He got it for his radio work... he's a radio "personality" here in L.A. and apparently he's got quite a fan base.

Beth asked this last week too.
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Like I said before, literally all you need is a fan club or some kind of following... you just need $15,000 and a few signatures. Usually, there's like a "sponsor" of some sort who picks up the check for the 15 grand... like either a production company, or something like that. If you have a big enough fan club, they can raise the 15 grand and pay it, or whatever. So you don't really have to "deserve" it, necessarily. I mean I'm sure you have to have some kind of following-- I don't think they let any average Joe with $15,000 get a star; but pretty much if you have enough fans (which Ryan does, especially around here), you're set.

Sure, any celebrity can afford to pay the 15 grand themselves, but usually they try to hide their vanity and "graciously" accept the offer from their production company (like Universal) or whatever other type of sponsor.

Although most of the time (from what I hear) the stars ask the company for it, and the company's supposed to make it sound like their own idea. Or another common thing is that a company will actually think of it on their own, but they'll do it right around the time a new movie or album is coming out, and it fits right in with publicity for the movie. You'll notice this happens a lot more often when the upcoming movie is gonna SUCK big time.

Gotta love Hollywood. :rolleyes: Oh, and when the star ceremony is going on, one must avoid Hollywood Blvd like the plague, I swear. I think the only other time there's THAT much traffic on that street is during the Oscars. You can be literally parked in the middle of the street in traffic for at least 10 minutes in one place, and it'll take you like 5 or 6 green lights to get past one block.