Channing Tatum and His Magic Mike Co-Stars: Then and Now (PHOTOS)

Before breaking onto the scene in 2005’s Coach Carter, the 2006 Amanda Bynes rom-com She’s the Man, and the 2006 dance hit Step Up (opposite now-wife Jenna Dewan), Channing Tatum, 32, was just another smokin’-hot model/college dropout who once worked a string of odd jobs — from house framing to stripping with a Florida troupe called Male Encounter. Now known for mega-movies like G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, Dear John, The Vow, and 21 Jump Street, Chan is going back to his exotic-dancer roots in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike.

We’re not complaining.