Channing Tatum, stripped down and unfiltered! Touting his Oscar-buzzed performance in Foxcatcher, the actor opened up to The Hollywood Reporter in its Nov. 14 issue about his known past as a stripper, and his not-so-known experimentation phase with drugs. Tatum, 34, explained the premise of Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to the 2012 dramedy partially based on his own exotic dancer history. The Warner Bros. movie takes its main character Mike to a stripper convention, similar to one Tatum himself attended in the late ’90s.

Name:Channing Tatum Hometown:Allman, AL About Born in April 1980, Channing Tatum is best known for his role as Tyler Gage in 2006’s Step Up, where he met his costar and now-wife, Jenna Dewan. Tatum got his start as a backup dancer in Ricky Martin’s music video for “She Bangs” after a casting agent spotted him performing under the pseudonym “Chan Crawford” in a Chippendales-style revue called Male Encounter in 1999.

No pain, no gain! Channing Tatum‘s Magic Mike XXL prep wasn’t just about dancing and bro-ing out with his hunky costars. In order to look his absolute best for the sequel, in which he reprises his role as a male stripper, he had to have his body waxed to perfection — something he swore he’d never do again after the first Magic Mike movie in 2012.  Tatum, 34, recounted the painful experience when he stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday, Feb.

An all-time low. Chantel Everett hits her breaking point with Pedro Jimeno after he cancels her phone plan amid their divorce. “The fact that he just turned off my phone pretty much solidifies that he wants nothing to do with me,” the 30-year-old reality star says in Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek at the Monday, September 5, episode of The Family Chantel. In the clip, Chantel reveals that after she arrived back in Atlanta after five days away with friends, she learns that Pedro, 30, has taken another step to sever their connection.

That's going to be one funny baby! It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars Charlie Day and Mary Elizabeth Ellis welcomed a son on Thursday in L.A., her rep confirms to Us Weekly. This is the first child for Day, 35, and Ellis, 32. The Horrible Bosses star and Ellis wed in March 2006.  Russell Wallace Day weighed in at 7ib. 13 oz. and was 21.5 inches long. The duo's It's Always Sunny costar Glenn Howerton also became a father for the first time in September.

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Definitely sounds like a bitter "fact of life" to swallow. Now 86 years old, Charlotte Rae is known and beloved by TV fans as Mrs. Edna Garrett, the widowed, maternal woman looking after Jo, Blair, Tootie and Natalie on classic 80s sitcom The Facts of the Life. But before she became a TV star, the actress dealt with some very serious real-life heartache. As she writes in her memoir The Facts of My Life — currently being shopped around to book publishers — Rae's 25-year marriage to composer John Strauss ended in 1975 with a shocking confession: Shortly after the couple had moved to Los Angeles, Strauss told his wife that he was gay and had cheated on her.

She’s a pogue! Kelsea Ballerini’s time on tour with Kenny Chesney is coming to an end — and she invited boyfriend Chase Stokes on stage to help her celebrate her final show.  The “Heartfirst” singer, 29 — who has been on the road with Chesney, 55, for his Go Back Tour since March — joined the “American Kids” crooner on stage for a celebratory tequila shot at their Charleston, South Carolina, show on Thursday, May 25, with the Outer Banks star, 30, by her side.

Doing her thing! Chelsea Handler celebrated her 45th birthday in the best way possible — skiing with a margarita close by! The Chelsea Lately alum hit the slopes with loved ones at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday, February 25. She posted a video of herself to Instagram that showed her skiing gracefully through the snow while skillfully holding a margarita in her left hand. In her right hand, she held onto a lit marijuana blunt.

Chelsea Handler is the queen of over-sharing. From blunt remarks on her former talk show Chelsea Lately to the scandalous personal anecdotes that fill her five memoirs, Handler is unapologetically herself. In May, the New York Times bestselling author of Uganda Be Kidding Me, and Are You There Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea launched a new talk show, Netflix’s Chelsea. Featuring a loose talk-show format and guests like Gwyneth Paltrow, Megan Fox, and the U.