LeAnn Rimes a 'one and done' The Voice coach as she struggles to 'find her groove' on the singing show

LeAnn Rimes has been pegged as a 'one and done' coach on The Voice Australia by TV insiders. 

After Daily Mail Australia revealed the '90s country music star, 42, would be using her turn on the The Voice Australia as 'a dress rehearsal' for the more popular UK iteration of the show, those behind the scenes have suggested Rimes will indeed be leaving sooner rather than later.

Rimes joined the TV singing competition this year, after homegrown songstress Jessica Mauboy, Brit Rita Ora, and American hitmaker Jason Derulo left their big red chairs.

Despite this season of The Voice Australia firming up to be The Block's prime time ratings contender, industry insiders claim it may not be enough to persuade new coach LeAnn to commit to regular appearances Down Under. 

'She could well be a "one and done" coach,' a TV insider told New Idea on Monday.  

'So far, she has struggled to find her voice on the show, as her fellow coaches Guy Sebastian, Kate Miller-Heidke and Adam Lambert banter with one another – and snap up the most talented contestants.'

Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian, who started on The Voice in 2019, is the last judge remaining from the 2023 line-up. 

Production for this season got underway in March, when Jess was touring her Yours Forever album, Rita was in the US filming the American version of The Masked Singer after joining the judging panel there, and Derulo was touring in Europe. 

LeAnn made her debut on The Voice this year alongside Guy and the two other new coaches, fellow American Adam Lambert and Kate Miller-Heidke.

Respected, classically-trained Aussie pop singer-songwriter Kate is believed to have replaced Jess as 'the nice judge' archetype. 

Ghost Town singer Adam, who arrived in Sydney to perform at Mardi Gras in March, is the obvious replacement for Jason as the global hitmaker judge. 

Adam has 'proved popular' the magazine's source continued, because he's an example of how to make a career stick after winning the competition.

The runner-up in American Idol back in 2009 went on to tour the world with Queen’s Roger Taylor and Brian May.

LeAnn, then, is the substitute for 33-year-old UK songstress Rita — but there's an age gap problem. 

The insider claimed some of the younger contestants on the show were initially 'reluctant' to choose LeAnn as their new coach because 'they didn't know who she was.' 

LeAnn's signature hit song How Do I Live topped global charts in 1997, followed up by Can't Fight The Moonlight from 2000 film Coyote Ugly — before some of this season's younger contestants were born. 

The Voice Australia continues to be pipped in the TV ratings by Nine's home renovation show The Block, which pulled an average of 1.039 million viewers last week compared to its 986,000. 

Channel Seven will not yet comment whether there will be changes to show's judging panel in 2025.