Harry Styles, James Corden and Will Ferrell.Photo: JMEnternational/Getty Images; David Livingston/WireImage; Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images
The Late Late Show with James Cordenis going out with a bang!
SingerHarry Stylesand actorWill Ferrellwill join hostJames Cordenfor the talk show’s final episode on April 27, it was announced on Monday.
Both have a long history with the CBS talk show. Ferrell, 55, was one of Corden’s first guests when the British comedian and Tony winner took over hosting the show in 2015.
Styles, meanwhile, has appeared on the show numerous times and has filled in as a guest host for Corden on a number of occasions. The 29-year-old even has a tattoo of the show’s logo on his arm, which he got in December 2015 when he lost a game of “Tattoo Roulette.”
Confirmation of Styles' appearance on the finale comes after the show was forced toshut down rumorsthatOne Directionwere reuniting for Corden’s final episode.
The band’s fans were bursting with joy last week when a rumor about a reunion started spreading on social media. But addressing the speculation on Twitter on Thursday, the showtweeted, “Nobody loves the boys more than us … but this story just isn’t true.”
“What is true is we’ve got an absolutely brilliant 2 hour finale planned to celebrate 8 years of #LateLateShow at 10pm on April 27th,” the post continued alongside a screenshot of a news article with “false alarm” written over it.
One band who will be making an appearance on one of Corden’s final shows is South Korean girl groupBlackpink.
Corden on Monday teased on social media that theSouth Korean girl group would be joining him for an upcoming “Carpool Karaoke” segment.Sean “Diddy” Combswill also appear in his own “Carpool Karaoke” segment before the acclaimed late night series wraps, according to a release.
“Crosswalk the Musical” will return too, for its final segment.
That will be seen during theThe Last Last Late Late Show with James Corden Carpool Karaoke Special, which will air in primetime on April 27 ahead of the final broadcast of the award-winning late night show.
Corden announced he wasexiting the comedy talk showin April 2022.
In a statement toDeadline, who was the first to report his exit news, Corden said choosing to leave the show — known for many of its viral segments, including Carpool Karaoke, Spill Your Guts and Crosswalk Musical — after eight-and-a-half years was “a really hard decision.”
“I’m thrilled to be extending [for a year],” Corden continued. “I always thought I’d do it for five years and then leave and then I stayed on. I’ve really been thinking about it for a long time, thinking whether there might be one more adventure.”
“My intention is to try and go out in exactly the same way we came in, which is just going out with a bang,” he concluded.
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“I’m worried about being too emotional. I’m worried about crying too much,” he said at the Los Angeles premiere of his Prime Video showMammals. “But at the same time, I just got to take a breath and know that there’s a lot to do between now and then.”
The Late Late Show with James Cordenairs weeknights (at 12:37 p.m.) on CBS.
source: people.com
