CHANNING TATUM: DIRTY DANCER EXTRAORDINAIRE! 31 SHIRTLESS PHOTOs, 5 VIDEOs, BIO, PROFILE!

August 11, 2009.
Just as the movie, G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, slithered to the number one spot at the box office, raking in $56.2 million during its weekend release, US Weekly announced that it has a video from 1999 of its star, Channing Tatum, dancing and stripping in a ribald Chippendales-like revue called Male Encounter.
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Photo of a page from US Magazine exposing Channing Tatum's stripper past, which will assuredly only add to his mystique

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Although the editors have so far deprived the public of this alleged video, they did release fuzzy photos/screen-caps from the clip, shown above and below. These pictures are featured in the current issue of US, on newstands now. Write your Congress person today to demand they pressure the magazine to release the entire video—a crucial piece of evidence! As Americans, we have the right to see the whole story!

UPDATE! US Weekly just released the video! Watch it at the bottom of this post!

Closeup photo of the open shirt 1999 stripper group, Male Encounter, with Channing Tatum, top center

US also said Tatum went by the name Chan Crawford and worked for $50 a day plus tips. The pictures show him shaking his booty and gyrating in his underwear. Apparently, the troupe had a policy of no complete nudity. Channing worked the gig for just under a year at a now-defunct South Florida nightclub.

Channing Tatum shakes it in his underwear in this photo from US

“He was really shy at first, but he really knew how to work a stage,” the club’s former owner, London Steele, told the magazine. That engagement actually landed Tatum his first big break—as a featured dancer in Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” video, after the producers caught the stripper act.

Shirtless photo of Channing Tatum frolicking in white underwear

As well as being a being a stripper at the age of 18, PITNB states that Channing, now 29, used to model for high end fashion photo shoots that required that he be nude or semi-nude . . . for artistic purposes. See the naked photo of Channing Tatum at the bottom of this post.

Photo of Channing Tatum in revealing tighty whities, bulging in all the right places

The 6’ 1” Channing Tatum was born on April 26, 1980, in a small town called Cullman, outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Growing up, he was full of energy and somewhat troublesome, so his parents decided to enroll him in different sports, including track and field, baseball, soccer, and football to keep him out of trouble.

Channing Tatum shirtless in skimpy black underwear photo

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In the ninth, grade Channing was sent to military school. It was there that he discovered his passion for football and in his senior year of high school, he was recruited and earned a full athletic college scholarship to a school in West Virginia. Tatum is also skilled in Kung Fu and in Gor-Chor Kung Fu, a form of martial arts, in which he has earned belts in both. Channing later left college and, worked as a construction worker, mortgage broker, and perfume salesman.
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Another revealing photo of a shirtless Channing Tatum in tightie whitey undershorts

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Channing has modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch, Nautica, Gap, Aeropostale, Emporio Armani, and has been featured in television commercials for American Eagle, Pepsi, and some very popular Mountain Dew commercials (See the video at the bottom of this post).
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Photo of Channing Tatum naked, apparently startled

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Although Tatum’s only been acting in movies for less than five years now, he can count 14 films on his portfolio, with several new ones already in progress or scheduled. He credits Step Up, a flick about dancing, as jump-starting his career.
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Hot photo of a barefoot Channing Tatum wearing torn Levis and an open shirt

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Since then, he’s starred in She's the Man (2006), Step Up 2: The Streets (2008), Stop-Loss (2008), Fighting (2009), Public Enemies (2009), and of course G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), to name a few. Dear John (2010) is currently in post-production. The Brotherhood of the Rose (2010), The Eagle of the Ninth (2010), and Pinkville (2011) are in pre-production. Several new movies with him as the star are in development, including Parkour and The Stanford Prison Experiment.
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Picture of a shirtless Channing Tatum sucking on sun glasses from his recent August 2009 GQ photo shoot. Check out the behind the scenes video at the bottom of this article

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Channing recently told the media, “I got crazy lucky. Like, sometimes I think I won the lottery or something. At times it feels like the bottom's gonna fall out. Just 'cause I don't really know how I got here. But I just keep moving forward, and it just keeps getting better and better.“
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Hot photo of Channing Tatum wearing an open leather jacket and low-slung sweat pants

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. Picture of Channing Tatum's shirtless photo portfolio from his days as a Ford model

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An early modeling photo of Channing Tatum as a blond in a black tank top

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Photo of a shirtless Channing Tatum with hand down his white boxers

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Photo montage of Channing Tatum being naughty in his underwear from his college dorm days at Glenville State College in 1998

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Channing Tatum fondling his tighty whitey underwear-clad crotch, 1998 photo

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Photo of Channing Tatum nude naked as a jay-bird in a swamp, highlighting his derriere

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Photo from Channing Tatum's current G.I. Joe movie, just to show he still likes to run around shirtless. Also shown shirtless is co-star Marlon Wayons

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This is it! Enjoy this 1999 Video of Channing Tatum stripping for the Male Encounter Show:

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Watch this video of “Channing Tatum’s vintage Mountain Dew TV commercial”


Check out “7 Things: Channing Tatum—video.NEWSWEEK.com,” wherein he talks about everything but his stint as a male stripper:

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Enjoy the eye candy in this “Channing Tatum Video of the August 2009 GQ Photo Shoot”:

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Watch as a shirtless “Channing Tatum Makes Dirty Dancing Funny with Charlyne Ye (A Video Parody)”:

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