The Voice tour dates cancelled amid poor ticket sales (we can see Simon Cowell’s smug expression now)

The Voice tour dates cancelled amid poor ticket sales (we can see Simon Cowell’s smug expression now)

Well, this is awkward. After everyone had a good laugh about the fact that Simon Cowell had to move Britain’s Got Talent to avoid clashing with The Voice, the BBC talent show has cancelled its tour amid poor ticket sales.

The eight finalists of The Voice (Leanne Mitchell, Bo Bruce, Vince Kidd, Becky Hill, Max Milner, Jaz Ellington, Tyler James and Ruth Brown, fact fans) were due to perform around the UK later this year, but many dates have been axed.

Ticket website GetToTheFront stated this morning: “The Voice UK dates in London, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham and Aberdeen have been cancelled, tickets to be refunded.”

Bo Bruce looks suitably embarrassed

Simon will be chuckling to himself in a diamond helicopter somewhere, with The X Factor live tour always being a huge success around the country. This year’s BGT didn’t include a tour â€" with last year’s attempt also resulting in failure â€" so he’ll be pleased to have dodged that bullet this time around.

Simon originally moved Britain’s Got Talent to avoid clashing with The Voice â€" which pulled in much higher ratings of 11million at the start of the series.

To be fair, Tyler should have his own tour. He's awesome

However, as the live shows kicked off across both series, BGT soon overtook TV (yeah, that acronym won’t kick off), which dropped to less than five million viewers.

The cancelled tour dates follow the news that Leanne's winner's single Run To You (a Whitney cover) only went to number 45 in the charts. Ouch.

Let this be a lesson to us all â€" Simon always gets the last laugh.