"The Voice" coach and Oklahoma country music star Blake Shelton will host his own Christmas television Special December 3 on NBC. TRAE PATTON/NBC
Oklahoma's Blake Shelton will host his first Christmas television special, "Blake Shelton's Not So Family Christmas,” December 3 with an encore December 14 on NBC, channel 2, cable 9.
The CMA Awards Entertainer of the Year and reigning Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association Male Vocalist of the year will be joined by Grammy Award-winning guest Kelly Clarkson, Oklahoma's Reba McEntire and his wife Miranda Lambert on songs including "Let It Snow," "There's a New Kid in Town," "Oklahoma Christmas" and "Home."
Shelton and Lambert make their home on a ranch near Tishomingo.
The coutnry artist, who serves as a coach on NBC's hit reality competition "The Voice," will also perform a duet with his mother, Dorothy Shackleford, with whom he co-wrote the song "Time for Me to Come Home," and appear in several comedy sketches featuring guests fellow "Voice" coach Christina Aguilera, Larry the Cable Guy and Jay Leno, host of the network's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
"I love Christmas music," Shelton told NBC.
"I listen to it year-round. I had always wanted to do a Christmas album so getting to do 'Cheers, It's Christmas' was exciting for me, and then to have NBC let me do a special around the CD, well, I still can't believe it.
I am so proud of the performances on the show, the skits are hilarious and the icing on the cake was having the opportunity to perform with my mom, a song we co-wrote together. Christmas has always been about family to me so having my mom and Miranda there - that made it Christmas."
Shelton has had seven consecutive #1 singles - four of which are off his 2012 Grammy-nominated album, "Red River Blue." His hit "Honey Bee" holds the record for the fastest-selling digital platinum single for a male country solo artist and the single held the #1 spot on the Billboard Country chart for four weeks in a row with over 40 million in audience.
“Blake Shelton’s Not So Family Christmas” is produced by Irwin Entertainment. John Irwin and Narvel Blackstock, husband of McEntire, are the executive producers.
In this video, Shelton talks about the special with "Access Hollywood."
