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Arwa Mahdawi

James Corden may be the ‘male Ellen’ but that means his career will likely be fine

James Corden told the New York Times he hadn’t ‘done anything wrong, on any level’.
James Corden told the New York Times he hadn’t ‘done anything wrong, on any level’. Photograph: Beresford Hodge/PA

James Corden: the 2022 Ellen

It has not been a terribly good week to be British, has it? It’s been pandemonium in the country itself and one of Britain’s more famous exports has been making a disgrace of himself. I speak of James Corden, of course. The comedian, an English immigrant in LA, has been making headlines for some egg-ceptionally mean-spirited behaviour. He turned up to eat at Balthazar, a fancy New York restaurant, and was nasty to the waitstaff, according to Balthazar’s owner, Keith McNally. In one incident he was extremely mean after he found a hair in his meal. In another he became apocalyptic because the staff got his wife’s order of an egg yolk omelet wrong. There was a little bit of egg white in it apparently, and we can’t be having that can we?

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