{"id":171080,"date":"2025-05-28T20:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/blake-shelton-responds-to-amas-pretape-criticism-with-gwen-stefani\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:15:02","slug":"blake-shelton-responds-to-amas-pretape-criticism-with-gwen-stefani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/blake-shelton-responds-to-amas-pretape-criticism-with-gwen-stefani\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton Responds to AMAs Pretape Criticism With Gwen Stefani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/blake-shelton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Blake Shelton<\/strong><\/a> reacted to the chatter from fans about his and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/gwen-stefani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gwen Stefani<\/strong><\/a> recent performance at 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/tag\/american-music-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Music Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust now seeing these stories about Gwen and I pretaping our performances for the AMA\u2019s,\u201d Shelton, 48, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/blakeshelton\/status\/1927565141429637542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote on X<\/a> on Tuesday, May 27. \u201cWe came and performed when the show asked us to \u2026 Really nothing else to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Monday, May 26, televised event, Shelton sang his song \u201cStay Country or Die Tryin\u201d while Stefani, 55, sang a medley of songs from her hit album <em>Love. Angel. Music. Baby.<\/em> and her new song \u201cSwallow My Tears.\u201d Before Stefani performed, Shelton gave his wife a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/gwen-stefani-and-blake-sheltons-sweetest-moments-relationship-timeline-w166297\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sweet introduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight, she\u2019s celebrating the 20th anniversary of that AMA win by performing two of her biggest hits and her newest hit. Let\u2019s hear it for my one and only, the one and only Gwen Stefani.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While viewers at home enjoyed seeing Stefani and Shelton perform on screen, the live audience had a different reaction. Fans took to social media at the time of the awards show, which took place on Monday, May 26, at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Blake Shelton is \u2018performing\u2019 at the AMA Awards but there is no sign of Blake Shelton in sight \ud83e\udee0,\u201d a user wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@savewithfelix\/video\/7508963579425656110?_r=1&amp;_t=ZN-8whLMckS8qU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another fan also called out Stefani for doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGwen Stefani Live at the AMAs\u2026 the live view\u2026 \u201cWe\u2019ve been lied to,\u201d a second user wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@alywinder\/video\/7508926160449867054?embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121497414%2C121477481%2C121351166%2C121487028%2C121679410%2C73347567%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C121503376%3Bnull%3Bembed_masking&amp;refer=embed&amp;referer_url=ew.com%2Fgwen-stefani-called-out-for-not-performing-amas-live-11742725&amp;referer_video_id=7508926160449867054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TikTok clip<\/a>, \u201cLIKE WHATTT\u2026 why would they say performing live when they aren\u2019t even here?? \ud83d\ude2d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While fans who were in attendance at the AMAs in person were disappointed by Stefani and Shelton\u2019s not appearing IRL, the \u201cGod\u2019s Country\u2019 singer did do something special for his fans. A source told <em>Us Weekly<\/em> that Shelton held a performance for fans at his bar Ole Red after doing the pretape on Saturday, May 24.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Stefani and Shelton were announced as performers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/stylish\/news\/jennifer-lopezs-8-ama-outfits-include-last-minute-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alongside host<\/a> <strong>Jennifer Lopez<\/strong>, <strong>Janet Jackson<\/strong> and <strong>Rod Stewart<\/strong>. Jackson and Stewart were also awarded with the ICON Award and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/rod-stewarts-kids-have-surprise-reunion-to-celebrate-dad-at-2025-amas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lifetime Achievement Award<\/a>, respectively. <strong>Gloria Estefan<\/strong>, <strong>Benson Boone<\/strong>, <strong>Lainey Wilson<\/strong>, <strong>Rene\u00e9 Rapp<\/strong>, <strong>Becky G<\/strong>, <strong>Manuel Turizo<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Warren<\/strong> also took the stage. Shelton and Stefani were seemingly the only musical acts to not perform live at the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the AMAs, Stefani shared a clip of her rehearsing for the awards show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRehearsals \ud83c\udfa4 \ud83d\udc93 gx #AMAs @amas @cbstv @paramoutplus,\u201d Stefani captioned an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKFDbkwRiXa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram Reel<\/a> set to her song \u201cWind It Up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/blake-shelton-responds-to-amas-pretape-criticism-with-gwen-stefani\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Shelton reacted to the chatter from fans about his and Gwen Stefani recent performance at 2025 American Music Awards. \u201cJust now seeing these stories about Gwen and I pretaping our performances for the AMA\u2019s,\u201d Shelton, 48, wrote on X on Tuesday, May 27. \u201cWe came and performed when the show asked us to \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}