James Corden

James Corden

The host of CBS's Late Late Show from 2015 to 2023, James Corden was born in Buckinghamshire and, as a child, studied drama at the Jackie Palmer Stage School.

His break came in the ITV comedy-drama Fat Friends, where he met Ruth Jones, with whom he would go on to created the BBC Three hit Gavin and Stacey. However, before that he would appear in Hollyoaks as Wayne and in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys, which opened in 2004. He played Timms in the London, Broadway, Sydney, Wellington and Hong Kong productions, and in the radio and film adaptations.

Gavin & Stacey, which started in 2007, made his name. He won best male newcomer nomination at that year's British Comedy Awards, and the show won best new TV comedy. On the show, he struck up a friendship with co-star Mat Horne. They have since hosted Big Brother's Big Mouth together, as well as various awards ceremonies, and a critically slammed sketch show

But then he reinvented himself as the host of Sky's sports panel show League Of Their Own, and co-creating the BBC Two comedy-thriller The Wrong Mans.

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More details emerge of James Corden and Ruth Jones's new project

Pair will play siblings in show called The Choir

James Corden and Ruth Jones’s new Apple TV show is to be called The Choir.

Hollywood website Deadline reports that the pair will be playing brother and sister Ben and Lisa in the series, which was first revealed last week.

The plot is said to revolve around Ben retiring to a sleepy English town after having spent several years away – an echo of Corden’s real experiences coming back to the UK after spending eight years in Los Angeles on the Late Late Show.

According to Deadline, ‘Ben is forced to return to a life he never wanted, a town he never liked and a family from which he’s estranged’.

Filming is expected to start on the eight-part series next year. Last week, The Sun reported that the Gavin & Stacey co-creators had signed an £8million contract for the deal.

Deadline says insiders ‘steered away’ from it being a multi-million pound deal for the pair.  However it is conceivable the quoted figure could be the full cost of making the series.  

The Sun last week said the show would feature ‘an all British cast’  and quoted an unnamed source as saying: ‘As you might expect, it is uplifting, gentle and very funny. They wanted to bring something full of heart and warmth back to screens.’

Apple TV+, which already airs Corden’s Carpool Karaoke, is said to have won a bidding war for the series.

Corden is currently in New York starring in the Broadway play Art alongside Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale, while Jones recently filmed the Harlan Coben drama Run Away for Netflix, alongside a cast that also included Minnie Driver, James Nesbitt,  Ingrid Oliver, Amy Gledhill and Tracy-Ann Oberman.

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Published: 8 Sep 2025

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