CHANNING TATUM performed a striptease on Saturday Night Live when he hosted the NBC TV show over the weekend.

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We know he used to be a stripper in a past life, and it looked like he wanted to pay tribute to the profession that gave him his start in show business…

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Hence, his nearly R-rated performance. We wished he could’ve taken off his pants too, but this is television. Let’s wait for “Magic Mike,” the upcoming stripper drama based on his experience dancing full Monty, and where we’ll probably see stuff that’d sear our eyeballs to kingdom come…

RACHEL MCADAMS recently revealed to Hollywood news that CHANNING TATUM played a practical joke on her during the filming of “The Vow”… and it involves a prosthetic penis.

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Rachel, who plays a woman who suffers from amnesia after getting into a car accident, got quite a surprise while she was filming a nude scene for “The Vow” with her onscreen husband, Channing. She tells Stella magazine:

Channing got the props department to make a prosthetic, um, member.”

American Gladiator GINA CARANO called CHANNING TATUM a “p*ssy” and he smashed a bottle on her face to get even.

Ouch. Did he have to act like a real “p*ssy” just because some mixed martial arts broad called him one?

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“G.I. Joe’s” CHANNING TATUM covered the February 2012 issue of Details Magazine where he reveals he didn’t go to acting school, so everything he knows, he learned on set.

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The 31-year-old star of “Step Up” and “Dear John” famously began his showbiz career as an exotic dancer at a local Alabama nightclub, then as a dancer in Ricky Martin‘s “She Bangs” music video. After making his rather obscure mark as a male model, and as a hunky, if somewhat wooden, strong and silent-type action hero, Channing‘s appearing in a romantic drama with Rachel McAdams in “The Vow.” And what does Channing Tatum say about how far he’s come?

Entertainment news says RACHEL MCADAMS (“The Notebook”) and CHANNING TATUM (“”G.I. Joe”) are doing a love story on amnesia….bring on the cheese! The plot centers on a young married couple whose car is rear-ended by a truck while they’re making out inside it. Rachel gets amnesia and can’t remember getting married at all. It’s all up to a stalwart Tatum to bring back the love…

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ALEX PETTYFER has just taken on a role that’s bound to make a few jaws drop—he’s going to be playing a male stripper! According to recent entertainment news, Alex will be playing a young CHANNING TATUM in a movie based on the latter’s life back when he was an exotic dancer.

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The film will be directed by Steven Soderbergh and will follow Channing’s experiences back when he was a 19-year old stripper.