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James Corden to replace Ferguson

NEW YORK

British actor James Corden will replace Craig Ferguson as host of “The Late Late Show” on CBS next year, part of a complete overhaul of the network’s late-night talk-show lineup put in motion by the impending retirement of David Letterman.

The network said Monday it had picked Corden, who won a Tony Award in 2012 for his role in the play “One Man, Two Guvnors” and appears in the movie “Begin Again” with Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo. Corden also is in the upcoming film “Into the Woods” with Meryl Streep and Johnny Depp. He hosts a sports-oriented game show in Britain and also acts in and writes the BBC series “The Wrong Mans.”

Ferguson has hosted “The Late Late Show,” which airs at 12:35 a.m., for 10 years. He said he would be leaving shortly after Letterman announced his retirement and he was passed over to be his successor, with Stephen Colbert getting that job sometime next year. Ferguson will leave the show in December, CBS said.

Corden’s hiring recalls that of the Scottish-born Ferguson, who was relatively unknown in the United States before CBS gave him the job. Corden also is another white male in a late-night talk world dominated by them. CBS said it was considering several options for a show when Ferguson said he was leaving; it offered no details on the type of program Corden will do and also did not say where it will be based.

“I can’t wait to get started and will do my very best to make a show America will enjoy,” Corden said.

CBS didn’t say when his show will start. The timing all seems dependent on when Letterman exits “The Late Show” next year and when Colbert begins.

Neil Patrick Harris gets married in Italy

NEW YORK

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West aren’t the only ones who tied the knot this year in Italy. So did Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka.

The “How I Met Your Mother” star and his actor-chef groom were married Saturday in Italy. They’d been dating for 10 years and are parents to 3-year-old twins, Gideon and Harper. The grooms wore custom Tom Ford tuxedos, and Elton John performed at the reception.

“Yup, we put the ‘n’ and ‘d’ in ‘husband,’” Harris tweeted Monday. His publicist later confirmed the news.

Harris, 41, just won a Tony Award for his role in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” He has been in several Broadway productions, including “Assassins,” “Proof” and as the exuberant master of ceremonies in “Cabaret.”

Burtka, 39, played Tulsa in the Bernadette Peters-led revival of “Gypsy,” was seen off-Broadway in “The Play About the Baby” and also is a chef.

“How I Met Your Mother” producer Pam Fryman officiated at the wedding. Same-sex marriages are not allowed in Italy, so it was not legally binding in that country.

The next celebrity couple to pick Italy to marry is George Clooney and human-rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who will tie the knot in Venice in a couple of weeks.

New charge filed against former star of reality show

BATON ROUGE, La.

New rape charges were filed Monday against Will Hayden, former star of the reality-TV show “Sons of Guns.”

The sheriff’s office in East Baton Rouge Parish, La., said they’ve charged Hayden with forcible rape after a woman reported Hayden raped her 22 years ago.

Deputies said the woman was 12 at the time of the purported attack, which she said happened while she was staying with Hayden and his family after her family was displaced by a house fire.

Hayden, 49, initially was booked Aug. 8 on child-molestation charges. He posted $150,000 bond but was re-arrested Aug. 26 on a charge of aggravated rape against the same victim. He was being held with bond set at $250,000 bond when the new forcible-rape charges were filed. Bail on the new charge hasn’t been set.

Associated Press