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"The Voice coach Blake Shelton has accused The X Factor USA&amp;#039;s Simon Cowell of &amp;quot;mouthing off&amp;quot; about the shows&amp;#039; ratings battle. Cowell has publicly complained in recent weeks about NBC scheduling a third night in The Voice&amp;#039;s season premiere week against his own X Factor&amp;#039;s season opener tonight (September 12).   &amp;quot;I am pissed off about it, because I think there&amp;#039;s a kind of gentleman&amp;#039;s agreement,&amp;quot; Cowell said last week. &amp;quot;But we have to rely that the viewers will make the right selection.&amp;quot; The Voice&amp;#039;s Shelton has now slammed Cowell&amp;#039;s complaints in a new interview with Access Hollywood. &amp;quot;Every time I turn around the guy is mouthing off\u2026 Don&amp;#039;t y&amp;#039;all wish you had time to sit around and bitch and moan like that guy does?&amp;quot; the country singer declared. He went on to say: &amp;quot;Every time I turn around, he&amp;#039;s mouthing off about our show. It&amp;#039;s like, &amp;#039;Do your own show! Come on! Put something together there and do your thing&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll just do ours and we won&amp;#039;t mouth off about you. I wish I had that much time. The guy must just have more free time than he knows what to do with.&amp;quot;   Shelton further suggested that there&amp;#039;s no reason why both The Voice and The X Factor can&amp;#039;t be successful this fall. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s room for all these shows,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s what frustrates me when I hear the bickering. I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;#039;We&amp;#039;re all doing pretty good. High five!&amp;#039;  &amp;quot;But I think the thing that the other shows probably took notice of was - the four of us on The Voice - we&amp;#039;re not judges.&amp;quot; X Factor judge Britney Spears has also weighed in on the ratings battle by joking that she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;elated&amp;quot; to be competing with The Voice coach Christina Aguilera in primetime. &amp;quot;I do find they&amp;#039;re both really interesting shows,&amp;quot; Spears commented. &amp;quot;I mean, they captivate on the same things. In all honestly, I do feel like they&amp;#039;re two totally different shows, you can&amp;#039;t really compare the two.&amp;quot; The Voice continues its three-night premiere tonight (September 12) at 8/7c on NBC. The X Factor USA kicks off its second season at 8/7c tonight on Fox. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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