This Life of Mine with James Corden

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Kerry Washington Mar 10, 2026

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Kerry Washington is an Emmy award winning actor whose career is vast and varied.

She’s starred on Broadway, she's been in countless movies, some our favourite movies, including Save the Last Dance, Ray, The Last King of Scotland, Django Unchained. She's instantly recognizable from playing everybody's favourite fixer, Olivia Pope on Scandal.

Kerry’s Picks:

Place- Being in the water

Film- Into the Woods

Person Phil Stutz, therapist

Music- Lovely Day, Bill Withers

Possession- A collection of shells from her honeymoon in Zanzibar

Memory- Seaworld as a child

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Barry Keoghan Mar 03, 2026

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Barry Keoghan is an actor hailing from Ireland, who is surely one of the most in-demand names in the industry right now.

His work on Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of A Sacred Deer introduced him onto the global stage, but it was his Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning turn in The Banshees of Inisherin that really catapulted him to fame, and the leading role in the most talked about film of 2023, Saltburn.

His journey into acting has been far from ordinary, and perhaps that explains his success in bringing extraordinary roles onto the screen.

Barry’s Picks:

MOVIE – COOL HAND LUKE

MEMORY – WATCHING MOVIES AT GRANNY’S HOUSE

PLACE - ACHILL ISLAND IN COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND

PERSON – MICHAEL BOSSMAN

MUSIC – CANTER by GERRY CINNAMON

POSSESSION – A BRACELET WITH MUM’S NAME ON IT

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Denzel Washington Feb 24, 2026

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Denzel Washington is a Tony Award winner, a two time Academy Award winning actor, producer, director, and quite frankly, a Hollywood icon.

He has starred in some of the biggest movies of the past 35 years, including American Gangster, Philadelphia, The Pelican Brief, and The Equalizer Trilogy. His films have grossed over $3bn .

There's also his extensive work on the stage, including Fences, The Iceman Cometh and his much anticipated return to Broadway in Othello opposite Jake Gyllenhaal.

It will surprise no one that the New York Times named him as the greatest actor of the 21st century.

Denzel’s Selections:

PLACE: Mount Vernon, New York.

MOVIE: Shaft.

MEMORY: Seeing the face of God.

PERSON: Wife, Pauletta

MUSIC: Soulful Strut by Young-Holt Unlimited.

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Niecy Nash-Betts Feb 17, 2026

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Niecy Nash-Betts is an actor, TV host, author, producer, director, and kitchen beautician.

After years spent playing comedic roles in The Bernie Mac Show and Reno 911!, it was in her 40s that she finally landed the dramatic roles she’d spent years working towards, in films such as the Oscar nominated Selma, TV shows Getting On, and When They See Us.

Now in her 50s she’s really coming into her own, making history as one half of the first same sex couple to grace the cover of Essence magazine, and winning an Emmy for her role in one of Netflix’s most watched series of all time, Dahmer.

Niecy’s Selections:

MOVIE – SPARKLE (1976)

POSSESSION – PENDANT

PERSON – HER MOTHER

PLACE – HER STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME

MUSIC – CATCH ME BY JESSICA BETTS

MEMORY – HER (3RD) WEDDING

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Kris Jenner Feb 10, 2026

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Kris Jenner sits at the helm of a dynasty that dominates TV, social media, fashion, skincare, Tequila, and so much more. She is one of the most successful, influential, and powerful figures in the media industry, featuring in and overseeing multiple television shows, managing the careers of five of the planet's biggest stars, and still finding time for an afternoon martini.

She's shared pretty much every inch of her life with us. The incredible highs, some shattering lows, but what she and her family have created has, without question, revolutionized what it means when we talk about a brand and popular culture is forever changed by her very existence.

Kris’s Selections:

Possession - Stuffed monkey, Annabelle

Memory- Having her first baby, Kourtney

Place- Capri in Italy

Person, Cici Bussey

Music- Fly me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra

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Yuval Noah Harari Feb 03, 2026

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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and one of the most successful non-fiction authors of recent times. His books have sold over forty-five million copies, and fans of his work include some of the most powerful people on the planet.

