Corden’s father takes aim at BBC film reviewer

James Corden’s father has complained to the BBC after a film reviewer said he was “appallingly irritating”.

The actor voices the protagonist in the new Peter Rabbit film, in the character’s first big-screen depiction.

Mark Kermode’s Radio 5 Live co-presenter Simon Mayo read out a letter said to have been penned by Corden’s father, Malcolm Corden.

Quoting the letter, Mayo said: “To hear you describe our son as appallingly irritating... was very difficult to listen to.”