James Corden suggests he may quit US talk show when his contract runs out because he is ‘homesick’

Actor has hosted his own talk show on CBS since 2015

Actor and presenter James Corden has implied that he may quit his late night US talk show and return to the UK when his contract expires.

The Gavin & Stacey star has hosted The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS since 2015.

Speaking to The Sun, Corden said that he was “homesick”, after moving with his family to the US, and implied that he was considering leaving the show in two years’ time.

“I have a couple of years to go on this contract,” he said. “Ending the show will always be a bigger family decision than a professional one.

“It will be about people at home who we miss very, very much, who we are homesick for. I also feel like my wife and I have three young children, and they are three young grandchildren that we’ve taken away from people.”

Corden shares three children with his wife of eight years, Julia Carey. They are aged nine, six and three.  

He added: “This probably feels particularly magnified now during the pandemic, but I have an overwhelming feeling that our family has walked to the beat of my drum for a very long time.”

Earlier this year, Corden publicly denied rumours that he was being lined up to replace Ellen DeGeneres as the host of her daytime talk series The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

“Genuinely, I have no idea where that story came from, I think someone started a rumour somewhere and someone jumped on it,” he said. “There’s absolutely no truth to that story at all, zero.”