In April 2018, actor Channing Tatum and his wife Jenna Duan announced their separation after 9 years of marriage. The actors met on the set of the youth drama Step Forward, which brought both their first resounding success. Since then, Channing's career has been gaining momentum, and he achieved the status of a true Hollywood star. Jenna was happy for her husband, supported him at all premieres and ceremonies. No one knew that the relationship between the spouses is not so cloudless. After the breakup, they learn to communicate again, not just as lovers, but as parents of their common daughter Everly.
Step forward
In 2006, Jenna Duan, a young dancer and aspiring actress, auditioned for Step Up. She had to play a joint scene with another newcomer to this profession - Channing Tatum. The young man had a dance and modeling career behind him, and in his youth he even worked as a stripper.
In an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine in 2017, Jenna spoke in detail about the first meeting with her future husband and the beginning of the novel. She was late for the audition and found an awkward moment when Channing was about to kiss another girl who was claiming the lead role. But this did not stop the young actress, barely entering the frame, instantly falling under the spell of Tatum. The couple kept a video of their first audition, where, according to the script, they are desperately flirting. So Jenna admitted that she was flirting with a nice guy not on behalf of her heroine, but of her own free will.
As a result, the producers liked Duan and Tatum's candidacies, and the actors began filming. In their free time, they talked a lot, went to nightclubs together. They were clearly attracted to each other, but then Channing admitted that he had recently ended a past relationship and had not fully recovered. Then Jenna invited him to take a break, to sort out his desires, because she was not ready for a short affair. The girl left her partner in the film in complete bewilderment, because they had not even kissed yet.
For a couple of days, the young actors did not communicate outside the set. One evening, Channing went to a party with the dancers from the movie. Jenna was sleeping in her room when in the middle of the night he started knocking on her room. Tatum showed up to her straight from the party in a very strange form: in underwear, uggs and a sombrero hat, which he grabbed from a Mexican bar. The tequila drunk gave him the courage to admit that he was ready to meet with Jenna, after which the girl allowed Channing to stay overnight in her room. The next morning she left to get ready for filming, and Tatum, who was supposed to come a little later, of course, slept. After the actor was not found in his room, a commotion arose on the site. Then Jenna had to reveal their little secret, so almost immediately everyone was aware of the relationship between the two main actors.
Love and family
At the premiere of Step Up, its main stars came as an official couple. Since then, they regularly appeared together at social events, spent vacations together. During one of his romantic trips to the island of Maui in September 2008, Tatum offered his girlfriend a hand and a heart. He ordered an engagement ring from jeweler Neil Lane.
Almost a year later, in July 2009, the lovers got married at Church Estates in Malibu. The celebration was attended by 220 guests, including actresses Emmanuelle Chriqui and Hayley Duff, who was a bridesmaid. For the big day, the groom donned an Armani tuxedo, while the bride opted for a fluffy ivory dress from Reem Acra. After the official part, the guests moved to a buffet table in a wedding tent, decorated with thousands of roses, hydrangeas and orchids.
The newlyweds ordered wedding rings from Neil Lane again. They performed their first dance to Adele's song Make you feel my love. The wedding cake was designed in the form of a magic castle, which consisted of several layers: red velvet, chocolate sponge cake with chocolate fondant and white sponge cake with rainbow dragee. Channing and Jenna spent their honeymoon in Bali, where they got a pair of tattoos in the local language, which means "side by side".
In February 2010, the couple, with the participation of several friends, founded their own production company 33and OutProductions. Their first project was the documentary Land of Glass, which tells the story of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The film premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Festival in New York and received good critical reviews.
Meanwhile, Channing's acting career was developing successfully. Jenna, on the contrary, was not doing very well, the series with her participation were closed after showing only a few episodes. At the end of 2012, a representative of the couple officially announced that they were preparing for the birth of their first child. Pregnant Jena first appeared in public in February 2013 at the Oscars.
The couple became parents on May 31, their daughter Everly was born in London. Two weeks later, they posted a family photo with a newborn baby on Instagram. True, since then, happy parents have rarely delighted fans with pictures of their growing daughter.
Not together anymore
In August 2016, the couple celebrated the 10th anniversary of the beginning of their relationship, and in December, Jenna shared with the readers of the popular women's magazine the secret of a happy marriage, emphasizing the importance of a harmonious and fulfilling sex life. In December 2017, Tatum congratulated his wife on her birthday through Instagram, once again confessing his love to her. And already in April 2018, the couple announced their separation after almost 9 years of marriage. In a joint statement, they called each other friends, who intend to continue to build their lives separately, while remaining loving and caring parents for their daughter Everly.
Later, their entourage confirmed that the couple had been going to this decision for a long time, experiencing ups and downs in their marriage. Tatum's ex-wife soon abandoned the double surname and returned her maiden - Duan. True, the separation did not turn out to be peaceful, as the couple originally planned. They say that Channing and Jenna can not settle questions about joint custody of their daughter.
Well, and to suffer alone, none of them was clearly not going to. In the fall, the actress was photographed in the company of her new lover - Broadway actor Steve Kazi. Tatum, in turn, had an affair with the popular 30-year-old singer Jesse J. Moreover, the new girl outwardly strongly resembles his ex-wife. None of the actors comment on their divorce and new relationship. It is obvious that they have left the failed marriage in the past and are ready to move on, enjoying the newfound freedom.
