Battle Rounds 1: Highlights The Voice LOUDER

- Get ready. - It's time for The Voice...

Louder!!

And everybody is gearing

up for a fight.

We've made it to The Battles and boy, did we did we get a battle.

The acts got shaved in half. Not literally.

There were tears, joy and extremely awkward moments -

otherwise known as "the steal".

We'll be taking

a look at the highlights.

Let The Battles commence!

First into battle, the cat lady of Weston-super-Mare,

to fight the singing future Prime Minister.

Miss Sarah Eden-Winn

versus Jermain Jackman.

# I knew you were waiting

I knew you were waiting... #

So, who do you think Will is going to pick?

You

came up

to me at Hackney Weekend

and you was like, "Yo, I sing."

I'm like, "You should join The Voice, then."

I felt like this was Kismet and

it's supposed to happen like this.

I want to keep Jermain moving through.

APPLAUSE

Sorry, Sarah.

OK. Here comes the first awkward moment of the show -

otherwise known as the steal moment.

You'll be seeing more of them.

OK, Will - pistachio, cashew, macadamia...

what am I talking about?

- Er, that's nuts.

- Correct.

Next up,

Jimmy Weston versus Lee Glasson.

Do you want to see Lee's horse impression again?

Of course you do!

HE

NEIGHS

I could watch that all day.

Now where were we?

Oh, yes - The Battles!

# She says,

# Yeah, yeah But I said... #

After his victory, Lee kindly sucked the wax out of Jimmy's ear.

Nice.

Next into battle - the lady who

made Sir Tom cry, Sally

Barker,

versus rooting-tooting country gal Talia Smith!

#

Dear darling,

please excuse my writing... #

Sally once again moved Tom

to tears...

It's Sally.

..and victory.

Next into the ring were Ricky's

girls Beth McCarthy

versus Tila and Tavelah.

Two against one? That reminds me of Blockbusters.

#

I got the eye of the Tiger... #

And Ricky chose Beth to go through to the knockouts.

It's Beth.

Although I'm not sure Will agrees.

Up next - the man who made Kylie hide, Leo Ihenacho,

versus Diva's nephew Steven Alexander.

Hi, Tom! Hi, Tom!

# I feel thunder in my heart... #

The winner of this battle is Leo.

CHEERING

Kylie picked Leo but Sir Tom managed to make the awkward

moment...

sorry - steal moment - less awkward

and chose to steal

Steven for his own team.

Good on you, Tom!

This was the best part of the night for me - woo-hoo!

Up next, the man of a thousand voices' brother - Bizzi Dixon -

versus shy retiring Kenny Thompson.

# Found another girl to go again... #

# Remember to let her into your heart... #

Tom's not just a legend,

he can also do a really good

impression of a whip.

MAKES WHIP NOISE Give it some.

Did you get that? One more time.

HE MAKES WHIP NOISE Give it some.

Yee-ha! Try that at home.

# Yeah Hey Jude, hey Jude... #

Got to go with Bizzi .

And Tom chose Bizzi to go through to the next round.

Before rehearsals, Will went to see

the latest Hobbit movie

and now does a great impression of Smaug the Dragon.

Burn the whole place down with your voice.

Be a dragon. Raaaar.

I don't remember that

bit in the movie.

# Tainted love... #

Next up, it's the war of the divas.

Jai versus Nomakhosi.

# Can't stand the way you tease

# I love you though you hurt me so... #

It's Jai.

Jai!

Kylie chose Jai and Will made another awkward moment -

sorry - steal moment - even more awkward by saying...

I'm going to have to say no.

To Nomakhosi.

Nomakhosi.

Oh, you trickster, Will!

The

next battle was between

ex-Emmerdale girl Kelsey-Beth

and Emily Adams.

It's Emily.

Ricky sent Kelsey-Beth

back to the dales

taking Emily through to the next

round.

# Think I speak too much

# I don't care, I don't care... #

Next up the lady who runs

the swimming school for dogs.

Take a drinky?

Mairead versus Celestine.

Celestine.

And it was Celestine who Tom chose

to go through to the knockouts.

Next up, the girl with the harp, Anna McCluckie,

- versus the girl with the... - Um...

..Jessica Steele.

She cried in the blinds last year,

then she cried in the blinds this year, now she's made it

through to The Battles. The big question - will she cry again?

Uh-oh - there goes those emotions.

And the answer is - of course!

# For what it's worth, it was worth all the while... #

# Something unpredictable... #

Anna.

And it's Anna through to the next round.

Hang on.

Her name is Jessica Steele. The question is, will she get a steal?

And the answer is yes!

Uh-oh - there go those emotions.

# Oh, the power of love

# A force from above

# Cleaning my soul... #

And

finally,

the battle of the BIG voices.

Nathan Amzi versus Christina Marie.

# The power of love

# A force from above... #

After such a mind-blowing battle,

Will's mind is now - officially - completely blown.

That one?

People watching this at home - what Nathan just did right now was

he was thrown in to outer space being an...

Er, sorry, Will - what are you going on about?

..animal that lives in the ocean...

What are you talking about?

And he performed wonderful fleets out there...

Can we send out for a new fuse for Will's brain?

I think this one has gone.

..like a ballerina going to a football, rugby match

and just like wrecking shop.

Christina.

And it's Christina who goes through to the next round.

If Will has his say, I imagine Nathan will be doing

pirouettes on the moon.

Let's take a look at this week's What Do You Meme?

Our favourite

caption

was from Amanda Ewins.

Most amusing. Thanks, Amanda!

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What Do

You Memes next week and

you could see your name in the show.

And here it is, the moment you've

all been waiting for -

Well, that was hard.

So it's time for us to say goodbye

but make sure you keep checking the website

throughout the week for all things The Voice.

And do keep your thoughts, feedback

and general joining in coming in to us.

And you never know, maybe you'll be featured on next week's show.

Come back next week for round two of The Battles.

Everyone is getting feisty!

Let the battle...er...continue!

So don't forget to come back next week for more from The Voice...

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