When he’s not writing bestsellers and influencing global conversations, he’s a history lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

For anyone who’s ever lain awake at night wondering what on earth the future holds for humanity, Yuval Noah Harari may have the answers.

Selections:

MUSIC – DURAN DURAN - SAVE A PRAYER (1982)

MEMORY – SINKING OF THE HMS SHEFFIELD, FALKLANDS WAR (1982)

PERSON – CHARLES DARWIN

BOOK – GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL BY JARED DIAMOND (1997)

PLACE - THE DHAMMA DIPA MEDITATION CENTER, UK

POSSESSION – MORNING PORRIDGE POT

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Brandi Carlile Jan 27, 2026

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Brandi Carlile is a singer, song-writer, and producer, whose voice and musicianship has won her critical acclaim as well as ten Grammys.

It could have been such a different story – aged four her heart stopped multiple times while she was in a coma after contracting meningitis. When she finally left hospital her family knew she was saved for a reason…

Perhaps that’s why she hasn’t only used her voice for singing, choosing to speak out on multiple issues, using her platform to great effect and raising millions for her Looking Out foundation, which is why Brandi and her wife are regularly named as Women who are Changing the World.

Brandi’s Selections:

MEMORY – Being refused baptism as a teenager

PERSON – Sir Elton John

MUSIC – The Mother by Brandi Carlile

POSSESSION – Her house in Washington state

MOVIE – The Never-Ending Story

PLACE – Neah Bay on the Makah Reservation, WA

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Minnie Driver Jan 20, 2026

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Minnie Driver is an Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe nominated British actor, who first appeared on our screens in 90s classics such as Circle of Friends, Sleepers, and Good Will Hunting.

She’s also an author, releasing her excellent memoir Managing Expectations in 2022, and has a podcast based on Proust’s Questionnaire called Minnie Questions, with guests including Courtney Cox, Debbie Harry, and Cindy Crawford.

Minnie’s Picks:

MUSIC - TIDAL WAVE by BOMB THE BASS (1995)

FILM – GROSSE POINT BLANK (1997)

MEMORY – NOT GETTING TO SING AT THE OSCARS

POSSESSION – HER HOUSE

PLACE - THE POINT WHERE SHE SURFS

PERSON – HER SON HENRY

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Jeremy Renner Jan 13, 2026

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In the aftermath of Jeremy Renner’s horrific snow-plough accident he sits down with James to reflect on his road to recovery and the new perspective on life earned from being so close to death.

In this episode the actor famous for roles in The Hurt Locker, Dahmer and playing Hawkeye in The Avengers looks back at childhood memories in Yosemite, a film which is guaranteed to improve your mood and gets a surprise from two very special friends. Plus, he reveals which boyband he was asked to try-out for and opens up about life before fame – when he lived on diet of 99c donuts, without water or electricity, resorting to brushing his teeth at Starbucks en route to The Oscars.

Jeremy’s selections:

Possession – His titanium implants

Place – Lake Tahoe

Memory – Hiking with his father in Yosemite

Movie – The Jungle Book

Person – Brian Gerraghty & Anthony Mackie

Music – Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata

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Bryan Cranston Jan 06, 2026

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Bryan Cranston spent the first 20 years of his career acting in commercials, TV soaps, playing guest roles on iconic shows such as Matlock, Baywatch and Seinfeld. It wasn't till his 40s when he started to see real success, when he was cast in the role of Hal on the much loved family comedy Malcolm in the Middle. But it was in his 50s that he took on the character that would raise his career to a whole new level and win him six Emmys, in the process playing Walter White in the astonishingly good Breaking Bad. His career has been nothing short of incredible. His work in the theater has brought him great acclaim, with not one but two Tony Awards, and recently he's spoken very openly about his want to perhaps retire from acting, at least for a moment.

BRYAN’S SELECTIONS:

MOVIE – Cat Ballou (1966)

PERSON – Mrs Betsy Crawford

POSSESSION – HONDA 550CC BIKE

PLACE – Seafront house in Los Angeles

MEMORY – (Almost) asking a girl to go steady

MUSIC – Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

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