HE is the highest-paid British TV presenter. He has earned an OBE, won 11 Emmys and is friends with everyone from David Beckham to Michelle Obama.
Not bad for a self-confessed “tubby lad” from Buckinghamshire. Now, seven years after setting up home in sunny California, James Corden is heading back to Blighty — starting with a week-long return of his cult The Late Late Show.
He says: “The easiest thing in the world would have been to just stay, take the money and continue on, but I sort of felt like ‘I wonder if there’s something else out there?’ “I just couldn’t shake the feeling that perhaps it was time.
I want to spend more time with my family and I never wanted the show to feel like it had outstayed its welcome. “We don’t really know where we are going to be or what we are going to do — that’s stuff we’ve got to figure out.
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