The Voice Kids is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The sixth series began airing on 26 December 2022, on ITV. Emma Willis returned to present the series. Danny Jones, Pixie Lott and will.i.am returned as coaches, whilst, on 21 January 2022, it was announced that former The Voice Australia coach Ronan Keating would replace Melanie C this series. Similar to the previous series, it was announced that the series would contain three episodes – two blind auditions and the final – which aired over three consecutive nights, with the show concluding on 28 December.
Israella Chris won the competition, marking Pixie Lott's fourth win as a coach and the most wins in any version of the UK variation of the show after Sir Tom Jones gained his third victory in the eleventh regular series.
Teams Colour key: Winner Finalist Eliminated in the Battles
Coach Top 16 Artists will.i.am Tawana McGrath Carter J Murphy Amber Gregg Darcie Mann Ronan Keating Sebastian Foreign Freya Nicoll Aimee McKelvie Lyra Tucker Pixie Lott Israella Chris Tommy Featherstone Lacey Leadbetter Eva Norton Danny Jones Todd Dachtler Bethany Myleen Chivasa Caelan Edie
Blind auditions
+ Blind auditions colour key ✔ Coach pressed "I WANT YOU" button Artist defaulted to this coach's team Artist elected to join this coach's team Artist eliminated as no coach pressed his or her "I WANT YOU" button Artist received an 'All Turn'.
Episode 1 (26 December) The first episode aired on 26 December 2022 and featured the first round of auditions. + Episode one results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choices will.i.am Ronan Pixie Danny 1Freya Nicoll 13 "Piece of My Heart" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Carter J Murphy 7 "Dear Darlin'" ✔ – – – 3 Olga 11 "Crazy in Love" – – – – 4 Lacey Leadbetter 11 "Bridge over Troubled Water" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 5 Myleen Chivasa 14 "Almost Is Never Enough" – ✔ – ✔ 6 Sebastian Foreign 9 "L-O-V-E" – ✔ – – 7 Bethany 14 "Drivers License" – – – ✔ 8 Tommy Featherstone 13 "Make You Feel My Love" – – ✔ ✔ 9Tawana McGrath 13 "Ain't No Sunshine" ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Episode 2 (27 December) The second episode aired on 27 December 2022 and featured the second round of auditions. + Episode two results Order Artist Age Song Coach's and contestant's choices will.i.am Ronan Pixie Danny 1 Israella Chris 13 "Georgia on My Mind" – ✔ ✔ ✔ 2 Todd Dachtler 14 "Always Be My Baby" – ✔ – ✔ 3 Gabriella & Jasmine Tuicicia 12 & 10 "Master Blaster (Jammin')" – – – – 4 Amber Gregg 10 "Remember" ✔ – – – 5 Caelan Edie 12 "i" – – – ✔ 6 Aimee McKelvie 12 "Wild World" – ✔ – rowspan="5" 7 Eva Norton 12 "Jealous" – – ✔ 8 Darcie Mann 14 "Bruises" ✔ – rowspan="3" 9 Sam 14 "Bring Him Home" rowspan="2" – 10 Lyra Tucker 14 "River" ✔
Show details Results summary Team's colour key Team Will Team Ronan Team Pixie Team Danny
Result's colour key Artist received the most public votes Runner-up Third Finalist Artist received the least public votes Artist was eliminated
+ Results per artist Contestant Battles round Grand Final Israella Chris Safe Winner Tawana McGrath Safe Runner-up Sebastian Foreign Safe Third Place Todd Dachtler Safe Fourth Place Eva Norton Eliminated Eliminated (Battles round) Lacey Leadbetter Eliminated Tommy Featherstone Eliminated Amber Gregg Eliminated Carter J Murphy Eliminated Darcie Mann Eliminated Bethany Eliminated Caelan Edie Eliminated Myleen Chivasa Eliminated Aimee McKelvie Eliminated Freya Nicoll Eliminated Lyra Tucker Eliminated
Final (28 December) The final episode aired on 28 December 2022.
Battles round
+ Battles colour key Artist won the Battle and advanced to the Grand Final Artist lost the Battle and was eliminated
+ Battles results Order Coach Artists Song 1 Ronan Keating Sebastian Foreign Freya Nicoll Aimee McKelvie Lyra Tucker "Without You" 2 Danny Jones Todd Dachtler Caelan Edie Myleen Chivasa Bethany "Say Something" 3 will.i.am Tawana McGrath Carter J Murphy Darcie Mann Amber Gregg "Levitating" 4 Pixie Lott Israella Chris Tommy Featherstone Lacey Leadbetter Eva Norton "Time After Time"
Grand Final + Final results Order Coach Artist Song Result 1 Danny Jones Todd Dachtler "In My Blood" Fourth Place 2 Ronan Keating Sebastian Foreign "Rainbow Connection" Third Place 3 will.i.am Tawana McGrath "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" Runner-up 4 Pixie Lott Israella Chris "How Great Thou Art" Winner
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