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Adam Levine’s lips don’t lie. The Maroon 5 singer joked that he and Blake Shelton are terrified of their new The Voice co-star Sharkira, who along with Usher will be replacing Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera for Season 4 of the hit MUCH show.

Adam says he has no plans to subject her to any initiation ceremonies because he knows the pregnant star is more than a match for him, saying “[Fellow coach] Blake Shelton and I don’t have it in our hearts to do anything terrible and I know Shakira, she could knock me out.”

While he is excited about working with Shakira, Adam will miss Christina, despite their bickering on the show. He told Us Weekly magazine “We never hated each other. It was just silly bickering, like brother and sister. That’s in the past, I’ll miss her next season.”

Adam recently hit out at criticism of Christina’s fuller figure, saying “It’s not cool. I’ve never liked it. I think it’s horrible and I’ll totally defend [Christina] when people say things like that because it’s no one’s business. The one thing about the culture right now, celebrity culture particularly, is people feel like they can just say nasty things about other people whether it’s Christina or whether it’s me. Of course I have her back and of course I defend her.”

Watch Season 3 of The Voice every Wednesday at 8E/5P on MUCH.

Tags: Adam Levine, News, shakira, The Voice

Posted on Monday, November 12th, 2012 at 12:26 pm by Allison and is filed under News, The Voice.

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