‘Gavin And Stacey’s’ Mathew Horne defends James Corden amid feud rumours: “I am protective of him”

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Gavin And Stacey finale on Christmas Day, Mathew Horne has defended his co-star James Corden and addressed rumours of a feud between the pair.Horne plays the titular Gavin on the hit BBC sitcom, while Corden, who plays Gavin’s best friend Smithy, co-created the show alongside Ruth Jones, who plays Nessa, the mother of Smithy’s child.Horne and Corden also worked on their own sketch show together, and co-starred in the 2009 comedy horror movie Lesbian Vampire Killers too.

However, the same year, claims began to surface online that the two had fallen out.However, Horne has told The Times in a new interview: “the notion of us falling out wasn’t true” – he described it as a false narrative that “silenced” him when he wanted to talk publicly about Corden.

And a few years later, Corden became popular in the US, hosting The Late Late Show and going viral for his encounters with some of the world’s biggest celebrities on the ‘Carpool Karaoke’ segment.Horne explained, “I couldn’t really do anything about it.

Because James then went off to the States, that was the narrative and however much I said that we didn’t fall out, no amount of protesting would have convinced people that it didn’t happen.”He called it a “hectic time,” adding: “I really don’t want any more hectic-ness and chaos in my life.