Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeA few weeks ago, James Corden, his band and his writers were having a laugh about a new hotel chain that superstar music producer Pharrell Williams was opening.
That led them down the rabbit hole of discussing what celebrity they’d actually like to see open a hotel. Drummer Guillermo Brown suggested Oprah Winfrey, and even had a name for it: the O-Tel.
Suddenly, they were egging Corden on to pitch it to Winfrey. On a whim, the host found her number on his phone — and he called it.
By the way, this all happened on camera. “Everything you saw is completely real,” Corden tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “There was not one second of it that was planned in any way.
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