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You really don’t want to get on the wrong side of people serving you food.
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Are the Brits okay? Between the queen’s death, Liz Truss resigning right in front of my lettuce, The Great British Bake OffIt’s Mexican Week The Great British Bake Offfrom the West End and the self-appointment of James Corden as British Ambassador for Snotty Bitchery, the fall has been difficult. Corden was supposed to spend his October promoting something called Mammals which will apparently exist on Amazon Prime soon. Instead, he started the month being outed for ‘screaming like crazy’ at a waiter who had the audacity to get his breakfast order wrong at Balthazar, and the story became impossible for him. to escape. (By writing about this, are we actively feeding this narrative like a precious pig? Ya, duh.)
What was supposed to be a simple promotional interview with the New York Time on Thursday, October 20, became a portrait of a celebrity who is simply not sorry for his obnoxious behavior towards people in the service industry. “I didn’t do anything wrong on any level,” Corden told the Time’ Dave Itzkoff. “So why should I ever undo this [interview]? I was there. I understand. I feel so zen about it all. Because I think it’s so silly. I just think it’s below all of us. It’s below you. It is certainly under your publication.
Getting a reputation for mistreating people is one thing. We’ve all heard variations of the “server rule,” where the surest judge of someone’s character is their behavior toward servers. But it’s another thing for the nightmare client to think they’ve done nothing wrong and not even try to pretend to apologize.
To be clear, Corden isn’t denying the things restaurateur Keith McNally claims he said to his staff or the “mean” way he said them. Moreover, he finds nothing in it that deserves an apology or media coverage. His rationale is that rude customer behavior “happens every day. It’s happening in 55,000 restaurants right now. It’s always eggs. It is exactly this frequency of bad behavior that makes it even more note that McNally would refer to him as “the most abusive” of all his bad clients.
On Oct. 21, McNally responded to Corden’s statements in an Instagram post that read, “I have no desire to kick a man when he’s down. Especially the one worth $100 million, but when James Corden said in the NY Times yesterday that he had done nothing wrong, on any level, was he kidding? Or did he deny abusing my servers? Whatever Corden wanted to say, his implication was clear: he didn’t.
It’s like a test question straight out of the LSAT Dumb Celebrity-Drama. Corden doesn’t seem to think yelling at a waiter is “something wrong” because a lot of other people do it, therefore he thinks he didn’t do anything wrong. McNally believes that mistreating staff is presumed and accepted by all parties as “wrong” (of course!) and therefore interprets Corden’s statement as a lie denying the charges. He wants Corden to “live up to his initials Almighty” (oof!) “and be clean.” If the extremely talented actor wants to reclaim the respect he had from all of his fans (all 4 of them) before this incident, then he should at least admit he did the wrong thing.” Before reading this actor’s line as a compliment, McNally probably says Corden is a good liar.
McNally then gives Corden an ultimatum: “If he goes further and apologizes to the 2 servers he insulted, I’ll let him eat free at Balthazar for the next 10 years.” The ball is in Corden’s court to wipe that egg from his face. Hope there is no white in it.
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