Adam Levine wasn't squealing with laughter over a sure prank his former Voice co-judge Blake Shelton as soon as pulled on him.

The Maroon 5 singer has revealed that Shelton tricked him into forking over $5,000 to safe a not-so-little miniature pig for his companion, Behati Prinsloo.

"My now-wife, then-brand-new girlfriend, she stated she actually needed a teacup pig," Levine defined to Sean Evans on the newest episode of Hot Ones. "And I didn't know what that was, however in fact the primary particular person I’d ask [would be Shelton]… So I requested Blake. I'm like, 'What's a teacup pig?' He’s like, 'I'll get you a teacup pig. Yeah, give me 5 grand.'"

However he and Prinsloo simply weren't lower out to be pig mother and father and ended up protecting the screaming, squealing creature for less than about three weeks earlier than rehoming it.

"We needed to give it to a bit of woman on a farm," Levine stated. "We're like, 'Ship us photos! We are able to't wait to not be accountable for this animal anymore! Simply present us photos!'"

He continued, "She sends us an image like six months later and the pig is like 400 kilos. I'm like, 'Dude, what if this animal had grown to be this massive in my home?!'"

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He then confronted Shelton over the dimensions of the alleged "teacup pig," calling out the nation singer's massive fats mistake. "I'm identical to, 'Blake, bro, $5,000 for a pig that wasn't a micro pig?'" Levine recalled. "And he's like, 'You're an fool! There's no such factor as f—ing teacup pigs, you dumbass!' In order that was a fairly good prank that he performed on me."

To make issues worse, Levine revealed that Shelton refused to present him again the cash he paid to get the pig: "He's like, 'No!'"

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Shelton, who owns a ranch exterior of his music and tv endeavors, isn't flawed. Teacup pigs are literally simply potbellied pigs which might be both underfed or falsely marketed as tiny to trick potential homeowners into shopping for them, per PETA. The lovable critters don’t remain almost as small as one would count on given their nickname — they will develop as much as be nicely over 100 kilos.

Levine and Shelton starred on greater than 16 seasons of The Voice collectively earlier than the Maroon 5 vocalist's departure from the truth singing competitors sequence in 2019. Levine later returned as a decide for the present's twenty seventh season, which aired earlier this 12 months.

Shelton, then again, left The Voice after season 23 in 2023. The "Some Seaside" singer now serves as a producer on CBS' upcoming country music competition series, The Road, alongside Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan, which premieres this fall.

Watch Levine talk about Shelton's pig prank within the clip above.

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