Channing Tatum

The Magic Mike actor took to Instagram to share some photos of his trip to one of Wexford's top tourist spots over the weekend. Channing paid a visit to ...

We were honoured and he had a lovely time.” (via Instagram) (via Instagram)

After a five-year hiatus, everyone's favourite beefcake-with-a-brain is back with a pair of hit movies, including the Sandra Bullock romcom 'The Lost City'.

He has a lumbering gait and the body of Superman, but also a heart of gold. Magic Mike begat a series of films and an internationally successful cabaret show, he posts copious thirst traps to his Instagram, and Dog and The Lost City both play into tried-and-tested actor modes from his earlier hits: the bruised lunk and the dim-bulb striver. There is a direct through line between Tatum’s stripper video and the blossoming of his movie career. In those films, he could be easily swapped out for Liam Hemsworth, Sam Worthington, or any one of the interchangeable white men Hollywood tried to psy-op to stardom in the past decade. As an actor, was he really going to be in anything other than a GI Joe movie? There he is as a monosyllabic jock in an Amanda Bynes movie (She’s the Man), or as a gruff outsider mumbling through poor dialogue (forgotten high school dramas such as Havoc and Coach Carter). It made sense that Hollywood didn’t see a movie star. It seemed inevitable that it would be the root of his money making. Ever since he pirouetted through the streets in the mid-Noughties dance movie Step Up – five sequels and a TV spin-off inexplicably followed – Tatum has deliberately tangled with his perception as a sentient sirloin steak. His early roles bear the thrum of a shaky actor just happy to be working. He graces their dust jackets, makes appearances at book signings, and vamps for horny readers in a long, blonde wig and an unbuttoned shirt. It’s partly a product of good business sense, Tatum having cultivated a vast, diverse fanbase thanks to his bro-y comedies (21 Jump Street), romances (Dear John), prestige movies (Hail, Caesar!) and odd fusions of sun-kissed drama and crotch-thrusting rock show (the Magic Mike industrial complex). Most significantly, though, it’s down to his oft-underestimated charisma, which crochets sexuality and sensitivity, brains and brainlessness. The Lost City is Tatum’s second massive hit of 2022, following Dog, a war veteran weepie that’s already made five times its budget in the US (although it didn’t get much of a release here). For an original movie to make money at the box office amid the superhero glut and a pandemic is unusual enough.

Tatum, 41, visited Wells House, a Victorian country house and gardens in Gorey, Co Wexford.

He was particularly fond of one of the meerkats in the animal enclosure. The Magic Mike star took to Instagram to share a number of pictures from his visit. Hollywood star Channing Tatum was in Co Wexford at the weekend, surprising fans by sharing pictures from a popular tourist attraction.

He may have armies of female admirers the world over but Hollywood actor Channing Tatum only had eyes for his “queen” during a surprise visit to Wells House ...

By now head over heels, Tatum wrote “feast my queen” before bidding a sad farewell to the meerkat as he enjoyed the other delights Wells House has to offer. He may have armies of female admirers the world over but Hollywood actor Channing Tatum only had eyes for his “queen” during a surprise visit to Wells House in Gorey this weekend. The star of 21 Jump Street and Magic Mike revealed his one true love with a series of Instagram posts at the popular tourist attraction.

So, it turns out Channing Tatum spent the weekend in Wexford! He visited the meerkat enclosure at Wells House in Gorey. Advertisement.

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The Magic Mike star visited Wells House in Gorey, and took to his Instagram Stories to share snaps from the popular tourist attraction. The actor posted a ...

She a real one.” The 21 Jump Street star also shared a snap of the meerkat “giving face”, before enjoying a meal of bugs. The actor posted a selfie with a meerkat after visiting their enclosure, and captioned it: “My matriarch for the day!