TGIF FEATURE: Amy Vachal describes her relationship with Adam Levine

AMY VACHAL was interviewed after being eliminated prior to the final in The Voice singing competition and touched upon the rumored close relationship with Adam Levine.

Even after leaving the show, rumors persisted in the tabloids about a possible intimate relationship between the Filipino/American singer and her mentor/coach Adam Levine, lead singer for Maroon 5.

The alleged "flirting" between the two supposedly was affecting Levine's already rocky marriage with super model Behati Prinsloo, often seen in Victoria Secret attire.

In the video interview, Vachal, who never addresses the rumors, made it clear that the relationship between her and Levine was not a romantic one. She saw him "like a brother." 

In other interviews, she plans on doing an album in the style that fans have become familiar  - jazzy, sweet, sultry, alternative, indie - that's difficult to categorize. That difficulty in categorizing her music may have been her undoing in the popularity contest The Voice, but it will please her growing fan base.

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The Voice: Amy Vachal saved after losing "Knockout" round

FILIPINO/AMERICAN singer Amy Vachal got a second chance after losing Monday during the Knockout Round of the popular reality singing competition, The Voice.

In the Knockout Round, each singer chooses a song to perform and compete head-to-head with another singer on the same team.

Vachal chose to sing Etta Jame's standard, "Sunday Kind Of Love." Her competition was Madi Davis, who chose to sing Joni Mitchell,s "A Case of You." Their coach and mentor Pharrell had a difficult choice but picked Davis over Vachal.

Almost immediately, coaches Maroon lead singer Adam Levine and country singer Blake Shelton pressed their buttons to "steal" Vachal for their teams. New Jersey-raised Vachal chose to join Levine's team.

Filipino American Amy Vachal will need your help next week.

"That moment was a blur for me," Vachal said afterwards. "You have two of the handsomest, most charming people on the planet saying the sweetest things you've ever been told in your life. And I was just a little over-stimulated." 

"You can't go wrong between the two of them. Ultimately, at the end of the day, I chose Adam because I just felt like we would see more eye to eye on the road ahead."

Next week, both Davis and Vachal will compete in the Playoffs round. During the Playoff round, the artists are paired against a teammate once more, but this time, they select their own songs to perform individually, while their direct competitor watches and waits. They are vying for their coach's confidence and decision to take them to the live shows. One superstar, universal advisor is on hand to work with all of the coaches and their teams as they prepare the artists for this challenge. But the coaches alone choose the winner, and the artist not selected is available to be stolen by another coach. Each coach has one steal available during the knockout rounds.

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UPDATED OCT. 31: correcting the description of the first Playoff Round. Live voting will not occur until the following round. 

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