James Corden has verbal altercation with airline employee after tough flight – and fellow fliers defend him
nypost.comfor being “rude” to staff at Balthazar restaurant, leading to famed Big Apple restaurateur Keith McNally banning him from the downtown hotspot over his behavior.
Spice Girl Mel B has also referred to Corden as “the biggest d–head I’ve ever met.” But, according to The Daily Mail, fellow passengers on Corden’s flight claim that the former talk show host was helpfully advocating for them all when the plane was forced to make an emergency stop in the Portuguese city after a mechanical problem.
Fellow passenger Vanessa told Metro of the mid-flight ordeal: “It was something along the lines of, “Gather your possessions as best you can, take off your shoes, and when you’re told to by the airplane staff, please adopt the brace position and when we land if you’re able, please find your nearest emergency exit and vacate the plane.”Per her account, passengers were told they no longer had to brace, but they still spent three hours on the tarmac in Lisbon before the plane was taken out of service.
Corden, who had to publicly apologize for his conduct at Balthazar after owner Keith McNally called him a “tiny cretin of a man” and “the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago,” allegedly kept passengers entertained during this tedious ordeal, according to Vanessa. “He walked up and down the aisles talking to people, and let everybody take a selfie with him,” she said.She added, “I made a joke and went, ‘Oh if we’re all going to die.
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