WHY JAMES WAS SO LATE LATE TO DIETING

JAMES CORDEN was afraid to go on a diet because it’s ‘not very sexy’.

The Late Late Show host, 42, joined WW – previously Weight Watchers – at the start of the year and explained why he had been reluctant to do it for so long.

‘As a man, to say that you’re on a diet... it’s not very manly to want to make changes in your own health somehow. Because men drink beer, we go out and it doesn’t matter what you look like,’ he told Oprah Winfrey at the WW Your Life in Focus virtual event. ‘I actually think it is the single most positive, sexy thing you can do to say, “I would like to be a bit healthier for my family, for my children.”’

James also praised his wife Julia Carey – mum to son Max, nine, and daughters Carey, six, and Charlotte, three - for supporting him on his weight-loss journey.

‘My wife has been incredible ... amazing,’ he said.

‘I’m on the start of a journey that I’m determined to finish. I’ve lost 16lb in five weeks... and I’ve been doing some exercise, which I hate. I can’t bear it. But my wife is so good at it.’

Weight is over: James has lost 16lb

I understand there are many discussions about how to recover the education lost to children during the pandemic. But extended school days or shorter holiday periods should definitely not be an option.

I believe nobody is thinking about the effect this will have on parents’ day-to-day lives. The situation is already making it harder to adjust.

Like most working parents, we have a tight schedule of doing a school run before getting off to work straight away. (I do permanent lates.) I would not be able to cope if my kids had to stay at school any longer.

Plus there’s already so much pressure on children, especially those in secondary school – why should we add more by making their days longer or giving them shorter holidays?

Neither should repeating the year be an option because this would mess up the system at the school and children’s futures. I strongly believe we should change the curriculum and make it a bit easier for the students schooling for the next 10+ exam, so every child affected can recover from this. No child should suffer as none of it is their fault. It’s just unprecedented times.