Watch: Why Channing Tatum Says He’ll Never Be Cool to His Daughter
The best days of Jax Taylor‘s life may be a little different than what he recalled.
Although the Vanderpump Rules alum had stated over the years that Channing Tatum was his first roommate when he moved to New York City, the Magic Mike star set the record straight.
“Absolutely not,” Channing, 45, asserted on the Oct. 6 episode of SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live. “I don’t think I ever roommated with him.”
The 21 Jump Street actor noted that although he lived with several models at the start of his career, which is fairly common, he didn’t share a room with the reality star.
“They’ll throw you in a model house that has just like a bed,” he explained. “I got kicked out of my first model house. I got in a fight with one of the guys.”
Meanwhile, Jax—who first said that he and Channing bunked during his 2013 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen—previously delved further into their living situation.
“This was around 2002, and those agencies had apartments for models that were coming into town,” The Valley star, who was signed to the same modeling agency as Channing, told Rolling Stonein May 2023. “They’re basically like dorm rooms with bunkbeds. A tiny room with bunk beds and a bathroom. Channing was one of six guys in our room.”
Jax added that Channing got his big break pretty early on, adding, “Now, he got famous real quick. He did this Mountain Dew commercial where he flipped a car.”
“Once he got that job,” he recalled, “he took off.”
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Although Jax might’ve been mistaken about his roommate, he was correct that Channing’s 2002 soft drink commercial put him on the map. In fact, it was the reason Amanda Bynes, who eventually launched his acting career, pushed for him to play opposite her in 2006’s She’s the Man.
“I totally fought for Channing [to get cast in] that movie because he wasn’t famous yet,” the What a Girl Wants actress told Paper Magazine in November 2018. “He’d just done a Mountain Dew commercial and I was like, ‘This guy’s a star—every girl will love him!’ But [the producers] were like, ‘He’s so much older than all of you!’ And I was like, ‘It doesn’t matter! Trust me!'”
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