The actor and comedian James Corden has struck a deal with SiriusXM to create a new audio interview series, after leaving CBS’s The Late Late Show in April to spend more time with his wife and children.
The podcast will “seek to tell the untold stories of some of the most well-known public figures”, a spokesperson said.
Corden, who starred in the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey as well as Hollywood movies including Peter Rabbit and Cats, shot to fame in the US after he became a late night TV show host who interviewed other celebrities in a car, while encouraging them to belt out songs. The format became known as Carpool Karaoke.
His new audio show, This Life of Mine, will only be available for subscribers to SiriusXM, an American provider of satellite and online radio services.
Expected to premiere early next year, it will feature in-depth discussions with the world’s biggest stars as they discuss “the people, places, moments and memories that made them who they are today”.
Rather like Desert Island Discs, the interviewees will be expected to converse with Corden about their favourite music, films and books, as well offering up advice and “untold stories” about their lives.
“I am thrilled to be joining SiriusXM,” Corden said in a statement. “It’s a dream to have a space to engage in deep conversations with the people whose work and talent I greatly admire.”
Corden interviewed Adele in the last Carpool Karaoke on The Late Late Show in April. Her original Carpool Karaoke interview with Corden in 2016 became a viral hit, amassing more than 260m views.
In 2022, Corden admitted he had been “ungracious” during an incident at a New York restaurant that led to him being banned from the venue.
The restaurant owner, Keith McNally, said Corden had been “extremely nasty” to staff on two separate occasions while dining at his restaurant, Balthazar.
Corden said at the time: “I made a rude, rude comment. And it was wrong.”
Later that year, he told the Guardian he was planning to leave The Late Late Show. “The only thing I knew when I took the job was that I wasn’t going to be sat there 20 years later saying: ‘Stick around everybody, we’ll be right back.’ If I’m honest I thought it’d be cancelled within six months.”
