New York Strip Clubs: Cullman native Channing Tatum reveals his softer side in ‘Dear John’
Cullman native Channing Tatum, who is shown here with Amanda Seyfried in a scene from “Dear John,” tried his hand at everything from being a construction worker to a mortgage broker to a male stripper before becoming an actor. “Man, I’ve had a crazy life,” Tatum says. “I’m 29 years old, and I’ve met millionaires, billionaires, and I’ve met homeless people and everything in between.” (Everett Collection)
Two years ago, Channing Tatum played a small-town military hero who comes to blows with his best buddy in the Iraq War drama “Stop-Loss.”
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After dropping out of Glenville State College in West Virginia, he had a series of odd jobs as a construction worker, mortgage broker and male stripper before he moved to Miami, hooked up with a modeling agency and appeared in high-profile print ads for Abercrombie & Fitch and The Gap and TV spots for Pepsi and Mountain Dew.
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