{"id":3752,"date":"2025-06-15T07:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T07:51:16","slug":"youve-always-been-the-love-i-wished-for-gwen-stefanis-sweet-tribute-to-blake-shelton-melts-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=3752","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou\u2019ve Always Been the Love I Wished For!\u201d \u2014 Gwen Stefani\u2019s Sweet Tribute to Blake Shelton Melts Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blake Shelton Comes In for Roasting and Smooching at Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony<\/p>\n

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At his Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony Friday,\u00a0Blake Shelton\u00a0was both celebrated and shamed by three guest speakers that have loomed large in his life over the last dozen years, as \u201cThe Voice\u201d host\u00a0Carson Daly\u00a0thoroughly roasted him, wife\u00a0Gwen Stefani\u00a0waxed lovestruck (still), and former fellow judge\u00a0Adam Levine\u00a0split the difference.<\/p>\n

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Shelton did not refrain from comic comments of his own. He mentioned that, as an aspiring singer from Oklahoma, getting a star on the Walk of Fame had not been primary among his career goals. \u201cIt was just never on my radar,\u201d he told the assembled crowd on Hollywood Blvd. \u201cI had a dream of being a country singer and hearing myself on the radio one day, and I never, ever thought that that path would lead me here. \u2026 So, like, this is shocking to me that this even happened. \u2026 I\u2019ve been telling people for the last few weeks that I\u2019m getting a Hollywood Square. \u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019ve Always Been the Love I Wished For!\u201d \u2014 Gwen Stefani\u2019s Sweet Tribute to Blake Shelton Melts Hearts<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n

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Blake Shelton Comes In for Roasting and Smooching at Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony<\/p>\n

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At his Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony Friday,\u00a0Blake Shelton\u00a0was both celebrated and shamed by three guest speakers that have loomed large in his life over the last dozen years, as \u201cThe Voice\u201d host\u00a0Carson Daly\u00a0thoroughly roasted him, wife\u00a0Gwen Stefani\u00a0waxed lovestruck (still), and former fellow judge\u00a0Adam Levine\u00a0split the difference.<\/p>\n

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Shelton did not refrain from comic comments of his own. He mentioned that, as an aspiring singer from Oklahoma, getting a star on the Walk of Fame had not been primary among his career goals. \u201cIt was just never on my radar,\u201d he told the assembled crowd on Hollywood Blvd. \u201cI had a dream of being a country singer and hearing myself on the radio one day, and I never, ever thought that that path would lead me here. \u2026 So, like, this is shocking to me that this even happened. \u2026 I\u2019ve been telling people for the last few weeks that I\u2019m getting a Hollywood Square. \u201d<\/p>\n

