When James Corden first started out doing CBS’s Late Late Show, One Direction was one of his first guests. It was a pretty big get for the brand new late night host, so how did he get them?
At a CBS Studios event, he told the press how he knew one of the band members since the singer was just a preteen. He explained, “Louis (Tomlinson)’s mom was a chaperone on a TV show that I did in 2002 (Fat Friends) and she used to chaperone a couple of the kids on the show and Louis would hang around on the set a little bit.”
About 8 years went by and then he got an email from Johannah Poulston telling Corden that her son was doing The X Factor in London and would he mind looking after her son and his bandmates since they are there on their own.
So now he was going to chaperone the kid of the woman who used to chaperone the kids on the show he worked on. Although, I am not sure he really did that because he revealed, “A few of them would come around a couple of times and we would play Play Station games and eat pizza and my wife would feel like she was babysitting us.”
Either way, they have kept up their friendship after all of these years and that is why they were one of his first guests. Well, Corden’s show has been on for a while now, and his old friends will be on it again tonight at 12:35a. What is that special thing he has planned for them? We will only find out if we tune into CBS, but we do know that it will be something you don’t want to dodge.
