I, For One, Am Thrilled About James Corden’s Downfall
And the Kardashians'.
Anyone who pays attention to celebrity gossip knew this was a long time coming.
Earlier this month, owner of New York City’s Balthazar restaurant, Keith McNally, had shared that he’d banned “tiny cretin of a man” James Corden from his restaurant. (The official term is “86-ing” someone, which is EXTREMELY rare, BTW!!!)
Here’s what he wrote:
Allegedly, after finding a hair in his food, Corden threatened to “write nasty Yelp reviews” unless his drinks were all comped. On another instance, a bit of egg white had made its way into his wife’s “egg yolk omelet”—whatever the F*CK that is—which, apparently, was completely unacceptable to Corden. He took it out on the wait staff.
As we all know—or, should know—by now, someone who treats wait staff poorly is showing their true colors. The scum of the earth, TBH.
Anyway: The story erupted on Twitter, and more and more stories of Corden’s abusive behavior began to resurface.
(The plane incident is my favorite. I can’t remember where I read it originally several months ago—either Reddit or Deux Moi—but it has not left my mind. The way he lets his wife not only deal with the baby herself the entire flight, but fully retrieve the baggage from the overhead compartment, too. Just… imagine being that much of a repellent, irredeemable piece of sh*t. To your own WIFE!)
The scandal officially enter PR-sh*tstorm levels, and of course, Corden had no choice but to reach out to McNally to apologize and “un-ban” him. Too little, too late, you tiny cretin of a man.
He then went on to downplay the incident in an interview with The New York Times, which only made himself look worse. If that were even possible.
“I haven’t done anything wrong, on any level. I was there. I get it. I feel so zen about the whole thing. Because I think it’s so silly. I just think it’s beneath all of us. It’s beneath you,” he told the interviewer.
McNally had a biting response.
“I’ve no wish to kick a man when he’s down. Especially one who’s worth $100 Million, but when James Corden said in yesterday’s NY Times that he hadn’t done “anything wrong, on any level,” was he joking? Or was he denying being abusive to my servers? Whatever Corden meant, his implication was clear: he didn’t do it. Although I didn’t witness the incident, lots of my restaurant’s floor staff did. They had nothing to gain by lying. Corden did. I wish James Corden would live up to his Almighty initials and come clean. If the supremely talented actor wants to retrieve the respect he had from all his fans (all 4 of them) before this incident, then he should at least admit he did wrong. If he goes one step further and apologizes to the 2 servers he insulted, I’ll let him eat for free at Balthazar for the next 10 years.”
He ate him up and left no crumbs (or egg whites)!
It certainly feels like we’re watching an Ellen Degeneres-level downfall—another affable-seeming TV host who’s spent years preaching about “kindness” while acting as a monster behind the scenes to “lesser-thans”—and I, for one, couldn’t be more thrilled about it. Again, if you pay attention to celebrity gossip and blind items, you’ve known about this behavior for awhile. It’s a pattern.
There once was a time celebrities could treat regular folk however they wanted. But with the emergence of social media and “tea” accounts, those days appear to be over. Treat someone like sh*t, and the world will find out one way or another. (That’s why when I hear a celebrity is “ultra-kind” now, I contemplate whether it’s genuine or they just know the interaction will end up on Deux Moi. And whether you love Deux Moi or hate it, you can’t argue it’s likely made celebrities start behaving better.)
Now, with Corden’s show set to end soon—good f*cking riddance—we can only hope we crawls back into his tiny cretin nest. (Apparently, the UK doesn’t want him either, though. Ugh.)
Banning him from restaurants isn’t enough! We need deportation!
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