. >> reporter: shawn, aka buddy hollywood, also claims his mom is supportive. >> why not wait tables? >> because i'm a sex addict i like to have sex, i love women, everything about them. >> you're not getting paid to appear in the show. >> no. >> but you're hoping that -- >> i'm going to win so i'm not worried about it. >> wow you really are confident. >> i told you. >> reporter: two lucky winners, one male one female will apparently split a $1 million prize. >> a million-dollar prize? >> correct. >> cash in a suitcase? >> it will be cash up front, as well as a three-year contract for the winners. >> how much actual cash? you won't get into specifics of actually what the prize is? >> right. >> are you paying the contestants? >> no. >> are you exploiting the contestants? >> no. >> how can you be so sure? you're making money off this, imassume imassume. >> absolutely. >> they are not unless they win. >> that's not true. >> is that not exploitation? >> that's completely incorrect and i'll clarify. as a contestant on the show you're not getting paid for your appearance in an episode on "t

buddy today. i want to talk about glu mobile. it's really interesting. you have gone from one hit too many hits. -- to many hits. >> we are starting a hollywood trend.elebrities are trying to work directly with people like ourselves to reach their fans and cut out studios, labels other traditional intermediaries. kim is the first of many. we've also sign katy perry. >> $23 million in sales -- $223 million in sales. talk to me about the game. my nine-year-old is limited to an hour of screen time everyday. she launched the kim kardashian game and 20 minutes later she is still playing it. talk to me about the gameplay and how you made that so good. >> pioneering experience. we worked on the engine in 2012. it was a great experience without kim involved. with her involved we brought in storytelling where kim is telling this narrative about what she is doing every day through social media, friends come her tv show. we are a new media that is helping facilitate transmedia experience for people like kim. gamers are finding the correct you started way before -- we knew the game was going to work. we did not know the phenomenon it would become. i had a sneak

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buddy. thank you. you're from ireland? >> i'm from ireland. yeah, northern ireland. yeah, belfast. well, actually a place called holywood, but six miles east of belfast. >> jimmy: hollywood back when it was called hollywood. but we changed that at some point. >> jimmy: you might as well. i mean, you're so close to being hollywood. welcome to dirsneyland. [ laughter ] oh, is roy's from there? >> yeah, yeah, same place. >> jimmy: oh, we love him. we love roy. he's awesome. oh, he's the best. did you ever stay in the real hollywood? well, not the real hollywood. originally, it was called hollywoodland, i guess. l.a. did you ever go to l.a.? >> yeah, yeah. i've been going there for quite a long time. i mean, i used to go 10 years ago with like a few of us would come over from my side of the world and like try to get work and fail miserably. >> jimmy: it's a tough business man, absolutely. >> tough, man. it is tough. >> jimmy: who were you friends with? who did you roll with? >> eddie redmayne and i shared a house together. it wasn't really a house. it was kind of a crummy like apartment. >> jimmy: that sounds more -- yeah. that's where you would stay. yeah. >> we were both l