Danny O'Donoghue: I'll miss Jessie J on The Voice

Danny O'Donoghue: I'll miss Jessie J on The Voice
Danny O'Donoghue: I'll miss Jessie J on The Voice (Image credit: BBC/Wall To Wall/David Venni)

Danny O'Donoghue has admitted that he will miss having Jessie J as a judge on The Voice when it returns next year. The Script frontman, who has previously said he will be back for a second series, all but confirmed rumours that Jessie will not be returning to the show - but added in an interview with The People that it had nothing to do with her alleged 'diva' behaviour on the first series. "She wasn't a diva at all," he said. "I have never seen her throw tantrums. "Jessie is incredibly articulate and she's headstrong. That sometimes can be misconstrued as being too arrogant. But she’s a brilliant role model for young women." "I'm really sad she’s not coming back," he added. "We have a great friendship." Both Danny and Will.i.am appear keen to return to the show next year, although Tom Jones has yet to say whether he will be back. Meanwhile Danny also denied rumours that he and contestant Bo Bruce, whom he mentored on the show, were an item - although he did admit to having a new girlfriend. "Everybody kind of bought into it but no, there’s nothing behind it," he said. "I'm back in touch with a girl I was seeing before I was in The Script. We've been texting. Watch this space."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.