James Corden has announced that he will step down as host ofThe Late Late Show.
The 43-year-old star of Cats made the statement during a taping of the CBS talk show on Thursday, according to The New York Times.
The show originally launched with host Tom Snyder in 1995, who was followed by Craig Kilborn from 1999 to 2004.
In the last seven years he has become a well-known, if divisive, figure in America, helped in particular by the massive viral success of The Late Late Show‘s “Carpool Karaoke”.