James Corden is sharing a surprising secret about his Carpool Karaoke series!

Although the 46-year-old comedian and actor welcomed a wide variety of popular singers into his passenger seat for the series, Rihanna never made it onto The Late Late Show with James Corden‘s musical segment.

According to James, that’s not because he didn’t invite the 37-year-old “Work” singer onto the show.

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James spoke to Entertainment Tonight at the Smurfs premiere about his co-star. At the premiere, he revealed that he invited Rihanna onto Carpool Karaoke and explained why she never made it onto the show!

“I tried for eight years to get Rihanna to do a Carpool Karaoke,” James recalled and said that instead of getting her on his show, he got to sing a duet with her in the Smurfs movie.

“She would always say to me, ‘When the new record is out.’ And then I finished the show before that record came out,” James said and joked that he would reboot the series for one week if Rihanna would finally agree to be a guest.

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