Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson is desperate to return to The Voice six years after he quit

SIX years after sensationally quitting telly singing competition The Voice, former judge Ricky Wilson is campaigning to get himself back into one of the iconic red spinning chairs.

In an exclusive interview, the Kaiser Chiefs frontman said he regretted walking away from the show in 2016 when it was set to move from the BBC to ITV — and now he wants back in.

Former judge Ricky Wilson is campaigning to get himself back into one of the iconic red spinning chairs on The Voice

Ricky said: “I don’t find The Voice as exciting any more now I am not on it.

“I just feel like I should be there. I had done it for three years and I had won it twice and I felt like if I did it much longer . . . you know, as soon as you get popular, then people start criticising.

“And no one had started criticising me so I thought I’ll get out before anyone says anything bad or notices my tricks.

“The show was moving from BBC to ITV, so I thought that’s probably a good time because they’re going to rebrand it.

“I actually thought maybe they’re going to get rid of me.

“I should have stuck around. I did really enjoy it.

“Have they said, ‘Please, please come back, all is forgiven’? No. If I’d been asked, I would be there.”

Ricky won the series with Stevie McCrorie in 2015 and also with Kevin Simm the following year.

And although many years have passed since, the I Predict A Riot singer said he’s still in contact with other contestants from his time on the hit programme.

Ricky, who will perform at Wembley’s Ovo Arena on Wednesday as part of The National Lottery Big Thank You Concert, added: “I’m still in touch with loads of them, and loads of them are doing really well.

“But it’s a big business and you get a lot of pop stars and professional celebrities talking a lot about how they work really hard.

“And you have to get off your butt and work and stuff like that.

“But you’re not taking account of the main factor, which is luck. And I’ve been very, very lucky.

“I’ve got a better chance of winning the Lottery twice in a week than doing what I do. And I’m very grateful for that.”

SMOKIN’ MEGAN RINSES EXES

MEGAN THEE STALLION is soaking up the adoration from fans — as well as her bath suds — after dropping new single Plan B.

The rapper posed naked in a tub with a cigarette to promote the song, which is out today.

Megan Thee Stallion posed naked in a tub with a cigarette to promote the song, which is out today

Megan performed her latest track for the first time during her set at Coachella festival in California last weekend.

She isn’t particularly complimentary about her exes in the single, saying she took birth control pills so she could be in charge of her own life.

In the opening verse, Megan raps: “Dear f*** n***a, still can’t believe I used to f*** wit’ ya, poppin’ Plan B’s ’cause I ain’t planned to be stuck wit’ ya.”

She then belts out the chorus which includes the lines: “Ladies, love yourself, ’cause this s*** could get ugly, that’s why it’s, ‘F*** n***as, get money.’”

It’s a bit on the nose for me, but I think Megan’s fans are going to go wild for it.

NIC’S ON SNAKE-Y GROUND

NICOLAS CAGE has revealed he once spent £60,000 on a two-headed snake. But he had to give it away after struggling to look after it.

In a typically strange interview on US telly, the Hollywood A-lister said: “I was dreaming about two-headed eagles.

Nicolas Cage has revealed he once spent £60,000 on a two-headed snake

“One night I had this dream and then the next day my manager at the time got a phone call saying, ‘I’ve got a two-headed snake and I think your client Nic Cage would be interested’.”

He had just recalled an anecdote about donating £15,000 to an orphanage and admitted the serpent cost “four times the amount”.

But explaining how his relationship with the snake became slippery, he continued: “They would fight. One head was more dominant than the other. Why? It was going to the same stomach.

“But I would have to put a spatula between the two heads to feed them and it just got a little too freaky for me.

“So I took it to the zoo. It lived for 14 years and it died just recently.”

CALVIN’S 2ND WAV

CALVIN HARRIS is finally returning with his first album in five years, Funk Wav Bounces Vol 2.

The Scottish DJ, who has an Ibiza residency at Ushuaia with MK this summer, confirmed the news by sharing a photo of a billboard on Instagram which featured the title, alongside the caption ‘Summer ’22’.

Calvin Harris is finally returning with his first album in five years, Funk Wav Bounces Vol 2

Volume 1, released in 2017, featured collaborations with Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Frank Ocean and Nicki Minaj, so there are high hopes about who will be on the new album.

Fans are sure Dua Lipa will be one of them, after the success of her 2018 Calvin collaboration, One Kiss.

Her dad and manager Dukajin commented a string of flame emojis on Calvin’s post, with one fan replying: “Is this a sign that there’s a Dua Lipa collab on this new album?”

I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

NOEL TUNES OUT NOISE… LIKE HE DID WITH BRO

HIS brother Liam admitted this week his body is falling apart, leaving him needing a double hip replacement.

But his estranged sibling Noel Gallagher, who is five years older, is fighting fit and says he has even naturally reversed his tinnitus.

Noel Gallagher says he has naturally reversed his tinnitus

The High Flying Birds frontman said he developed the condition, which leaves sufferers with a constant ringing in their ears, after performing in front of loud amplifiers with Oasis.

But he says after learning to tune out the sound in his head, his hearing is back to normal.

He told Matt Morgan on his podcast: “I had tinnitus for a while. It’s very high-pitched whistling.

“What tinnitus is, is the sound of your brain. What happens in most cases is once your brain gets used to this sound it will just tune it out.

“As soon as your brain has accepted that it’s all right then it will just dial it out. Fascinating.

“And it did. It took about a year and now I can’t even hear it because my brain has gone, ‘Oh, I know what that is, that’s normal’.”