Channing Tatumis mourning the death of his childhood friend.“My very first best friend Corey Vaughn left this world for the next this Tuesday the 21st. Man there’s so much to say,” the actor, 38, shared in a statement on Instagram and Twitter Thursday.“I’ll never forget his crazy ass and how he stuck up for and protected me when I first moved to Mississippi. He’d a fought anybody. All the laughs and trouble we go in,” Tatum recalled of his family moving to Pascagoula when was 6 years old....

Channing Tatumisn’t exactly known fornotbeing in shape, but he insists he feels like “a completely new person” in terms of his fitness these days.During a Wednesday appearance onThe Tonight Showto promote his first children’s book,The One and Only Sparkella,out now, the 41-year-old actor told hostJimmy Fallonthat his transformation during theCOVID-19 pandemicdidn’t come right away.“For the first week or two weeks, I definitely was just drinking beers and riding dirt bikes but I was like, ‘I can’t do this for two months....

After taking a four-year break from acting,Channing Tatumis back with a full slate of 2022 projects. “I’m just [living] in the moment of it,” Tatum, 41, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue of his feelings on his career. “I don’t have this grand plan, I don’t think I ever really did have a grand plan. Before I took some time off, I was on a pace that just was untenable. It was not something that I could really sustain....

Photo: channing tatum/instagram “I had a weekend with Evie outside of L.A. at this little farm cabin sort of thing where we go and spend our weekends when we can,” he explains. “She wanted to make a birdhouse, which is the most dad-daughter thing you can do. But she didn’t just go, ‘Dad, I want to make a birdhouse.’ She’s like, ‘I know how to make the birdhouse.’ And I said, ‘Are you sure?...

Photo: Channing Tatum Instagram Channing Tatumis opening up about life as a single dad. While appearing onTODAY with Hoda and Jenna, theMagic Mike’s Last Danceactor, 43, discussed his latest children’s book,The One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lieand how the books helped him as a parent to daughter Everly, 10, whom he shares with ex-wifeJenna Dewan, 42. He added, “When I knew I was going to have a kid, I was like, ‘Alright, I’m probably going to be the parent — I plan to be the parent — who was probably going to get her in more trouble than I kept her out of....

Channing Tatumthinks girlfriendJessie Jis a “snack!” On Monday, Jessie shared a black and white Instagram photo of herself wearing a flowing black dress and dancing in a field. “This picture is the opposite of my mood,” she captioned the sweet snap. “Stressy J 😂 Doing knee slides through my house trying to pack at the speed of light. You know when you have SOOOO much to do you laugh at yourself then start to cry and then laugh again and then cry more....

Photo: Channing Tatum/Instagram Channing Tatumis smiling for somebody special behind the camera!The 41-year-old actor posted a shirtless black-and-white snap of himself toInstagramSunday, crediting his daughter Everly, 8, as the photographer.“Photo credit: Everly Tatum,” he wrote of the Polaroid-like photo, in which he flashed an easy smile and tattoo on his bicep.The star’s friends and followers celebrated the budding photographer’s work, with actor Adam Rodriguez writing, “Kids take the best pictures of parents....

Channing Tatum‘s 5-year-old daughterEverlyis marching to the beat of her own drum. At the Los Angeles premiere of his new animated flickSmallfooton Saturday, the 38-year-old actor opened up toEntertainment Tonightabout his only child’s independent personality. “She’s on the ground, rolling around. Every kid is up doing the proper stuff, but she’s just doing her own thing,” Tatum said of Everly’s participation in dance class, admitting “She kinda came out that way” more so than himself or exJenna Dewaninstilling a sense of spunk in their daughter....

Channing TatumandJessie Jare gushing over each other in public just a few months into their relationship. News of their romance first surfaced on social media on Oct. 6, when Tatum, 38, and Jessie, 30, were spotted on a date at a mini-golf course, with PEOPLE confirming days later that the pair were seeing each other. Both have responsibilities outside the blossoming relationship, with Tatum always making his 5-year-old daughter with ex-wifeJenna Dewana priority....

Channing TatumisJessie J‘s No. 1 fan!TheSmallfootactor, 38, couldn’t help but rave about the British singer, 30, during her live performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Tuesday night.“This woman just poured her heart out on stage at the Royal Albert Hall. Whoever was there got to witness something special. Wow,” Tatum wrote in the caption.The father of one also shared a short video of “Domino” singer entertaining her audience on his Instagram Story Tuesday, writing, “She went off tonight!...

Salma Hayek and Channing Tatum.Photo: Alexander Tamargo/GettyChanning TatumandSalma Hayekare two peas in a pod.Tatum, 42, returns as a stripper inMagic Mike’s Last Dance, the upcoming highly anticipated third installment of theMagic Mikefranchise costarringAcademy Awardnominee Hayek, 56.And the two certainly hit it off, both onscreen and off.“I have emotions in the film, and Salma and I talk about everything,” Tatum, in an all-black suit and matching T-shirt, tells PEOPLE of his relationship with Hayek while on the jam-packedred carpetbefore the movie’s premiere at the Regal South Beach in Miami on Wednesday....

Photo: Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Channing Tatumcouldn’t compose himself when he metMatt Damonfor the first time. TheMagic Mike’s Last Danceactor tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue that it’s “one of the funniest” stories, which happened while he was filming the 2011Steven SoderberghfilmHaywire, and a moment that still haunts him today. “Everyone on the planet knows where Matt Damon is from, and he obviously knows that I know where Matt Damon is from, and I almost didn’t recover,” he continues....

Channing Tatumapparently did not mind one bit whenAmanda Bynestook some credit for his success.“I totally fought for Channing [to get cast in] that movie [She’s theMan] because he wasn’t famous yet,” Bynes, 32, toldPaper Magazinein a recently published interview.WhenEntertainment Tonightasked Tatum about Bynes’ statement atLondon’sMagic Mike Livepremiere on Wednesday, the actor, 38, had a sweet response: “I love her.”He has fond memories of costarring in the 2006 filmwith Bynes. “She was just so alive,” he recalled toET....