I think you would have had to have been living under a rock for these past two weeks to not have heard about the trouble that James Corden has recently been getting into with New York restaurant Balthazar and then for ripping off a Ricky Gervais joke, but thankfully Jeremy Clarkson has decided to come to his rescue and give him some tips about rehabilitating his character.

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Not really sure if Clarkson is the best person to help Corden with this – pretty sure Clarkson punched a producer who cooked his steak wrong and didn’t really face any repercussions as he just moved his show to Amazon for more money and is still really famous – but he’s the man that he’s getting. Clarkson was writing in his column in The Times when he said the following:

When everyone always sends a car to pick you up and there are hot and cold running assistants, eager to indulge your every whim, it’s very easy to become a monster.

You start to think that you don’t ever have to do anything for yourself, or meet anyone who might be dull. One of my friends, who’s in a very successful band, calls this ‘c*** flu’.

Another, who’s in an even more successful band, tells me that to try and normalise themselves after a tour, he and his bandmates would rent a house, on their own, for two weeks, and they’d do all their own cooking and washing before going home to their families.

Soon though, he’s coming back to the UK to become an actor again.

This is a good thing. He’s far better at being someone else than he is at being himself.

I saw him once in One Man, Two Guvnors and he was fantastic. Much better than he is as a presenter.

But if he wants to be liked when he gets here, he should stop off on the way home in a place where he isn’t known — Dortmund perhaps — and spend a couple of months putting his own bins out and making his own bed.

It worked for me. Well, it would have done if I’d tried it.

You know some of that advice isn’t actually that bad, but the way that Clarkson delivers it in his usual smugger than thou manner makes it come across like he’s definitely still suffering from ‘c*** flu’ himself. Prick.

As for Corden, it doesn’t really seem like he cares what people think of him and just like Clarkson he can be a dickhead to whoever he wants and will probably still get paid loads and do whatever he wants as well. Go figure.

For more of the same, check out all these stories of James Corden being a massive dickhead to people out there. Go figure.