How James Corden Is Transforming His Body

In 2019, James Corden responded to Bill Maher, who'd done a piece suggesting we bring back fat-shaming. The late-night talk show host admitted to his audience that he lived his life on and off diets for most of his life. "I have good days and bad months," he lamented, and scolded Maher, "fat-shaming never went anywhere, I mean ask literally any fat person, we are reminded of it all the time, on airplanes, on Instagram." 

Neither does fat-shaming inspire change. Quite the opposite, Corden reminded his colleague: it leads to low self-esteem and depression. Months later, Corden was back on air talking about his weight, again. In November 2019, he told Alan Carr he'd committed to a diet. "I'm not drinking at the moment. It's killing me but I'm trying to lose a bit of weight," he said. Nor was he letting himself eat bread. "I love bread so much," he cried.

His late 2019 diet, like many before them, didn't get Corden the results he'd hoped for. But 2021 is a blank page. This year, Corden is making real progress with his weight loss goals. In fact, the television personality recently celebrated having lost 16 pounds in five weeks.

It all started when the 42-year-old committed to joining WW and started focusing on more than simply limiting his food intake (via YouTube). For Corden, joining the weight-loss program meant transforming the way he eats, moves, and conceptualizes healthy living. Key to his program? The comedian has surrounded himself with a circle of support. Also, "I've been doing some exercise, which I hate," he admitted to Oprah Winfrey at a virtual WW event on Feb. 13. "I just can't bear it, so I'm using the word hates. But my wife is so good at it" (via People).

We suspect that a key part of James Corden's success thus far has been his change in attitude. "As a man, it's historically seen as [not] very sexy to say that you're on a diet, or it's not very manly somehow to want to make changes in your own health," Corden reflected. But he sees things differently now. "I actually think ... it is the single most positive and sexy thing you can do to say, 'I would like to be a bit healthier. I would like to be the healthiest person to my family for my children. I would like to feel better.'"

Even if you don't watch his show, you can catch a glimpse of Corden's new bod, as he recently strutted up to The Weeknd, pre-Super Bowl, pretending to be one of his body-double back-up dancers.