Probably the worst thing about movie strippers is all of the clothes. [via Clip Nation]

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When you become a Hollywood A-lister, you’re bound to draw old friends and acquaintances out of the woodworks hoping to hitch a ride on your fame train. But when you’re the “Hardest Workin’, Twerkin’, Lay It Down, Flip It, and Reversin’ It Man in Show BizNa$$$ty”, the haters be all up in your grill. That’s the lesson that Magic Mike star Channing Tatum is learning today, after two of his old male stripper peers have accused him of stealing their stories.

According to TMZ, Thomas “Awesome” Austin and London Steele are accusing Tatum of ripping off their life experiences to build the plot for Magic Mike. Hell, according to these Florida dancers, even the name Magic Mike was stolen. Say it ain’t B so, C-Tates!

‘Awesome’ Austin tells TMZ … he and his former male dance buddies are a like a “brotherhood” and, while they’re happy for Channing’s success, they feel betrayed by the actor for not involving any of them in the film.

They claim they took Tatum under their wings when he was a nobody and taught him all their special stripper-moves like “The Hot Seat” — which is featured in the film and Austin says he invented it.

The guys tell us, after seeing parts of the final product they feel slighted … claiming Tatum failed to consult them for accuracy and insist that, without them, he wouldn’t have any material.

Austin explains, Channing was an “amateur” when he met him and says “he only danced for 4 months. How many events could have happened to him?”

Seriously, everyone knows it takes at least 1 year to accumulate enough stories about horny old women losing their wedding rings in a dude’s banana hammock to be able to write a movie. Unless… wait a second… hold on… YES! I knew it, Magic Mike hired one of those “writers” to create a “screenplay”. Is nothing real in Hollywood?

TMZ claims that a rep for Tatum was unavailable, but I was able to get a statement directly from our good friend C-Tates…

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Our buddy Kevin from NextMovie had the simple-but-brilliant idea to go to a strip club and solicit Oscar predictions from the dancers there. Guh, why didn’t *I* think of this? So stupid. If only I’d thought to ask some questions while I was trying to put money in butts. They say desperation is a stinky perfume, but you know what’s even stinkier? Stripper butt. Anyway, choice quotes:

“I liked Moneyball, because it was about money, and balls.”

“Extremely… no, Incredibly Loud and Extremely Noisy, I think.”

When the one stripper was struggling to remember who Viola Davis was, I like to imagine that somewhere, Armond White was screaming ETHEL WATERS!

I love this picture.

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(Sure, Party Dog goes to male strip clubs. It’s a great place to meet horny bitches.)

Channing Tatum was recently off promoting his latest movie, Mumbles the Wigger, when the interviewer asked him about

“It’s absolutely true,” Tatum, now 29, laughs. “I did it for almost a year. I’ve lived a crazy life, for sure.
“It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time and I got out unscathed. It’s nothing I’m ashamed of and I’m not proud of it either. I wanted to talk about it in the beginning of my career but my publicist wouldn’t let me.”
Tatum says he has so much material that could be used as background, he plans to make a film about a male stripper.
“I’ve already got the director picked out. I’d like Nicolas Refn, who did the movie Bronson, to do it because he’s insane for it,” he says.
“It needs to be a crazy film and I think it’s also possible to do a cute, romantic movie.”  [SydneyMorningHerald]

In all seriousness, that sounds like a way better idea than anything he’s been in so far.  I like the semi-autobiographical angle, like Funny People with guys swinging their wieners around or whatever male strippers do. Imagine the drama when the aging veteran top-dog male stripper becomes threatened by the brash newcomer with all the slick moves.  “You’re not fit to wash my cock pouch!” I imagine him yelling.  But then maybe later they find out that they’re not so different after all.

This Channing Tatums stripper video (SFW, more or less) will inevitably be everywhere today, so I might as well post it.  Otherwise you’d probably type in “stamp collections” and Google would ask “Did you mean Channing Tatum shaking his weiner?”  But anyway, as uncovered by Us Weekly, Channing Tatum used to strip in a “Chippendales-style revue called Male Encounter” when he was 18.

The star — who performed under the alias “Chan Crawford” — approached the troupe’s owner London Steele at a now-defunct Florida nightclub about a job.
“He was shy at first, but he really knew how to work the stage,” Steele tells Us, adding that Tatum lip-synched in the act and earned $50 a night (plus tips) during his year-long stint.
“The women went crazy for him!” Steele added.  Unfortunately for them, the revue had a strict no-nudity policy.  Nevertheless, the actor — who wed his Step Up costar Jenna Dewan on July 11 — was so impressive he caught the eye of a female casting agent [yeah, female, sure] who put him in Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” music video. [via Us]

I’m glad they got to this guy first, who says Channings approached him about a job, before Tatums had a chance to spin the story.  Like all models do, you know he’d make it sound like he was just hanging out at the beach or casually playing skee ball with friends when all of a sudden a mysterious stranger offered him money to take his clothes off.  They’re never honest enough to tell the real story, which is  “Well, I was hanging out in front of the mirror shaking my weiner, and I was thinking to myself, ‘Wow, I’m really good at shaking my weiner.’  And then I thought, ‘Hey, I wonder if I could shake my weiner for money.’”

[via WWTDD, Movieline]