James Corden banned from NY restaurant for 'abusing' staff

[no1novice]

Oct 18, 2022 21:23:33 GMT no said:

I fucking hate this dude and his giant head and fake niceness. and I hate even more that my roommate tolerates him enough to watch his show every now and again, like holy shit get some better taste omg.

and carpool karaoke sucks. we know you think you can sing. we know.

🤣🤣🤣

[no1novice]

Try Guys wife claims she saw James Corden scream at busboy over closed restaurant

By Emily Selleck

October 19, 2022 | 12:11pm

Becky Habersberger, the wife of Try Guys member Keith Habersberger, once allegedly watched James Corden scream at a Los Angeles busboy.

The makeup artist shared a TikTok video Tuesday detailing the alleged incident, one day after the talk show host was slammed for mistreating Balthazar servers.


“I overhear busboy telling James Corden that Little Dom’s is closed right now,” the 32-year-old recalled, noting she was “walking down the street going to a happy hour” when she witnessed the alleged tirade.

“They close in the middle of the day between lunch and dinner,” the influencer said of the popular Italian eatery in Los Feliz, Calif.

“[The busboy] is telling James Corden he can get him a reservation right when they open,” Becky added. “He was trying to be really accommodating.”

She claimed that the “Late Late Show With James Corden” host, 44, then “yells at this bus boy, ‘A lot of good that does me, mate, a lot of good that does me.'”
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Becky Habersberger recalled the time she allegedly witnessed James Corden scream at a Los Angeles busboy.

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The social media upload came on the heels of Balthazar owner Keith McNally calling Corden the “most abusive” customer he’s ever had and banning him from the iconic New York City eatery.

The “Into The Woods” star allegedly “profusely” apologized, and McNally unbanned him.

Becky, however, doesn’t believe that “James Corden is really sorry,” she continued in her TikTok video.
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The tirade allegedly occurred at Little Dom’s, a popular Italian eatery.



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“If he was really sorry, he would have apologized to the server and not the owner of the restaurant,” she said.

Elsewhere in the video, the “Try Wives” podcast host noted that “servers never forget” their rude celebrity customers.



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Corden has come under fire for being rude to servers.
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“I was a waitress at a super bougie Beverly Hills hotel rooftop restaurant,” she explained. “Some [stars] were awesome, some were trash and I remember to this day who the trash bags are.

“I’m not surprised by all this James Corden information coming out because if you are rude to one server, you are absolutely rude to many servers,” she opined. “That is not a one-off, ‘I was having a bad day’ kind of thing.”

[no1novice]

Keith McNally blasts ‘lying’ James Corden: Admit you ‘did wrong’

By Nicki Cox

October 21, 2022 | 1:58pm

Keith McNally blasted James Corden for “lying” about his “abusive” treatment of the Balthazar staff after the comedian claimed he did “nothing wrong.”

The restaurant owner — who recently rescinded Corden’s ban from the NYC hotpot — took to Instagram Friday to ask the “Late Late Show” host to “come clean” about his behavior after Corden denied any wrongdoing in an interview with the New York Times
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“I’ve no wish to kick a man when he’s down,” McNally, 71, wrote in yet another scathing social media post. “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,” he continued.
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McNally says Corden was “lying” in his New York Times interview.
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McNally went on to say while he didn’t personally witness the actor’s problematic behavior, his staff had nothing to gain from lying about the altercations.

“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,” McNally continued.


The restauranteur — who is known as “The Restaurateur Who Invented Downtown” — concluded the post saying he would let the 44-year-old eat for “free” at the French brasserie “for the next 10 years” if he “apologizes to the 2 servers he insulted.”

Corden spoke out for the first time the day prior, calling the accusations “silly” and saying he hadn’t “really read” anything McNally wrote on social media — despite the fact that he allegedly “apologized profusely” to the restauranteur earlier in the week.


“I haven’t done anything wrong, on any level,” he told the NYT. “So why would I ever cancel this [interview]? I was there. I get it.”

