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James Corden to alter 'Spill Your Guts' segment after getting flak for insensitive comments on Asian food

"The Late Late Show" host James Corden has vowed to alter the "Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts" segment after getting called out for making fun of Asian food.

Earlier this month, California resident Kim Saira started a petition

 to "completely change the food" on the show or "remove the segment entirely."

According to an Insider report, Corden addressed the issue in a recent interview with Howard Stern.

"We heard that story, and the next time we do that bit, we absolutely won't involve or use any of those foods," the host said. "Our show is a show about joy and light and love, we don't want to make a show to upset anybody."

Corden didn't say anything specific about the planned changes, but cited a previous episode as an example.

"In the same way that when we played it with Anna Wintour, we gave her a pizza covered in cheeseburgers. Do you know what I mean?" he said.

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In an email to Today, Saira said she was "disappointed" with Corden's response.

"I think that it is imperative for his hundreds of thousands of viewers to understand the harm that mocking these foods, rooted in Asian cultures, has on Asian people who still eat them," she said.

"Besides that, I still think he should be donating to Asian organizations as well. I'm still looking forward to whether he will address this publicly and apologize," she added.

Saira started the petition after seeing a clip of Corden and Jimmy Kimmel reacting to balut and other Asian food in a 2016 episode.

In the video, Corden presented balut and other exotic food like thousand-year-old egg as a consequence for Kimmel if he refuses to answer a question.

"Wow, it all looks so terrible," Kimmel said, adding that it "doesn't smell good." Corden, meanwhile, called the food "really disgusting" and "horrific."

—Franchesca Viernes/MGP, GMA News