James Corden admits that his wife has never watched Gavin & Stacey
- who now presents The Late Late Show in America - is still shouted at in the street by fans who love and adore his character Smithy.
"My wife to this day who has never watched an episode of Gavin and Stacey is constantly taken aback by the level of 'Smithy, let's get a beer'."I always think well, I don't drink beer it gets me a little gassy. “It’s a funny world, entertainment. If an alien came down and they had to take a reading on planet Earth by just watching films or TV, they would imagine that if you are chubby, or fat, or big, you never really fall in love, you never have sex, certainly no one really ever finds you attractive.
“As you get older you’ll probably be a judge in something or be dropping off a television to a handsome person in a sitcom.MOST READ IN TV & SHOWBIZhol lot slimmerJamie Redknapp spotted on night out with 'Louise Redknapp lookalike'Dani Dyer weighed 7st and her mum feared she was suicidal after ex splitAnd that’s really how it can feel. It felt like if the world of entertainment was a big banquet table, and people would be like, ‘No, no, no, there isn’t a seat for you here’.
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