James Corden Almost Named His Newborn Daughter ‘Beyonce’ — LOL!

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James Corden returned to host The Late Late Show after welcoming his newborn daughter on Tuesday. “Very unexpectedly, my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. We’re over the moon. It’s been a whirlwind 48 hours. It really has,” he said.

“This all started over the weekend my wife started experiencing some sort of pain in her stomach, we checked it out. We thought it had gone away and we went into a routine check-up on Tuesday and suddenly the doctors turn to us and say, ‘Oh no this is probably happening today and this baby could arrive in the next few hours.’ ”

He added: “A complete shock, we were unprepared. It’s a really terrible thing and your wife is 8½-months pregnant and the doctor is talking to her about very serious things about giving birth and there’s really no easy way to bring up the fact that you have to tape a show that day. Take my word for it you can’t say that without sounding like a d—. I was like, ‘When you say how likely, like how likely?’ She said, ‘Well you just have to wait and see.’ But I was like, ‘Owen Wilson and Seal are on the way to the show, how likely?’ ‘Well, very likely,’ So I did what I always do in my life at a time of crisis – I call Harry Styles. And God bless him for filling in for me.”

“After the baby was born, anyone who’s been in this situation will know, we were both crying, I was crying my eyes out, my wife’s crying her eyes out, the baby’s crying and the doctor asked about her name and I don’t know why I said it and I looked at the doctor and said, ‘We’re going to call her Beyoncé.’ My wife did not think that was funny,” he continued.