Gwen Stefani is excited to return as a coach on NBC's singing competition series "The Voice," sharing the show with new beau Blake Shelton. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about Gwen.
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1. Gwen penned some of No Doubt’s most successful songs, including Don’t Speak and Hey You! from 1995’s Tragic Kingdom album, which were about her breakup with bandmate Tony Kanal.
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2. Rumors of Gwen and Blake’s romance erupted after the pair attended George Clooney’s and Jared Leto’s rival Halloween parties in 2015!
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3. Born in Anaheim, Calif., in 1969, she was named after a stewardess in the 1968 novel "Airport."
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4. She earned her first dollar as a teen serving ice cream at Dairy Queen, and says, “When I started there, I fit in my outfit. When I ended there, I did not fit in my outfit.
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5. At 17, her brother Eric invited her to sing backup with his band, No Doubt. When the lead singer committed suicide, she stepped into the spotlight.
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6. She cites Blondie’s Debbie Harry as a major influence because of her combination of power and sex appeal.
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7. She’s a slacker! “What everyone doesn’t know about me is I’m generally a lazy person,” she confesses. “My favorite thing to do is sit in bed, eat pizza and do nothing.”
8. She had her biggest year yet in 2004, releasing her first solo album, acting alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s "The Aviator" and launching her clothing line, L.A.M.B.
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9. Gwen went into fashion in case her singing career fizzled. “I was preparing myself, knowing that the music thing was going to end,” she says.
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10. Following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, she donated $1 million to Save the Children’s emergency fund for the stricken country.
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