ASHER HaVon won The Voice – although outraged fans think Nathan Chester was “robbed” by coming fourth.
The 31-year-old vocal powerhouse, who is part of Reba McEntire’s team, was crowned season 25 winner during Tuesday night’s finale.
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Asher and Nathan joined Karen Waldrup, Josh Sanders and Bryan Olesen as the top five singers competing to win The Voice.
Josh, who was also on Reba’s team, came second, with Bryan third and Karen fifth.
Asher, who is from Selma, Alabama, was stunned by a moving rendition of Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You on Monday night.
He followed it up on Tuesday with a duet with Reba from Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald’s On My Own.
Nathan, who said at the start of the show that he wanted to “bring back the James Brown style of Motown”, sang It’s Your Thing and Leon Russell’s The Isley Brothers’ A Song For You on Monday.
The 28-year-old cruise ship entertainer sang Percy Sledge’s When a Man Loves a Woman with his coach John Legend in the second half of Tuesday’s final.
Fans at home were devastated that the Chicago native didn’t win the competition or come in second.
“Nathan was robbed. No way, 4th place. Should have been #1 or #2,” one wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Nathan in 4th place doesn’t please me,” wrote another.
“Nathan was in the top 2, let’s be honest!!! America, you will never be able to vote correctly,” a third fumed.
“He should have been second! No way fourth! Asher and him had the best voices,” another person commented.
Another viewer said they hoped Nathan would win, in a post shared before the vote results were announced.
“I REALLY hope you guys let Nathan win, he has been the most consistent all season and tonight will be no different,” they posted.
Earlier this week, viewers criticized The Voice for giving credit to the wrong artist during Nathan’s performance.
He sang A Song for You, which pianist Leon Russell recorded in 1970.
However, The Voice gave credit to Donny Hathaway – who released a version of the song shortly after – in praising Nathan’s performance in X.
Fans said it “made them mad” that the producers hadn’t verified who the original artist behind the song was and encouraged them to “Google it!”
The Voice winners
The Voice is an American television series broadcast on NBC.
American vocalists work alongside a panel of celebrity judges to compete for a $100,000 prize and a recording contract with Universal Music Group. Previous winners are as follows:
- Season 1: Javier Colón
- Season 2: Jermaine Paul
- Season 3: Papa Cassadee
- Season 4: Danielle Bradbery
- Season 5: Tessanne Chin
- Season 6: Josh Kaufman
- Season 7: Craig Wayne Boyd
- Season 8: Sawyer Fredericks
- Season 9: Jordan Smith
- Season 10: Alisan Porter
- Season 11: Sundance Head
- Season 12: Chris Blue
- Season 13: Chloe Kohanski
- Season 14: Brynn Cartelli
- Season 15: Chevel Shepherd
- Season 16: Maelyn Jarmon
- Season 17: Jake Hoot
- Season 18: Todd Tilghman
- Season 19: Carter Rubin
- Season 20: Cam Anthony
- Season 21: Girl Named Tom
- Season 22: Bryce Leatherwood
- Season 23: Gina Miles
- Season 24: Michael Huntley
The Voice returns this fall with a new panel of coaches, including Reba, Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg and Michael Bublé.
John Legend and his fellow Season 25 coaches Chance the Rapper and Dan + Shay have announced they are leaving the show.
John, who joined the competition in season 16, revealed he has plenty of plans to keep him busy.
“We always have so many things going on. I will do a lot of shows this summer and travel abroad,” said the singer. ET.
He’ll also be spending plenty of quality time with wife Chrissy Teigen and their four children — Luna, 7, Miles, 6, Esti, 1, and Wren (via a surrogate), also 1.
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