James Corden leaving show for personal, professional reasons
James Corden detailed his reasons for leaving CBS' "The Late Late Show" in an "Extra" interview that aired Monday. Credit: Getty Images / Dia Dipasupil
Talk-show host James Corden, who announced in April he was ending his tenure on CBS' "The Late Late Show" next year, said the decision was both personal and professional.
"Primarily it was just a feeling of we've probably done all we wanted to do," Corden, 43, told the entertainment-news program "Extra" in an interview broadcast Monday. He said the show, which Corden took over in 2015 after Craig Ferguson's decadelong run, is "all I ever wanted it to be. I just didn't want to ever get to a point where I was bored doing it."
The English comedian added, "By the time we finish, I'll have done pretty much, like 1,400 episodes. That's a lot. And I know that in America, these jobs are positions that people take for 10, 15, 20, 25 years. It was never, ever going to be that for me."
"The Late Late Show" was nominated four times for the Emmy Award for outstanding variety talk series. Its "Carpool Karaoke" segment, in which celebrities including then-first lady Michelle Obama ride with Corden and sing along to popular songs, became a hit that spun off into prime-time specials.
Corden said his decision also stemmed from family, including wife Julia Carey Corden and their children: son Max, 11, and daughters Carey, 7, and Charlotte, 4. "My kids are getting older, their grandparents are getting older, and it perhaps just felt like the right time for us as a family to be freer in our decisions."
