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TELLY host James Corden has given himself a social media ban.
The funnyman reckons it is bad for his emotional health and refuses to have Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp on his phone.
He reveals: “I just don’t think it’s that good for you. I really don’t think it does positive things for you. I don’t ever look at it.”
He does occasionally send a tweet from his @JKCorden account – which has more than 10.2million followers – but says he immediately feels regret and then deletes the app again.
“I put something on Twitter and then I immediately remove the app from my phone again,” he reveals. “I don’t know what it’s supposed to do for you because it doesn’t do it for me.
“I don’t have WhatsApp or any social media on my phone. I don’t really get what Instagram is either.”
Rocket
Londoner James, 39, who started off as an actor writing and starring in Brit comedies such as Gavin & Stacey and Fat Friends has seen his career rocket after moving to Hollywood in 2015 to host The Late Late Show.
But he reckons it’s returning to London to hang out with his mates Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp on sports-based panel show A League Of Their Own that stops him getting too swept away with the Hollywood lifestyle.
“I think you’ve got to Google Earth yourself sometimes,” he says poignantly. “You can be guilty of, at times, looking around and thinking you’re more of a dude than you really are. That’s a really naive thing to do.
“I come back to the UK to see and hang out with the guys. I feel a tremendous amount of gratitude to A League Of Their Own. I feel like it made me better at hosting things and I just I love it.
“If anything I wish I could be more involved with the stuff that we pre-shoot as those are the days that are really fun.
“The friendships that I have made on this show are what life is about. I’ve learned that it’s all life is about – having good relationships and people around you.
“I don’t really think of myself as a presenter, I prefer to act and work with directors.
“But it’s all a performance isn’t it? I’m a very different person on this show than I am on the show over there. None of it is completely natural. The carpool videos are the closest to me being truly who I am because it’s so stripped back.”
James recently bagged Sir Paul