He continued, “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. It’s certainly beneath your publication.”

His denial came just days after McNally called Corden “the most abusive customer” he’s every experienced since opening his restaurant doors 25 years ago.
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The restaurant owner says his managers had nothing to gain from lying about their interactions with Corden.

The restauranteur shared two separate instances in which the talk show host allegedly berated his servers, demanded free food and drinks and threatened to write them negative reviews.

At the time, McNally banned Corden from his numerous New York City restaurants, only to reverse the decision days later when the actor called him to talk about the situation.


In a later post, McNally even said he felt “sorry” for Corden amidst the backlash.

“Feeling strange about the James Corden thing,” he wrote. “On the one hand, he was definitely abusive to my staff, on the other hand, I feel really sorry for him right now.”
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James Corden Would Rather Not Talk About That Omelet

In an interview to promote his coming series, “Mammals,” the actor and late-night host dismissed a flap stemming from an Instagram post accusing him of boorish restaurant behavior. “I think it’s so silly,” he said.




James Corden found himself the object of online scorn this week after the restaurateur Keith McNally accused him of abusive behavior toward wait staff.
James Corden found himself the object of online scorn this week after the restaurateur Keith McNally accused him of abusive behavior toward wait staff.Credit...Evan Agostini/Invision, via Associated Press
James Corden found himself the object of online scorn this week after the restaurateur Keith McNally accused him of abusive behavior toward wait staff.
Dave Itzkoff

By Dave Itzkoff
Oct. 20, 2022

The eggs were a problem again, but this time not for James Corden.

Corden, the comic actor and host of CBS’s “The Late Late Show,” was having breakfast on Thursday morning in the Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges on Manhattan’s Upper East Side when he overheard another patron at a nearby table curtly rebuking a waiter about the meal she had ordered. The eggs, it seemed, were not to her liking.

Corden shot a conspiratorial glance across his own table to a New York Times reporter he was dining with and quietly said: “Happens every day. It’s happening in 55,000 restaurants as we speak. It’s always about eggs.”

More archly, he added, “Can you imagine now, if we just blasted her on Twitter? Would that be fair? This is my point. It’s insane.”

The original goal of this conversation, to which Corden and his press representatives had agreed at the start of the month, had been to talk about a new Amazon Prime Video mini-series, called “Mammals,” that he is starring in, and his coming departure from “The Late Late Show,” which he will leave next year after a tenure of more than eight years.

But that agenda was largely blown up on Monday when Keith McNally, the powerful restaurateur who prolifically shares his often controversial opinions on social media, wrote in an Instagram post that he had banned Corden as a customer. Citing reports from his restaurant’s managers, McNally said that Corden had berated the staff for errors with his meals, including one in which Corden’s wife had ordered an egg yolk omelet that arrived with some egg white.

McNally wrote that Corden “is a Hugely gifted comedian, but a tiny Cretin of a man. And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”

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McNally wrote in a later Instagram post that Corden had apologized to him. “All is Forgiven,” McNally said, adding, “I strongly believe in second chances.” He wrote that “anyone magnanimous enough to apologize to a deadbeat layabout like me (and my staff) doesn’t deserve to be banned from anywhere.”

But his initial post had already been widely circulated, puncturing the British entertainer’s image as a genial master of ceremonies and encouraging other social media users to resurface past accusations of rude public behavior by Corden.

On Thursday morning, after a long interview in which Corden variously said that the debate about him was not worth acknowledging and that he was likely to address it in Monday’s broadcast of “The Late Late Show,” he defiantly declared that he did not want credit for going ahead with what could have been — and often was — an awkward conversation.

“I haven’t done anything wrong, on any level,” he said. “So why would I ever cancel this? 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. It’s certainly beneath your publication.”

