HE is the highest-paid British TV presenter.
He has earned an OBE, gained 11 Emmys and is buddies with all and sundry from David Beckham to Michelle Obama. Not bad for a self-confessed “tubby lad” from Buckinghamshire.
Now, seven years after putting up home in sunny California, James Corden is heading lower back to Blighty — beginning with a week-long return of his cult The Late Late Show.
He says: “The best thing in the world would have been to simply stay, take the money and continue on, however I kind of felt like ‘I surprise if there’s some thing else out there?’
“I simply couldn’t shake the feeling that possibly it used to be time. I prefer to spend extra time with my family and I never desired the exhibit to feel like it had outstayed its welcome.
“We don’t definitely know where we are going to be or what we are going to do — that’s stuff we’ve got to figure out. But it will be excellent to have some more flexibility, and it’s exciting.
“There are some matters that I would like to write and I hope there will be different matters for me to do. But we still have a yr left in the US and I choose to make it the best one yet.”
Since launching the widely hyped CBS exhibit in 2015, the structure has been watched in extra than 180 countries, while the big name has created the three most watched clips in the records of late-night American TV.
In 2018 his trademark section Carpool Karaoke with Paul McCartney used to be the most watched YouTube clip of the year — beating Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding.
On the subject matter of which James, famously, has end up pals with the Duke of Sussex and his actress wife.
In something of a televisual coup, ultimate February Harry regarded atop a double decker bus to be interviewed by the 43-year-old comic.
In the segment, Harry rapped to the Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air theme tune, FaceTimed Meghan and swore whilst being pushed around Los Angeles, ingesting cups of tea.
Within minutes, clips of their relaxed chat had long past viral.
James and his wife, Julia Carey, who have three kids, Carey, Max and Charlotte, live just 90 minutes from Harry and Meghan’s sprawling Montecito mansion.
So do the quartet socialise? Has he been spherical to the couple’s £11million home?
“I have”, he says. “It used to be more a sort of play date scenario [with the kids]. Then we went out for dinner after, it was lovely. Obviously I’m no longer telling you any more. Obviously.”
So is it actual he obtained them a toaster for their Windsor nuptials?
“No”.
Ploughing on, then, what did he get them? “I definitely don’t remember,” he says via slightly gritted teeth. “I think Jules took care of that.
“Afterwards though, [at the nighttime reception], I did make a joke, dressed up as Henry VIII, and told everyone: ‘George Clooney’s here, so congratulations on your new Nespresso machine, guys!’ ”
Mildly warming to his subject, he continues: “Look, I’m a big fan of both of them. Obviously I recognize Harry higher than I recognize Meghan however I assume it’s in reality hard to judge, or be judgmental.
“People process matters and deal with matters in extraordinary ways and that’s OK, and it’s all right to assume something you assume about somebody.
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