Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani Barely Talked Behind the Scenes on The Voice

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are the one power couple of the music industry, equally beloved by the media and fans.

However, the stars' road to becoming a couple was far from quick and smooth. Despite working in the same field for so many years, the two only met in 2014, when they were coaches on The Voice — Blake was there from the start and has stayed with the show throughout all 23 seasons, and Gwen joined him in Season 7. In fact, Stefani didn't actually know who Blake Shelton was prior to meeting him on the talent show.

What's more, when the two singers finally met, they almost didn't talk to each other.

Both were still married to their previous spouses at the time — Stephani to Gavin Rossdale, the lead singer and guitarist of Bush, and Shelton to Miranda Lambert, a fellow country singer. Both were absorbed in their troubled family lives and work and barely even noticed each other when they occasionally met on The Voice's set.

Only after they broke up with their exes, which happened at around the same time in the summer of 2015, Blake and Gwen started getting closer. According to the stars themselves, they first bonded over discovering that they had suffered the exact same blow — a high-profile divorce — and tried to help each other live through that experience.

'Then we just started this friendship, which was just unbelievable that God would put us in a position to have each other at that moment, in the same exact moment,' Gwen Stefani later revealed on The Howard Stern Show.

Today, the couple seems to be totally in love with each other. As Shelton said in his and Stefani's pre-Grammy interview: 'You think you know what love is, and for me, I didn't until she came into my life.' The stars married in 2021 and have been living together happily since then. Fans are thrilled for the talented couple and hope that their love will last forever to support them throughout their lives and fuel their creativity.