James Corden swears he ‘wasn’t fired’ from ‘The Late Late Show’
nypost.comlate to correct the misconception. James Corden, 45, who hosted CBS’ “The Late Late Show” for an eight-year run from 2015 to 2023, appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to talk about his new life back in London. “No one believes that I wasn’t fired.
I’ll be in a pub or something and people will be like, ‘Oh yeah …’ They’ll be like, ‘So why’d you come back?’” he said, referring to moving from Los Angeles back across the pond to the UK.“And I’ll be like, ‘Oh, ’cause Max has finished sixth grade and we really wanted him to have a relationship with his grandparents,’” he said. “And people will honestly be like, ‘You don’t have to give me that bulls–t.
It’s fine, mate. If you got fired, you got fired.’”Corden moved his family — wife Julia Carey and kids Max, 13, Carey, 9, and Charlotte, 6 — from Los Angeles back to London after the end of his CBS show in April 2023.
At the time that he announced his departure in April 2022, Corden said, “It’s been it’s a really hard decision to leave because I’m so immensely proud of the show … I always thought I’d do it for five years and then leave and then I stayed on.
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