James Corden will change his Spill Your Guts segment after a petition claimed it showed “anti-Asian racism.” He said: “Our show is a show about joy and light and love, we don’t want to make a show to upset anybody.”
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There will be some changes on The Late Late Show with James Corden, as his Spill Your Guts segment has received a petition for anti-Asian racism.
The segment had celebrities choose between eating different food on a platter or answer uncomfortable questions.
TikTok user Kim Saira has led the charge to change the segment, with a Change.org creating a petition where she’s calling for CBS to remove the segment. It gathered over 45,000 signatures.
“The foods that are presented are meant to be ‘gross,’ as they are supposed to encourage the guest to answer his questions instead. However, many of the foods that he presents to his guests are actually from different Asian cultures. He’s presented foods such as balut, century old eggs, and chicken feet, and which are often regularly eaten by Asian people,” she wrote.
“He’s openly called these foods ‘really disgusting,’ and ‘horrific.’”
In an interview with Howard Stern, James said he heard about the petition, and they are planning on changing the segment.
“We heard that story, and the next time we do that bit, we absolutely won’t involve or use any of those foods.”
“As you said at the start, our show is a show about joy and light and love, we don’t want to make a show to upset anybody. In the same way that when we played it with Anna Wintour, we gave her a pizza covered in cheeseburgers.”
“We completely understand. It’s not for us to determine whether somebody’s upset or hurt about something … all we can do is go, ‘All right, we get it, we won’t do that.’ “
