‘The Voice’ coach Reba McEntire almost lost before the finale

Now it really is anyone’s game The voice.

Coaches Michael Bublé, Reba McEntire, Snoop Dogg and Gwen Stefani all have contestants in next week’s grand finale. But it almost didn’t work out that way.

Tuesday’s show saw the show’s top eight competitors – two members from each team – cut in half. Team Gwen’s Sydney Sterlace, Team Snoop’s Jeremy Beloate and both members of Team Bublé, Sofronio Vasquez and Shye, were the top four votes after Monday’s episode. Things were not looking good for Team Reba.

After these results were revealed, the remaining four singers took to the stage individually to perform songs of their choice. They battled for the public vote in the Instant Save, which viewers had about five minutes to use. The extra survivor: Danny Joseph of Team Reba, who belted out a soulful, indie-rock version of “House of the Rising Sun” by The Animals.

Joseph pulled off the win over Team Reba’s Adam Bohanan, who sang Maxwell’s “Pretty Wings”; Team Snoop’s Christina Eagle, who performed the delicate “Heart Like a Truck” by Lainey Wilson; and new father Jan Dan’s soulful cover of John Mayer’s “Gravity”. Stefani adored him all season and after his last song up there she said, “America, what are we doing?”

Before Joseph was named the saved contestant, he and McEntire said goodbye.

He thanked her for giving him confidence again after he had a major operation at the beginning of the year.

“You know what?” McEntire replied. “God made you fit to come and do this for us because the world would have been so deprived without you up on this stage for us all to listen to you sing and see you perform because you are completely different than anyone else at this competition this season And I’m very proud that you’ve been on my team, I love you to pieces.

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While McEntire almost went without a contestant in the finale this season, she was the winner of season 25. Her contestant Asher HaVon, the show’s first openly LGBTQ contestant, was her first win.

On Monday, the “Fancy” singer and her co-stars will watch as the five finalists sing another tune that America then votes on. The winner of the entire season — and a record deal — will be announced in the finale, which airs Tuesday, Dec. 10, on NBC.