February 7, 2012 | Celeb Watch

Channing Tatum does SNL

This past weekend, the very sexy Channing Tatum hosted Saturday Night Live, and of course he got a chance to promote his upcoming stripper movie, Magic Mike.

Tatum actually has a very real background as a male exotic dancer, and it was his personal experience that became the fodder for the movie, not to mention the entire episode of SNL.

“We were sitting over a beer and I told [Steven Soderbergh] that I was a stripper for eight months when I was nineteen,” Tatum said. “And he said that would be a great movie. And I said, ‘well I want to make a movie out of it.’ And he said, ‘you should write it.’

"Cut to three or four months later, I read an interview where he said that he would be willing to direct. I called him up and said, ‘how much bullshit is in this article?’ He was like, ‘I’m as serious as a bone spur, we should sit down.’ And we sat down…at Carney’s over a hot dog ironically enough. And we decided to do it.”

He got a chance to talk about his stripper past in the opening monologue. Check it out after the jump ...