To American viewers who largely became aware of Corden when he took over as the “Late Late Show” host in March 2015, he has come to be seen as an aggressively affable star. He has helped to reinvigorate his laid-back late-night franchise with signature segments like “Carpool Karaoke,” and he has handled hosting duties for the Grammy Awards and Tony Awards. Even his onscreen misfires, like a role in the abhorred 2019 film adaptation of “Cats,” did little to impede his career trajectory.
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Corden (pictured with Melia Kreiling), who is leaving “The Late Late Show” in 2023, stars next month in “Mammals,” an Amazon mini-series.
Corden (pictured with Melia Kreiling), who is leaving “The Late Late Show” in 2023, stars next month in “Mammals,” an Amazon mini-series. Credit...Luke Varley/Amazon Studios



Corden (pictured with Melia Kreiling), who is leaving “The Late Late Show” in 2023, stars next month in “Mammals,” an Amazon mini-series.

“Mammals,” which makes its debut in November, is a prestige TV project and a pivot away from Corden’s good-natured “Late Late Show” persona. This mini-series, written by Jez Butterworth (the author of acclaimed plays like “Jerusalem” and “The Ferryman”), is a darkly comic exploration of marital fidelity that also stars Melia Kreiling, Sally Hawkins and Colin Morgan. (Corden’s character, as it happens, is a chef — one who has a moment of personal revelation when, as a lowly subordinate cook, he tells off a superior chef who has been cruel to him and his kitchen staff.)

Corden first gained attention in Britain for his performances in plays like “The History Boys” and for helping to create the hit TV comedy “Gavin & Stacey,” in which he also co-starred. He has grappled with accusations of rude behavior before.

In a 2011 memoir titled “Can I Have Your Attention, Please?,” Corden wrote candidly of a period surrounding the runaway success of “Gavin & Stacey” when he was failing with other follow-up projects, behaving rudely to colleagues and being called out by one of his sisters for his boorishness. Corden recounted that she had told him there were quite a few times when he had “nearly squandered everything” he had “strived so hard for” because of his behavior.

Corden also wrote of an incident at a 2008 awards show when, after he received a comedy acting trophy and “Gavin & Stacey” won an audience award, he had used an acceptance speech to complain that the show had not been nominated in the best sitcom category. Castigating himself after the fact for his “huge sense of entitlement,” Corden wrote, “I can see why and how it must have looked — ungracious, ungrateful and brattish.”

McNally’s Instagram post painted a picture of a privileged celebrity who had not changed much in the intervening years. In one manager’s report, Corden was described as being “extremely nasty” after he said he had found a hair in his food, demanding free drinks to be placated. A second report on the egg yolk omelet meal said that Corden “began yelling like crazy” after the restaurant tried to remedy its initial mistake on his wife’s order with a replacement dish that included home fries instead of the salad she had requested.

At Thursday’s breakfast, Corden did not give his own account of what had happened in these incidents or discuss whether he had apologized. At first, he parried any discussion of McNally’s posts or the reaction to them. Asked if he was feeling all right, Corden cagily said: “About what? What do you mean?”

When asked directly if he was aware of the conversation about him that McNally’s posts had initiated, Corden said: “I haven’t really read anything. It’s strange. It’s strange when you were there. I think I’m probably going to have to talk about it on Monday’s show. My feeling, often, is, never explain, never complain. But I’ll probably have to talk about it.”

He added, as he said several times in the conversation, that “it feels like such a silly thing to talk about.”

Corden said that any online criticism of him likely reflected the awareness and opinions of a small part of the overall population.

“Should we not all be a little grown-up about this?” he said. “I promise you, ask around this restaurant. They don’t know about this. Maybe 15 percent of people. I’ve been here, been walking around New York, not one person’s come up to me. We’re dealing in two worlds here.”

He added, “If I lived on Twitter, Hillary Clinton is the president of the United States and Jeremy Corbyn won by a landslide.”

While Corden said that he was not denying anyone’s right to criticize him online, he compared the news media’s amplification of negative social media posts to a school principal offering aid to classroom bullies.

“The principal makes the decision to stand up and say, ‘I’d like all of those bullies to come up onto the stage and say, into the microphone, what they’ve just been saying in the hallway over there,’” he said.

