James Corden prefers not to talk about an omelette with Baltazar

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

Corden, comedian and host of CBS’s The Late Late Show, was eating breakfast Thursday morning at Mark by Jean-Georges’ Restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side when he heard another patron at a nearby table scolding a waiter about the meal she ordered. It seemed that the eggs did not like her.

Corden cast a conspiratorial look across his private table for a New York Times reporter who was dining with him and calmly said, “It happens every day. It happens in 55,000 restaurants right now. It’s always about eggs.”

He added, more subtly, “Can you imagine now, if we attacked her on Twitter? Would that be fair? That’s my point. It’s crazy.”

The original purpose of this conversation, which Corden and his press representatives agreed at the beginning of the month, was to talk about a new Amazon Prime video mini-series, called “mammals” in which he stars, and his upcoming departure from The Late Late Show, Who will leave next year? After a period of more than eight years.

But that agenda was pretty much blown up on Monday when Keith McNally said… The owner of the strong restaurant who often shares his controversial views on social media, wrote In an Instagram post He banned Corden as a customer. Citing reports from his restaurant managers, McNally said Corden reprimanded employees for making mistakes with his meals, including one in which Corden’s wife ordered an omelette with egg yolks that arrived with some egg whites.

McNally wrote that Corden is “a very talented comedian, but he’s a little cretin for a guy. And the most outrageous client for Balthazar’s servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”

McNally Books In a later post on Instagram Corden has apologized to him. “Everything is forgiven,” McNally said, adding, “I believe very strongly in second chances.” He wrote that “anyone who is generous enough to apologize to a defeated person like myself (and my staff) does not deserve to be banned from anywhere.”

But his initial post has already been widely shared, puncturing the British artist’s image as a gentle master of ceremonies and encouraging other social media users to re-highlight Corden’s earlier accusations of rude public behaviour.

On Thursday morning, after a lengthy interview in which Corden said variously that the controversy around him did not deserve recognition and was likely to be addressed on Monday’s broadcast of “The Late Late Show,” he defiantly declared that he did not want to take credit for moving forward on what was It can be — and often is — an awkward conversation.

“I have done nothing wrong, at any level,” he said. “So why am I canceling this? I was there. I get it. I feel very Zen about everything. Because I think it’s so ridiculous. I just think it’s under all of us. It’s under you. It’s definitely below your post.”

For American viewers who became very familiar with Corden when he took over as host of “The Late Late Show” in March 2015, he has come to be seen as a very nice star. He helped revitalize his relaxed late night franchise with featured clips like “Carpool Karaoke” He has hosted the Grammy Awards and the Tony Awards. He even appears on screen wrong, like his role in 2019 movie based on Cats movie, He did little to derail his career path.

“Mammals,” which debuted in November, is a prestigious television project and pivot away from Corden’s beloved “Late Late Show” character. Written by Jez Butterworth (author of popular plays like “Jerusalem” and “Infectious”), this mini-series is a dark comedy exploration of marital loyalty that also starred Millia Creling, Sally Hawkins, and Colin Morgan. (Corden’s character, it happens, is a chef–someone who has a moment of personal revelation when, as a humble subordinate cook, he tells a superior chef who has been tough with him and his kitchen staff.)

Corden first gained attention in Britain for his performances in plays such as “The History Boys” and for aiding creativity Famous TV Comedy “Gavin & Stacey” in which he also participated. He’s wrestled with accusations of rude behavior before.

In the 2011 memoir “May I bring it to your attention, please?” Corden writes candidly about a period surrounded by the runaway success of “Gavin & Stacey” when he fails other follow-up projects, behaves rudely to his colleagues and is called out by one of his sisters for his corruption. Corden recounted that she told him there had been several times he had “almost squandered everything” he had “worked for” because of his behaviour.

Corden also wrote about an incident at the 2008 awards show when, after receiving the Comedy Acting Award and “Gavin & Stacey” winning the Audience Award, he used his acceptance letter to complain that the show wasn’t nominated for Best Sitcom. category. Self-deprecating after the fact, Corden wrote for his “great sense of entitlement,” “I can see why and how it sounded–terrible, ungrateful, and slanderous.”

McNally’s Instagram post painted a portrait of an iconic celebrity who hasn’t changed much in the intervening years. In a manager’s report, Corden was described as “very bad” after he said he found a hair in his food, and demands free drinks. A second report on the egg-yolk omelet said Corden “started screaming like crazy” after the restaurant tried to make amends for his initial mistake of ordering his wife a replacement dish that included house fries instead of her salad.

At Thursday’s breakfast, Corden did not give his own account of what happened in these incidents or discuss whether he had apologized. At first, avoid any discussion of or reaction to McNally’s posts. When asked if he feels alright, Corden Saghili said, “About what? What do you mean?”

When asked directly if he was aware of the conversation about him initiated by McNally Posts, Corden said, “I haven’t really read anything. It’s weird. It’s weird when I was there. I think I’d probably talk about it on Monday’s show. My feeling, A lot of the time, he never explains, he never complains. But maybe I should talk about it.”

And he added, as he said several times in the conversation, “It’s a ridiculous feeling to talk about.”

Corden said any criticism of him online likely reflects the awareness and opinions of a small portion of the general population.

“Shouldn’t we all be adults about this?” He said. “I promise, ask about this restaurant. They don’t know about this. Maybe 15 percent of people. I’ve been here, been driving around New York, and not a single person has come to me. We’re dealing in two worlds here.”

“If you live on Twitter, Hillary Clinton is the President of the United States and Jeremy Corbyn wins by a landslide,” he added.

While Corden said he hasn’t denied anyone the right to criticize him online, he compared the news media’s amplification of negative social media posts to a school principal offering help to classroom bullies.

“The director makes a decision to stand up and say, ‘I’d like all these bullies to come up on stage and say, into the microphone, what they were just saying in the hallway over there,'” he said.

At the conclusion of breakfast, Corden gave a friendly farewell and left the restaurant. The waiter she served said she was vaguely aware of his identity. “I know he’s famous,” she said. “I think he’s British.”