It’s time to have a drink for the winner of the 19th season of The Voice!
The NBC Signing Contest crowned its winner at the season finale on Tuesday, December 15, with Team Gwen Stefani’s Carter Rubin, Team Blake Shelton’s runner-up Jim Ranger. The win brought the committed coaching couple against each other and marked Gwen’s first winning season.
“Oh my god, we won!” Gwen exclaimed in a video with Carter that the star posted “Just a Girl” on Twitter immediately after the exciting announcement. “This is so crazy. We’re trying to understand that this is happening.”
In the video below, she also joked about the difficulty of partying during the ongoing pandemic. “And we shouldn’t even be close to each other,” she complained.
Blake proved to be a good sport when it came to not taking the title. “Congratulations on the win @gwenstefani!” he tweeted. “I’m slipping this! @Carterjrubin … if someone hits #TeamBlake, I’m glad it’s you !!!!”
There were five finalists remaining when the show went into showdown on Tuesday. They were Carter Rubin from Team Gwen, John Holiday from Team John Legend, DeSz from Team Kelly Clarkson, and Jim Ranger from Team Blake and Ian Flanigan.