![]() ![]() ![]() Contrary to what the urban legend is, lots of the queens in AOL chat rooms, A&F pays their models, they are not solicited in malls or in parking lots. 'I have an agent and my agent got me that contract. ![]() 'That's a crock of shit,' says Channing, when I ask him how he got involved with A&F. The models got free ink and A&F got hot, young, tight-assed boys. According to the rumor mill, A&F used their models as slave laborers. I love modeling but acting is a great distraction.'Īs rumors abounded in the late '90s and early '00s, A&F solicited models on the street and didn't pay them. I can see myself, at least part of the time, acting. I did an episode of CSI, this season-I shot it after the movie-but the movie was the fucking bomb. 'I love modeling,' he chimes, sipping a bottle of Evian, and then picking at a fruit plate. He has, it seems, become more civilized during the plethora of ad campaigns in which he has appeared, clothed, ( sadly ) -in the latest, most popular U.S. He might still be weathered and tanned, i.e., beautiful, 'fuck-me,' white trash, but the evolutionary process has taken hold. 'And I was the one who was always spending as much time as I possibly could down by the bayous, against the advice and, dare I say, orders of my Nana.'Ĭhanning Tatum has come a long way from the bayous. 'There were ( and still are ) alligators, rattlesnakes, and Jesus knows what else in those swamps,' he laughs. But my Nana would always say to me, 'Oh, Channing,' when she knew I was feeding her a line of bullshit.'Īnd what were those lines of bullshit? Well, for starters, he was not supposed to be playing in the bayous. I was definitely an outdoors type of boy, getting into trouble all the time. 'I was born in Alabama, raised in the summers by my grandparents, Nana and Papa, in Mississippi and then my parents decided to move to Mississippi to be closer to my grandparents. ![]() 'Yeah, I am white trash, by blood,' he says, his piercing blue eyes, glowing, trying to convey with his looks and charisma that the trash is long gone. He is, what many, including him, would describe as 'white trash.' You see, Channing is not a native New Yorker, nor Los Angelino. 'How are you? Channing Tatum,' he says, as polite as he can be, upon entering the suite in which we share a breakfast on a recent Sunday morning at the Drake Hotel, during the hustling and bustling Christmas shopping season in the Big Apple. Standing at 6'1' tall, the ( almost ) shaved headed, 24-year-old, with the most well-defined jaw I have ever seen, greets me with an outstretched hand, clenching mine firmly, staring directly into my eyes. It's quite unusual for male print and television models to make the transition to the big screen, and even more surprising when they can actually, well, um, 'act.' Jackson and Ashanti in January's best movie, Coach Carter ( now playing ). You may not have known his name, but now that you do, it will be hard to forget-the boy's face and body has graced the pages of virtually every glossy magazine in the world, ( Nautica, Aeropostale, Dolce & Gabbana and A&F ad campaigns ), and on television in one of Mountain Dew's most popular commercials, 'Drive'-now that he is co-starring with Samuel L. And, Channing Tatum is his birth name, not just some wild name thought up in a duplicitous publicist's office. And, no, he is not in any way related to Carol Channing ( or Tatum O'Neal ). This article shared 4818 times since Wed Jan 19, 2005Ĭhanning who? Yes, Channing is his first name, and Tatum is his last. ![]()
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