Seal explodes!

Backstage bust-ups, diva behaviour and a public meltdown from coach Seal are causing a stir for The Voice family.

There’s a crisis brewing behind the scenes of hit talent series The Voice. On the eve of the show’s live episodes, last year’s winning coach Seal is struggling with the turmoil in his private life, leading to an extraordinary on-stage outburst about his estranged wife Heidi Klum, the mother of his four children.

The Voice insiders say Seal’s explosion is a result of not only growing tensions with his ex-wife, but a new feud with mentor Connie Mitchell and the breakdown of his romance with Delta Goodrem. The addition of Ricky Martin, plus a reinvented Delta, and stressed-out contestants who know how high the stakes are after last year’s juggernaut, have made thisseason more emotionally charged than anyone could have predicted.

And it all reached boiling point last week in a shock outburst from Seal, 50, at his concert at Sydney casino The Star. After one crowd member yelled to Seal that he was “wonderful”, Seal responded by asking: “Do you really believe that though? You do? Do I believe him? I kind of do, but my ex-wife doesn’t… she doesn’t think I’m wonderful at all,” he bizarrely told the crowd before adding, “My kids do.”

Seal’s public rant comes days after the woman he was married to for seven years appeared to take her relationship with the couple’s former bodyguard Martin Kristen to the next level. The loved-up duo were spotted wearing matching rings on their right hands, which in Heidi’s native Germany is the hand on which engagement and wedding bands are worn. She has remained coy about the significance of the ring, saying only, “It is a gift from my friend.”