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Both James Corden and his late-night talk show's Twitter accounts have lost thousands of followers after weeks of public drama.
In the past few weeks, Corden has been banned from a prominent New York City restaurant and accused of plagiarizing a Ricky Gervais joke.
Corden has lost more than 28,000 Twitter followers since Balthazar restaurant owner Keith McNally slapped the TV host with a lifetime ban and accused Corden of berating his employees during his multiple visits.
He has averaged a loss of about 944 followers per day, but Corden's biggest hit came on October 28 when almost 3,500 accounts unfollowed him, according to data from analytics firm Social Blade.
The Twitter account for The Late Late Show with James Corden, the talk show he has hosted since 2015, lost more than 5,000 followers in the same time.
Both accounts have dropped more followers daily than gaining any new ones since October 22, four days after McNally announced his ban.
The figures might be a drop in the ocean for Corden who still boasts 10.9 million followers, while The Late Late Show's Twitter account has around 1.5 million.
Corden has taken a hit to his public profile since McNally's accusations with other past allegations of him being rude to people resurfacing.
McNally did eventually rescind the ban after Corden publicly and privately apologized, only to lash out at the star again on Halloween.
"LAST POST ON THIS NON-STORY," McNally wrote on Instagram. "I don't want to over-egg the pudding, but in Friday's London Times Corden flip-flopped and told a massive lie AGAIN."
McNally referred to Corden's interview with The Times, where he said he "never screamed at anyone" and "didn't call anyone a name or swear or use derogatory language."
"On second viewing, I found his TV "confessional" contrived and phony. The actor will say anything to save his bacon," McNally wrote.
He continued, "In the scheme of things my opinion means nothing, but after Friday's interview and a second look at his fraudulent confessional, I've given up on James Corden. For Good. END OF STORY."
Along with the Balthazar drama, Corden was accused of stealing another comedian's joke.
Fans pointed out a joke on his talk show sounded similar to a joke his British counterpart Ricky Gervais used in his 2018 stand-up special Humanity.
Corden told a joke about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter during the Halloween episode of the late-night talk show.
"Elon Musk talks about Twitter and goes, 'Well it's the town square.' I'm like, 'But it isn't,'" Corden said during his monologue.
"Because if someone puts up a poster in the town square that says 'guitar lessons available' you don't get people in the town going 'I don't want to play guitar! I want to play the piano.'"
Thousands of people then took to social media to accuse Corden of stealing the joke "word for word" from Gervais.
The After Life comedian addressed the gaffe on his own Twitter account, but later deleted the post.
He wrote: "The bit about the town square advert for guitar lessons is brilliant."
Gervais included a laughing emoji in the retweet which received more than 20,000 likes, comments, and retweets before it was deleted.
Corden apologized for "inadvertently" using Gervais' joke and recommended people watch his specials on Netflix.
"Inadvertently told a brilliant Ricky Gervais joke on the show last night, obviously not knowing it came from him. It's brilliant, because it's a Ricky Gervais joke," Corden wrote on the Late Late Show Twitter page.
Gervais retweeted Corden's explanation.
Newsweek has reached out to James Corden's representatives for comment.
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