Will.i.am has hinted that he already has a replacement in mind for Jennifer Hudson on The Voice - his pal Cheryl.
The 35-year-old has recently finished her first season of judging on BBC's The Greatest Dancer, and Will reckons that the singer would be a perfect fit on The X Factor's rival show.
This comes after Jennifer Hudson suggested that she might have to step down due to other major acting commitments.
The Oscar winner, 37, is set to be part of legendary Andrew Lloyd Webber West End musical Cats and appear in an Aretha Franklin biopic.
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She told the Daily Star : "It’s kind of going into film season for me.
"I was thinking that I truly, truly love this and that’s why I’m three seasons deep in. I want to continue it, but I don’t know that my schedule will allow me to. "
Meanwhile Will said that while he hadn't seen Cheryl for a while until recently, he thought she could be "good" on the show.
"I just saw her last week and it was a good reunion. She’d be good," he said.
The pair were very close during her judging stint on The X Factor and he helped producer her first singles as a solo artist.
She also featured on his 2007 hit Heartbreaker and the Black Eyed Peas star became her manager in 2012.
But things reportedly began to go wrong after Cheryl was infamously dropped from The X Factor USA in 2011.
In 2013 she ended up cutting ties with her American management team and replaced Will as her manager with Modest Management.
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