Harry Styles and Will Ferrell set to be the FINAL guests for The Late Late Show with James Corden

Just days after The Late Late Show debunked rumors that One Direction would be reuniting for the show’s final episode, the CBS late night talk show confirmed that Harry Styles would be one of its final guests alongside Will Ferrell.

Gossip outlet DeuxMoi revealed that Styles, 29, would reunite with his One Direction bandmates Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik for the first time in eight years.

The official Late Late Show Twitter debunked the report, saying, “Nobody loves the boys more than we do…but this story just isn’t true.”

“What is true is that we have scheduled a brilliant 2-hour finale at 10pm on April 27th to celebrate 8 years of #LateLateShow,” the statement concluded.

CBS announced Monday that Styles and Ferrell — who both have long histories with the show — will be the final guests on the final regular episode, following a primetime special.

Styles first appeared on The Late Late Show as part of One Direction on the 30th episode of the show’s first season in 2015.

The band returned in its second season in 2016, while also appearing in two Carpool Karaoke segments.

Styles returned solo for a full week of shows in the third season in 2017, along with two solo appearances in season 4.

He also returned for episodes in Season 5 and Season 6 before making his last appearance in Season 8 last year.

Ferrell and his Get Hard co-star Kevin Hart guest starred on the show’s third episode during its premiere week in March 2015.

He returned again in season 4 and season 5 in 2018 and he also appeared in Corden’s Homefest during the COVID-19 pandemic.

His last performance was in June 2020 to promote his film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

Two of the last three Carpool Karaoke segments have also been announced, Blackpink and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, with a final Carpool guest to be announced.

There will also be an “epic final Crosswalk: The Musical performance” in the show’s final weeks.

The show’s final two weeks’ guests also include Tom Cruise, Billie Eilish, Josh Gad, Jennifer Garner, Mila Kunis, Seth Meyers, Billy Porter, Lisa Kudrow, Sharon Stone and Natalie Portman.

Just hours before the series finale, CBS will air the one-hour special The Last Last Late Late Late Show with James Corden Carpool Karaoke Special, which will air at 10 PM ET before the series finale at 12:37 AM ET.

Tom Cruise will also join Corden for one last over-the-top sketch that will debut during the primetime special.

Corden revealed during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show that a conversation with his son Max led him to leave the late night talk show and move his family back to the UK.

“I was filming on a Sunday and I came downstairs, it was about six in the morning and my son, who was ten at the time, was sitting on the stairs and he said, ‘Are you working today?’ and I said, “I am.”

“He said, ‘I thought, well, it’s Sunday,’ and I said, ‘I know buddy, but this schedule is just everywhere.

“We’ve just got to get it done because we’ve only got a tiny bit of time before we have to go back and do the show,” and his face just sort of slumped,” Corden said.

“I got in the car and called my wife Jules and I said, ‘I’ve realized, at best, we’ve got six more summers where Max is, even remotely wants to be near us and I can waste no other.” Corden explained.

“So the choice was really to go, ‘If I really want to do this other job, it can’t be at the expense of our kids, our family,’ which is really all it boils down to,” Corden added.