At the breakfast’s conclusion, Corden offered a cordial goodbye and left the restaurant. The waiter who had served him said she was only vaguely aware of who he was. “I know he’s famous,” she said. “I think he’s British.”

Dave Itzkoff is a culture reporter whose latest book, “Robin,” a biography of Robin Williams, was published in May 2018. @ditzkoff

www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/arts/television/james-corden-balthazar.html

[firebrat1229]

I love when assholes like this out themselves by doubling down on their nonsense when caught. He sounds like Trump.

[MsDark]

He always gave off low key asshole vibes, even at his most fake-nicest.

[no]

people who always try super hard to be the nicest one in the room are often the biggest assholes behind the scenes.

[lindsaywhit]

Oct 22, 2022 2:16:55 GMT no said:

people who always try super hard to be the nicest one in the room are often the biggest assholes behind the scenes.

There are usually 'tells' though, don't you think? 

For example, I used to love Ellen, but gradually as her show continued, she clearly came across as a bully who liked making people afraid and/or uncomfortable. Many of the games on her show were purposely humiliating for the audience members who participated, and scaring people all the time? Yeah, not funny.

Then came the epic Dakota Johnson interview, which was amazing, because Dakota didn't yell or even seem angry, she just called Ellen out very calmly after Ellen tried to embarrass her... again.

James Corden has always come across like an arrogant jackass, and I've never found him at all funny - but I do like Carpool Karaoke, which I watch on Youtube.

[Sarzy]

Not James Corden but more restaurant stories. 


Michael Cecchi-Azzolina laid out his stories of celebrities in his new book, 'Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D''

Meghan Markle stood by silently as her handler furiously demanded a private table at New York City's Michelin-starred Le Coucou in 2017, according to a new book.

Former maître d' Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, who worked at the restaurant for two and a half years, claims the star-turned-royal required a table because 'it's for someone who is dating a prince.'

I said, 'I still don't have a private table for you,'' he wrote in his upcoming memoir, 'Your Table is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maitre D.'

Markle and her handler arrived at the restaurant 20 minutes early for their reservation and were subsequently aggressive with staff.

'Are you aware my guest is dating Prince Harry and about to be a duchess?' Cecchi-Azzolina recalls the handler asking. 'Don't you have a private area for us to wait?

'My first impulse was to laugh. I could give two s**ts about Prince Harry's date, and by the attention the escort was drawing from the crowd at the bar, nor did anyone else.'

During the encounter, Markle reportedly 'didn't say a word' and was described by Cecchi-Azzolina as 'aloof.'

'We get the most powerful people in the world that come here — no one really cares about you,' he said.

He adds in other encounters with celebrities, including Vogue editor Anna Wintour and supermodel Naomi Campbell, both of whom allegedly regularly appeared unannounced and repeatedly sent food back at Raoul's Soho.

'Naomi Campbell would come, be rude and complain about her food almost every time,' Cecchi-Azzolina writes.

The supermodel would routinely appear at the restaurant in the early 2000s as she dated U2 bass player Adam Clayton.

'She was someone we dreaded coming in,' he told the New York Post.

'She needed a lot of attention. She sent her food back quite a few times. I want to say it was the rack of lamb.'
Wintour was similar, Cecchi-Azzolina adds, and was 'absolutely horrid' as she would 'march in with no reservation and demand a table.'

The Vogue editor ordered a steak 'very rare' and requested it be served 'immediately.'

'God forbid it was the least bit overcooked. She'd look at the server as though he'd just served her rat and have it sent back and redone. You'd think the raw meat would make her less sanguine,' he said.

She'd just walk in or call and say, 'I'm coming.' One time she came in and we were closing the back room and she insisted on sitting in the back room and we had to keep a waiter there and give her own waiter. Boy, was that waitress pissed.'

'She doesn't really talk to the staff. She's like, 'I'm having this, and that's it.'' 