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The singer especially thanked his manager. \u201cIf there\u2019s one person that I probably need to thank more than anybody from a career standpoint, Narvel Blackstock literally changed my life. He got me to take my cowboy hat off. I mean, my God \u2026 and cut my mullet. You\u2019re an asshole for that, actually, because that\u2019s cool again. Now, I can\u2019t go back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Levine, the frontman for Maroon 5, started his speech on a note of rivalry.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlake spoke at my star induction ceremony six years ago,\u201d the singer said. \u201cSix years ago, which is how many years ago I got it, which just means I got it six years before you.\u201d He noted that Shelton was named People\u2019s Sexiest Man Alive in 2017, whereas Levine claimed the title in 2013, \u201cfour years before he got it. I did everything that you did before you did it. You know, I was really conflicted about what I was gonna say when I got up here, and whether I was gonna make jokes and be mean and be a dick\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s clear which path you chose,\u201d interjected Shelton.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026and then right before I came up, I said, you know, I\u2019m gonna go sincere. I\u2019m gonna be nice because I love you. And I know I just made a bunch of mean jokes, by the way, so I kind of ruined that philosophy. But honest to God, and it makes me sick to my stomach to say this to you. I\u2019m really proud of you, man, and I love you. \u2026 There\u2019s no joke coming. There\u2019s no joke. It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve seen you, and I love you and I\u2019m proud of you. And even though you\u2019re an idiot in so many ways, I just love you and I\u2019m happy to be here and it\u2019s an honor to be here for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Levine added, \u201cAnd one more thing I wanna say before I go, and I know Blake agrees: It\u2019s time to get Carson Daly a star on this thing. Carson, he\u2019s been on our TV for what, 30,000 years, and we\u2019ve taken him for granted on an almost daily basis. Let\u2019s go \u2014 Carson Daly, next year or next whatever, star on the walk of fame.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daly, meanwhile, was unrestrained in exercising his more irreverent side, taking his cues from the Friars Club.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been so much toasting, and so little roasting. We\u2019ll see if we can change that,\u201d began Daly. \u201cI\u2019m here to present my good friend Blake Shelton with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Which is strange because Blake does not live here or even like it here. After today, I assure you Blake will never see the star again. In fact, as soon as he leaves, you could probably dig it up and re-gift it to Blake Lively.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBlake\u2019s not a Hollywood guy. Once when we were shooting \u2018The Voice,\u2019 he was so homesick, I had to take him to a Bass Pro shop in Riverside just to get him to stop crying. I left him there for two weeks and he was happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After joining \u201cThe Voice\u201d for its first season in 2010, said Daly, \u201cSomehow Blake would go on to become the biggest \u2014 and, weirdly, only \u2014 breakout star from \u2018The Voice.\u2019 \u2026 He would meet a co-star he would go on to marry: Cee-Lo Green\u2026 Blake dating Gwen was hard for many of us to believe. She fronted a ska band in Orange County. Blake wrote a song called \u2018Hillbilly Bone.\u2019 Gwen was unable to resist this hillbilly\u2019s bone, and the rest is history. We\u2019re not done.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had the honor of marrying Blake and Gwen a private ceremony on their beautiful ranch in Oklahoma. It was a beautiful sight. Gwen was decked out in Vera Wang. Blake was wearing jeans and a rifle. It gave new meaning to the term shotgun wedding\u2026 Some fun facts about Blake: he has 28 No. 1 hits. Seventeen of them are about a dead dog. Blake is the son of a used car dealer and owner of a beauty salon, which explains why he loves cars and wearing makeup. In 2017, Blake was named People Magazine\u2019s Sexiest Men Alive, and in 2018 he was named Ebony Magazine\u2019s Whitest Man Alive, the very next year. Not only is Blake a TV star, he\u2019s a movie star. He played the Voice of Earl in the movie \u2018Angry Birds,\u2019 for which he was nominated for nine Academy Awards\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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Stefani turned the roast dial to zero, for her part.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me try to paint the picture of the little boy, Blake Shelton, who had a simple kind of life and a big dream growing up in a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny town in Oklahoma,\u201d she said. \u201cThe backdrop of his life was nature. He was in the woods all day long, not wanting to come home until it was dark. Knowing every name of every tree, every species of animal, with a soul connection to country music and what country music represents right there. There is no one more authentic than this guy. He lives and he breathes country music. He is a country music jukebox, and it is his DNA. He was born to do this, and hasn\u2019t done anything because he wanted to be a star. He has just always been a star, from barely graduating from high school to roofing houses and then moving to Nashville by himself at 17 years old to chase the only thing he ever wanted to do in his life, be a country singer.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith 28 No. 1 singles and 23 seasons on \u2018The Voice,\u2019\u201d she continued, \u201cBlake has always stayed true to himself. There is nobody like him. \u2026 He\u2019s humble, he\u2019s genuine, and trust me, wherever we go, everybody feels like they know Blake Shelton.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelton allowed himself a moment of sentiment at the end, expressing his love for Stefani and remembering his late brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kinda stopped checking things off my list of great accomplishments in my life when I married Gwen, and so this is just icing on the cake,\u201d he said.\u201dThat\u2019s the greatest thing that\u2019s happened along this, this journey.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy family is all here, by the way, from Oklahoma, and I was talking to my mom this morning and I was just thinking about what I\u2019m gonna say when I get up here. And she said to me, \u2018I wish Richie could have been here to see this and everything that you\u2019ve done.\u2019 And I feel like that\u2019s probably the best way to wrap this up. Richie was my brother that I lost many, many years ago. So I dedicate my star on this Walk of Fame to my brother Richie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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