We’ve all fantasized about the fact that Channing Tatum got his start as a stripper, but we assumed watching him strut his stuff in Magic Mike and its upcoming sequel was the closest we’d ever come to seeing him in all his gyrating glory.
But thanks to the magic of the internet, a video has surfaced of an 18-year-old Tatum, going by the stage name Chan Crawford, doing his best late ’90s hip-hop inspired seduction ballet.
And OK, we may have been secretly wishing for something like this to appear, but something about seeing a teenager grinding up and down a bunch of middle-aged women kind of makes the whole thing a lot less sexy.
Also, what 18-year-old looks like that?! Come on.
Here’s the video:
Kenover
I just threw up a little in my mouth.
VampDC
ehhh anyone else think he’s milking this stripping thing very far.
C’mon dude, you could be a good actor.
QJ201
Looks like half the white guys stripping or go-go “dancing” in NYC.
tardis
This video has been on YouTube for a long time. @VampDC: No, not at all. He’s open about his past.
Chris
He parlayed his physique into a movie career. Not the first person to do that; not the last.
NoCagada
YAWN
blackberry finn
Who are gay men to judge what straight women like? lol But he’s hotter now, a dreamboat
Billy Budd
Yes, he is hotter now.
Doughosier
He was the hottest man alive then. No wonder he became a movie star.
gauty
@blackberry finn: @Billy Budd: I’m sorry, are you both blind? He’s turned into the caricatural bloated used-to-be hot suburban high school jock. He used to have a cute face, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he goes the way of Depp or Pitt and just turns into an unrecognizable swole-faced douchenozzle.
lykeitiz
Lame video? Sure. But he could still Channing on my Tatum….
michaelj72
he could afford to lose a bit of weight these days but he’s still smoking…..I liked him more if he were a tad thinner than he is now, and more like in this vid (yeah he’s pretty thin at 18 years old, but of course that was 16 years ago)…..and he’s got a modicum of talent as an actor, not a bad combo.
frubino
is pretty boy, but the dance was terrible
Keebler ILF
Didn’t he recently admit to having an alcohol problem? Thus the bloated face
nowadays.
But yeah, this video has been out for over a year now.
PS: I haven’t seen 22 Jump Street yet, but I surprisingly
cracked up during 21 Jump street.
I also haven’t seen Magic Mike yet.
StudioTodd
Fuck you, US Weekly…who posts a video featuring strippers and then puts censor bugs all over it? If a person did not want to see what you’re censoring, they wouldn’t have clicked on a stripper video.