Corden looks back in anger

Gavin & Stacey star James Corden is unlikely ever to appear again in Hollyoaks, the soap in which he had a small role eight years ago. How do we know this? Because he told this month's Esquire: "I'd actually rather die than go back. It's fucking awful. I can't tell you the sheer disdain I have for the place and the people." Get off the fence, James, please. The Bafta-winning writer and actor, who used to play in a Salvation Army band as a child, said he still had "a faith". "Be nice to people and don't do to others what they wouldn't do to you, and don't kill people and don't covet thy neighbour's wife - these are all good ways to live your life," says Corden. 'Thou shalt not slag off your former Hollyoaks colleagues' is presumably not another of them.