From ‘Friends’ to Kardashians: How James Corden and Ben Winston’s Fulwell 73 Became a Go-To Production House in Hollywood

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Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentKim Kardashian owes Ben Winston a massage.In 2021, Winston was ready to take a vacation.

His company, Fulwell 73, had just wrapped production on HBO Max’s highly anticipated “Friends” reunion and the Grammy Awards, not to mention James Corden’s “Late Late Show,” which has been airing on CBS since 2015 with five episodes per week.Earlier last year, Corden, one of Winston’s producing partners, had bumped into Kris Jenner in Palm Springs, where they both own second homes.

Corden, already friendly with Jenner, who had been a guest on his show, spoke to the momager about her family’s new Hulu reality show, which would follow 20 ground-breaking seasons of E!’s “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” Jenner told Corden she was just starting to take meetings with production companies.

They set up a Zoom and he bought her a pair of Gucci pajamas as a thank you gift. “I said, ‘I can’t tell you how much Ben and I appreciate the opportunity to even be in your orbit, and if nothing ever happens, it was a joy just to talk to you all,’” Corden shares.“I thought, ‘Well, nothing will come of this, but it was fun to meet all the Kardashians on a Zoom,’ ” Winston recalls. “That was more fun than my next meeting.”For months, Winston, Corden and their fellow partners at Fulwell 73, Leo Pearlman, Ben Turner and Gabe Turner, never heard a thing.