Harry Styles and Will Ferrell set to be the FINAL guests for The Late Late Show with James Corden

April 21, 2023

Just days after The Late Late Show debunked rumors that One Direction will reunite for the show’s final episode, the CBS late-night talk show confirmed Harry Styles would be one of the final guests alongside Will Ferrell.

Gossip outlet DeuxMoi revealed that Styles, 29, would reunite with his One Direction bandmates Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik for the first time in eight years.

The official Late Late Show Twitter debunked the report, stating, ‘Nobody loves the boys more than us … but this story just isn’t true.’

‘What is true is we’ve got an absolutely brilliant 2 hour finale planned to celebrate 8 years of #LateLateShow at 10pm on April 27th,’ the statement concluded.

CBS announced on Monday that Styles and Ferrell – who both have a long history with the show – will be the final guests in the last regular episode, following a primetime special.

Final: Just days after The Late Late Show debunked rumors that One Direction will reunite for the show’s final episode, the CBS late-night talk show confirmed Harry Styles would be one of the final guests alongside Will Ferrell

Brilliant: ‘What is true is we’ve got an absolutely brilliant 2 hour finale planned to celebrate 8 years of #LateLateShow at 10pm on April 27th,’ the statement concluded

CBS: CBS announced on Monday that Styles and Ferrell – who both have a long history with the show – will be the final guests in the last regular episode, following a primetime special

Styles first appeared on The Late Late Show as part of One Direction during the 30th episode of the show’s first season in 2015.

The band returned in the second season in 2016, while also appearing in two Carpool Karaoke segments as well.

Styles returned solo for a full week of shows in the third season in 2017, along with two solo appearances in Season 4 as well.

He also returned for episodes in Season 5 and Season 6 before his last appearance in Season 8 last year.

Ferrell and his Get Hard co-star Kevin Hart were guests in the third episode of the show during its premiere week in March 2015.

He returned again in Season 4 and Season 5 in 2018 and he also appeared in Corden’s Homefest during the COVID-19 pandemic.

His last appearance was in June 2020 to promote his movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

Two of the final three Carpool Karaoke segments have also been announced, Blackpink and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, with one final Carpool guest to be announced.

Solo: Styles returned solo for a full week of shows in the third season in 2017, along with two solo appearances in Season 4 as well

Season 8: He also returned for episodes in Season 5 and Season 6 before his last appearance in Season 8 last year

Homefest: He returned again in Season 4 and Season 5 in 2018 and he also appeared in Corden’s Homefest during the COVID-19 pandemic

There will also be an ‘epic final Crosswalk: The Musical performance’ in the show’s final weeks.

Guests for the last two weeks of the show also include Tom Cruise, Billie Eilish, Josh Gad, Jennifer Garner, Mila Kunis, Seth Meyers, Billy Porter, Lisa Kudrow, Sharon Stone and Natalie Portman.

Just hours before the final episode, CBS will air the one-hour special The Last Last Late Late Show with James Corden Carpool Karaoke Special, which airs at 10 PM ET before the final episode at 12:37 AM ET.

Tom Cruise will also join Corden for one final ‘over-the-top’ sketch that will debut during the primetime special.

Corden revealed during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show that a conversation with his son Max was what lead him to quit the late-night talk show and move his family back to the U.K.

‘I was filming on a Sunday and I came downstairs, it was about six a.m. and my son, who was ten at the time, was sat on the stairs and he said, “Are you working today?” and I said, “I am.”

‘He said, “I thought, well it’s Sunday,” and I said, “I know buddy but this schedule’s just all over the place.

‘We just got to get it done because we only have a tiny amount of time before we have to go back and do the show,” and his face just kind of dropped,’ Corden said.

‘I got in the car and I called my wife Jules and I said, “I’ve realized, best case scenario we have six more summers where Max is like, even remotely wants to be around us and I cannot waste another one,”‘ Corden explained.

‘So, really the choice was to go, “Well if I really want to do this other work, that cannot be at the expensive of our children, our family,” and that is really all it comes down to,’ Corden added.