Kylie's New "Voice" Era Begins

Kylie shared the photo below via instagram yesterday with the caption:
"First day at school.....I mean, work! @BBCTheVoiceUK"

The new season of The Voice UK, which sees Kylie replacing coach Jessie J, kicked off Monday evening with a night out for Kylie and fellow judges Will.i.am and Tom Jones, as well as Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson (taking over from The Script's Danny O'Donoghue), at the Smoke bar and restaurant in Manchester's Malmaison hotel.

The new series of the show begins a round of blind auditions - which will run through Sunday - in Salford, today.

*****UPDATE*****
First Report from inside the taping by
James Swinburne:

Just got out!
Kylie looked amazing - young and gorgeous. Hair down, red nails.
She had a figure hugging (tight!) little black number on.
She was calm, cool - made some funny jokes. A little inarticulate at times but no one would notice really.
Fans got on stage and danced between filming and she loved it, dancing along and giving hugs!
We called her over and she came and gave us big hugs when we told her we'd met at her concert in 2008. I told her we were engaged and she asked when we were getting married.
Very warm and lovely!
First day so I'm sure she'll get better, but she knows how to move, smile and pose. She danced with Ricky Wilson a bit too.
Overall thing I'm taking away from today?
Kylie looked HOT.
She said album definitely out next year now.

(Thanks James!)

First Pic of Kylie in the Red Spinning Chair...!