The announcement for the memoir, to be released December 6, follows a recent saga featuring James Corden and Balthazar owner Keith McNally.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11343473/Former-maitre-d-claims-Meghan-Markle-stood-silent-irate-handler-demanded-private-table.html

[trixie]

Oct 22, 2022 15:04:12 GMT lindsaywhit said:

Oct 22, 2022 2:16:55 GMT no said:

people who always try super hard to be the nicest one in the room are often the biggest assholes behind the scenes.

There are usually 'tells' though, don't you think? 

For example, I used to love Ellen, but gradually as her show continued, she clearly came across as a bully who liked making people afraid and/or uncomfortable. Many of the games on her show were purposely humiliating for the audience members who participated, and scaring people all the time? Yeah, not funny.

Then came the epic Dakota Johnson interview, which was amazing, because Dakota didn't yell or even seem angry, she just called Ellen out very calmly after Ellen tried to embarrass her... again.

James Corden has always come across like an arrogant jackass, and I've never found him at all funny - but I do like Carpool Karaoke, which I watch on Youtube.

I totally agree with you about Ellen, I thought she was really a bully, the way she laughed while humiliating/scaring people. Then, she gets her own prime time game show where people are humiliated for money while she laughs hysterically. And the show lasted a few seasons!

[czb]

i never paid so much attention to ellen but i did watch the youtube clip with her dakota. the way dakota handled that was amazing, i was so impressed. i try to copy her when i have interactions like that. helps with tools at work.

[kittylady]

Oct 22, 2022 17:42:43 GMT trixie said:

Oct 22, 2022 15:04:12 GMT lindsaywhit said:

There are usually 'tells' though, don't you think? 

For example, I used to love Ellen, but gradually as her show continued, she clearly came across as a bully who liked making people afraid and/or uncomfortable. Many of the games on her show were purposely humiliating for the audience members who participated, and scaring people all the time? Yeah, not funny.

Then came the epic Dakota Johnson interview, which was amazing, because Dakota didn't yell or even seem angry, she just called Ellen out very calmly after Ellen tried to embarrass her... again.

James Corden has always come across like an arrogant jackass, and I've never found him at all funny - but I do like Carpool Karaoke, which I watch on Youtube.

I totally agree with you about Ellen, I thought she was really a bully, the way she laughed while humiliating/scaring people. Then, she gets her own prime time game show where people are humiliated for money while she laughs hysterically. And the show lasted a few seasons!

The thing she pulled where she tried to force Mariah Carey into admitting she was pregnant (which she later miscarried) by handing her champagne was disgusting.

[trixie]

^^^ Yeah, I don't know why people tolerated her for so long, maybe because they thought she represented LGBTQ, so she couldn't be criticized? As if that stopped her from being a sadistic bitch?

[no1novice]

I never watched her so didn't know about any of this but there are YouTube compilations about her .

[lindsaywhit]

Because I worked in the industry, there's no way I could even count the number of VIPs & celebrities I met, but I've been trying to remember which of these exalted people were the nicest or the rudest. Most people were actually pretty nice, but there were a few stand-outs. Oddly enough, some really awful people (as far as who they are and what they stand for/espouse) were very polite and pleasant.

The worst was some Astor or Vanderbilt woman. (I can't even remember the bitch's name - guess she wasn't as important as she thought.) She was there to see my boss, who was momentarily held up, and she was furious and wouldn't talk to me except to tell me she didn't talk to 'clerical' people and did I not hear her name and know who she was? I barked out a single laugh before I could stop myself, which of course pissed her off even more and, ignoring her own ban against speaking to peasants she demanded to know how I dared to laugh, and I really tried to stop even smiling, but honestly - who the hell actually says that???  Surprisingly, she did not threaten to get me fired. 

[loftybike]

The Mariah champagne thing is still one of the most awful things I've seen. Only this Hilton guy topped it with the Bo Derek "picture of the weak" where he had drawn a penis over the clearly disturbed woman leaving a hospital, with a typical stupid, degoratory comment.
Turned out her brother had just died with her at his side. Of course he didn't apologize.