Dominic Cooper: 'I often cuddle up with James'

Dominic Cooper: 'I often cuddle up with James'
Dominic Cooper: 'I often cuddle up with James' (Image credit: PA Archive/Press Association Ima)

Dominic Cooper has revealed he's not the untidy flatmate James Corden makes him out to be. The pair - who starred together in The History Boys - live together in London, and the Mamma Mia! star (pictured right) claimed the Gavin And Stacey actor has given him a bad reputation. "He's given the impression to the neighbours, and to various people he's spoken to, that I'm the messy one, but I'd like to adjust this comment - it's not me! I'm the nice tidy person that's nice to live next to," he said on GMTV. "The neighbours are terrified of me because each time I go away, James blames the noise and the horrendous behaviour on me." Dominic, who is dating Amanda Seyfried, admitted he has a special bond with James. "I don't know what to do without him. I often find him cuddled up next to me in the early hours of the morning. It's very secure. It's all one needs, a nice good cuddle-up, and then everything will be alright," he joked. "It's a bit sad, we can't get away from each other. I should have moved out, we should have gone our separate ways. We had a year together and... I'm now the teenage boy in his house living upstairs in an absolute state of chaos. But we have an awful lot of fun." He added: "There's going to be terrible separation anxiety when we finally do part."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.