Fans of the ITV quiz show The Chase fans were stopped in their tracks when they thought host Bradley Walsh "threw shade" at James Corden. Viewers responded with comical GIFs and questioning tweets after Bradley made a comment following a film question posed to one contestant.
Simon from Wantage, Kim originally from Leeds, Dorett from London and Jack from Manchester joined forces in the hope of winning thousands of pounds as they went up against Chaser Anne Hegerty. Contestants play against a professional quizzer, known as the 'chaser', who attempts to prevent them from winning a cash prize.
The question posed to Jack was: "The original staging of which West End hit featured Dominic Cooper, James Corden and Russell Tovey?" And the options were War Horse, The History Boys and Billy Elliot and Jack correctly answered The History Boys.
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Bradley responded: "Simon Cooper, Russell Tovey, lovely lads", which was met with some laughter from the studio audience. And eyebrows were raised as viewers took to Twitter to discuss the remark. @werdna67 tweeted: "Bradley 'Dominic Cooper, Russell Tovey - lovely lads.' Left out James Corden."
@bootgirl45 said: "Loving the shade thrown towards James Corden from Bradley. #thechase #hilarious." And @MissLionHeart said: "Bradley throwing shade at James Corden like..."
@DavidIsTheDavid wrote: "Great slap there for James Corden by Bradley. Bradley mentions two out of three actors named in a question and calls them lovely, leaving out Corden, the third named!!"
@MissLionHeart pointed out: "Notice how Bradley called Dominic Cooper and Russell Tovey 'lovely lads'?" And @bugsy2301 asked: "Bradley shading James Corden?"
In November Gavin and Stacey writer and actor James responded to accusations that he had 'copied' a joke by comedian Ricky Gervais while hosting his American talk show The Late Late Show With James Corden.
James joked about the Elon Musk Twitter takeover, saying: ""When you see Elon Musk talk about Twitter, he does this thing where he goes 'It's the town square.' But it isn't.
"Because if someone puts up a poster in a town square that says ‘guitar lessons available’, you don’t get people in the town going, ‘I don’t want to play the guitar! I want to play the piano, you piece of s**t!’” He added: "“Well that sign wasn’t for you, it was for someone else. You don’t have to get mad about all of it!”
In the joke from Ricky’s stand-up routine, he said: “They choose to read my tweet, and then take that personally. That's like going into a town square, seeing a big notice board and there's a notice - guitar lessons - and you go, 'but I don’t want f***ing guitar lessons’. Fine, it's not for you then, just walk away. Don't worry about it!”
@Drew_1981 asked Ricky: "Didn't deliver it like you though. I assume he asked to use that joke?" And The Office and Afterlife star replied "no" and added: "I reckon one of the writers 'came up with it' for him. I doubt he would knowingly just copy such a famous stand up routine word for word like that."
James responded to the accusations, tweeting: “Inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him. It’s brilliant, because it’s a Ricky Gervais joke. You can watch all Ricky’s excellent specials on Netflix. J x”.
This was the second time in a matter of weeks James found himself embroiled in controversy, having been barred from a New York restaurant after being embroiled in a saga involving an omelette order. James later acknowledged he had been “ungracious” during the incident but said it was “never my intention” to upset staff.
He said: “I didn’t call anyone names or use derogatory language, I’ve been walking around thinking that I haven’t done anything wrong. But the truth is I have made a rude, rude comment. And it was wrong. It was an unnecessary comment, it was ungracious to the server.”
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