Sienna Miller’ hunky G.I Joe co-star has secret stripper past
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
SIENNA Miller’s hunky G.I Joe co-star Channing Tatum has a secret past – as a Chippendales-style stripper.
The Hollywood actor drove the ladies wild as a hunky nightclub stripper before hitting the big time.
The star would strip to a skimpy pair of underwear in front of rowdy groups of bachelorette and divorce parties to earn a living.
Tatum, who stripped under the name Chan Crawford, was just out of high school when he joined ‘The Male Encounter’ group as a teenager in Florida in 1999.
Tatum was paid $50 to dance with a group of male performers before taking the stage on his own and stripping down to his smalls.
The group would then go into the audience and perform individual lap dances, for which Tatum could make another $100 in tips.
“When he came to work for me he was pretty green and very inexperienced but he needed the money and took to the show really well,” said dance group owner London Steele.
“He was not known as Channing when he came to work for me, we called him ‘Chan Crawford’, that was his stage name.
“He was a performer, he was one of the dancers, he would go up on stage and dance for the ladies, then he would strip down to a ‘t-back’ and work the crowd a little bit. He would never go nude.
“All of us would come out after he had been on and do the same thing, then when we were all done we would go out into the crowd and work the crowd for tips for 40-minutes and do lap dances.
“The women would stuff money into your underwear when you were out there.
“Chan was one of my A-Team guys, he would go to the best events, shows and parties that we were booked for.
“We would dance for all women crowds, bachelorette parties, divorce parties, birthday parties, anywhere where women were having a good time.
“He got very popular pretty quick, he was a pretty good dancer and I watched him get better on stage as he went along.
“To begin with he was very shy and new, he did not really know what was going on and I had to teach him a lot. But the street dance stuff he picked up on his own.
“He told me that he liked it, but he did mention a couple of times that he would rather keep his clothes on and dance. It is what it is, he had to make money so he had to dance.
“When he first came to me he was a bit on the skinny side and all the guys that worked for me were a lot bigger and were like ‘Oh my God, I cant believe you are going to hire this skinny kid.’
“As it happened the girls really liked the skinny kid, he was one of the favourites at the clubs.”
Source: Splash News
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