Ellen K Honored With Hollywood Walk of Fame Star
Ellen K with Ryan Seacrest
Don Barrett @ LARadio.com (May 11, 2012)
Ellen K, co-host of the top-rated KIIS/fm morning show On Air with Ryan Seacrest and the Premiere Networks globally syndicated program of the same name, was honored with the 2,471st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the Radio category yesterday morning. At the ceremony in front of the W Hollywood Hotel, featured guest speakers Ryan Seacrest, Kris Jenner of the E! Network hit show Keeping Up With The Kardashians and actress Miranda Cosgrove. (Ellen with her 10-year-old son, Calvin)
Ellen K’s career in radio began at Purdue University when she landed an internship at a local radio station. From the moment she began talking to listeners on the air about their lives, she knew she was hooked. Over the next decade, radio promotions came fast for Ellen as she was recruited from her small Indiana surroundings to San Diego, then San Francisco, and finally Los Angeles, where she became the morning co-host at KIIS/fm with the legendary Rick Dees.
Ellen co-hosted with Wayne Brady on his Emmy Award-winning talk show, while holding down a correspondent role for Extra and remaining on air daily with Rick Dees at KIIS, a show that won her dozens of Marconi and Billboard Radio Awards. (Ellen with Ryan Seacrest)
Today, Ellen continues her daily tv work as the host of her own segment “Ellen K’s Inside Hollywood” on the KTLA evening news. She has been the announcer for the Grammys on CBS, the SAG Awards on TNT and TBS, and A Home for the Holidays on CBS. She’s also made cameo appearances on Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Days of Our Lives, and contributes to the Emmy nominated “Oscar Red Carpet Live” special on KTLA.
Ellen K with her son, Calvin
