James Corden

James Corden slips into pair of tight Speedos

James Corden slips into pair of frightfully tight Speedos as he joins Tom Daley on the diving board for Sport Relief.

Video: James Corden trains footballers for Sport Relief

Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand have been put through their paces by Gavin and Stacey star James Corden.

Matt Lucas (Little Britain, Shooting Stars) with a new panel game. It's an awards show, the Lucases being awarded for the best, worst, ugliest, scariest, etc. Tonight's guests, comedian Katy Brand, actor and writer James Corden (Gavin & Stacey) and TV writer Graham Linehan (the immortal Father Ted, the sublime Black Books and the underrated The IT Crowd) nominate contenders then hand out Lucases for The Lamest Excuse of All Time, Most Pointless Member of the Royal Family and Greatest Song By a Musical Artist Who Is Otherwise Rubbish.

James Corden to appear in Dr Who

Gavin And Stacey star James Corden is to appear in the new series of Doctor Who.

James Corden's latest strip

This Sky1 promo looks like a paean to a football champion, as normally seen in commercials for the likes of Nike and Adidas. But look closer, isn't that TV's James Corden? Being a bit rubbish?

Horne & Corden Aren't Speaking

Mat Horne and James Corden have stopped speaking and have no plans to work together again.

If you missed season three of this ever-wonderful family sitcom, you can catch the entire run tonight. Some of the dynamics of the show are changing: Nessa (Ruth Jones) seems less amenable, Mick (Larry Lamb) a little spikier (shades of his EastEnders character?) and Bryn (Rob Brydon) even stranger, but it remains sweet-natured. As the final series opens, Gavin (Mathew Horne) has started a new job in Cardiff so Stacey (Joanna Page) is back at home in Barry and a christening is being planned for baby Neil, but there's a shock in store for his father, Smithy (James Corden).

The final episode of Gavin and Stacey saw lovesick Smithy interrupt Nessa's wedding to Dave Coaches with a speech so poignant, funny and beautifully delivered that you could almost forgive writer/star James Corden for Horne & Corden. Almost, but not quite.

We'd better start the petition now. If tonight is truly to be the last-ever Gavin & Stacey, there will be much wailing and rending of garments on the sofas of Britain. Sitcoms this complete don't come along every day. For my money, G&S assembled the finest group of believably, lovably mad characters in one cast since Walmington-on-Sea's Home Guard last lined up. Amid the scene-stealing eccentrics, it's easy to overlook how good James Corden is as Smithy. Throughout the series he has been great in those awkward moments with Nessa. He's mostly hovered on the sidelines, but tonight his moment may have come. We start on the eve of Nessa and Dave's wedding. "How many times do you get married in this life?" she wonders aloud. "Twice? Three times? I want to do it in style." And as we know, Nessa's idea of style is an ocean away from anyone else's - not so much meringue as Viking princess. What unfolds is as poignant and sharp as you'd expect, albeit with an ending that feels awfully final. Come on chaps: what price a Christmas special next year?

It's Nessa and Dave's wedding, an event every fan will be wishing doesn't happen. We all know she's supposed to end up with Smithy. So does he. The moment he meets Nessa to collect baby Neil and just can't bring himself to reveal his feelings is heart breaking. As she heads up back the motorway for her big day you want to shout at the telly: "Go after her, you big buffoon!"

But leave it a bit, alright? We've got to see TV's most unlikely bride do the walking down the aisle bit first. Nessa wants her big day to be done in style - but this is Nessa's style, so she looks more like Boudicca than a meringue.

The episode, in case you've been living under a rock, is the last-ever one (unless I get my wish and the careers of Ruth Jones and James Corden go belly up and they're so desperate they're forced to write more).

And it's faultless, with the superb choice of music including the same tearjerker that Scott and Charlene walked down the aisle to in Neighbours and You've Got The Love, used in the Sex & The City finale. So will Nessa get Gavin & Stacey's answer to Mr Big? Or, heaven forbid, will she clap eyes on ex-lover John Prescott (who cameos) and run off with him instead?