successful 2020, You Make It Feel Like Christmas successful 2017, and Go Ahead And Break My Heart successful 2016.

'The narration that we person is truthful earthy and truthful normal. This feels similar the easiest happening I've ever been a portion of successful my life, and I hide each time that she's "Gwen Stefani" you know?' Shelton gushed.

'And it's not until moments similar yesterday erstwhile she came retired of the dressing room. I virtually astir fainted erstwhile I saw her. It's like, ohio my god, it's those reminders that she's this icon. Or if I bring her retired onstage with maine to sing oregon I spell to 1 of her shows...To me, she's my champion person and everything that I request and thin on.'

And portion Stefani and the eight-time Voice champ ain a $13.2M mansion successful LA's Encino neighborhood, they are happiest erstwhile they're relaxing astatine their 1,382-acre 10 Point Ranch successful Tishomingo successful his autochthonal Oklahoma.

'I deliberation our biggest bonding, arsenic acold arsenic thing that we bash unneurotic too music, has to beryllium gardening,' Blake noted. 

'We spell mode implicit the top. I mean, if there's a splurge that is embarrassing it would beryllium however overmuch we astir apt walk connected seeds. Like, boxes of seeds travel to the location that we get disconnected Amazon oregon immoderate of these gardening centers. It's like, "I wonderment if we tin turn an Icelandic lily here?"

Shelton added: 'We get distant from everything and we're conscionable america backmost there. You don't person to beryllium anybody erstwhile we get to spell backmost to Oklahoma. You conscionable beryllium a household erstwhile you spell there...And that's wherever I consciousness the astir comfortable, happy, and safe.'

Catch much of the eight-time Grammy nominee, his Voice co-star Carson Daly, and erstwhile wrestler Nikki Bella's caller eight-episode personage crippled amusement Barmageddon, which airs Mondays connected the USA Network.

Blake and Gwen volition adjacent look successful the two-part unrecorded finale episodes of The Voice play 22 airing adjacent Monday and Tuesday connected NBC.

Shelton volition past footwear of his 18-date Back to the Honkey Tonk Tour connected February 16 astatine Nebraska's Pinnacle Bank Arena successful Lincoln.