James Corden: ‘No One Believes That I Wasn’t Fired’

Former Late Late Show host James Corden announced his departure from the CBS talk show a year ago, and signed off with an appeal to Americans to put aside what divides them and come together.

When it comes to the English, however, Corden told Jimmy Kimmel this week that the UK is united in being convinced that he was fired from the show instead of leaving of his own volition.

“People are very nice. But no one believes that I wasn’t fired,” Corden, who was there to promote his new podcast This Life of Mine, told Kimmel. “People will honestly be like, ‘You don’t have to give me that bullshit. It’s fine, mate. If you got fired, you got fired.’ Because nobody thinks you would ever leave what is—let’s be honest—a cushy existence.”

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