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Saturday, 24 September 2011

James Corden: I'm glad I never had sex with Lily Allen - I'd have been awful in bed

Gavin & Stacey star has no regrets

Lily Allen and James Corden became friends after meeting at The History Boys premiere

James Corden once had a huge crush on Lily Allen and admits he was desperate to sleep with her.

The comedian thought his luck was in when he was drinking round her house one evening and she asked him to go upstairs.

'Lily let out a yawn, looked at me and said: "I'm going to bed now, what about you?"' reveals James, 33.

'My heart stopped. This was it. After all this time, all the false dawns.

'So she walked up the stairs with me padding behind, my mouth dry, my stomach churning, my hands sweating - I was all kinds of sexy.'

But when Lily, 26, directed James to the spare room and gave him a peck on the cheek goodnight, he admits he felt like a 'douche-bag'.

Looking back, James, who's now engaged to Julia Carey, is happy nothing more happened that evening.

'I like Lily very much and know if push came to shove that night, I'd have been awful in bed,' he writes in his autobiography.

'I would've been so nervous that nothing - and I do mean nothing - would've happened.

'So I want to thank Lily for sparing a lovesick fool that kind of embarrassment.'

Esme Riley

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