Photo:Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Channing Tatumis one busy guy.
Between acting, producing, directing and being a best-selling author — he just released his third children’s book,The One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lie— the star, 43, has decided to take the summer off. “I’ve been working for almost two and a half years straight,” he tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue.
With plans for “some really fun vacations,” Tatum will also cheer on his daughter Everly, 10, whom he shares with ex-wife Jenna Dewan, at her Irish dance competitions and hopes to take her to friend Taylor Swift’s concert when the singer comes to L.A.
Tatum reads his new children’s book to a group of kids outside Books are Magic bookstore in Brooklyn, New York on May 30.Arturo Holmes/Getty
Arturo Holmes/Getty
“My daughter listened to nothing but Celtic Irish music, anything that felt magical and folk-lorey," he says. “But she started to branch out and now we do T-Swifty on the morning rides. We’re in a very hardcore Taylor Swift mode right now.”
Tatum and Salma Hayek star in ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’.Warner Brothers
Warner Brothers
So no Magic Mike Grandpa in the future? “That would be the only thing I would come back for,Grumpy Old Strippers,” he says, laughing. “LikeGrumpy Old Men: Septuagenarian Strippers.”
“I usually always kind of connect it to something that I went through with Evie so I can understand at least the emotional journey of it,” Tatum says.
As for being a best-selling author, “I would love to go to every single English teacher that I’ve ever had,” he adds. “I was the last person in however many years they’ve been a teacher that they would have ever thought would be.”
The One and Only Sparkella and the Big Lieis available now.
source: people.com
