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Alabama Native, Channing Tatum, dresses as Beyonce, competes against wife in lip sync challenge


By Haley Laurence | hlaurence@al.com

Beyonce may be the queen of pop music, but she has some new competition -- Channing Tatum.

The Cullman native and his wife, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, competed against each other on Thursday night's episode of "Lip Sync Battle" on Spike TV, and both proved they have some pretty legit dance moves.

Jenna started off the competition with a remake of Channing's famous "Magic Mike" dance to Ginuwine's "Pony." (By the way, as AL.com reporter Matt Wake pointed out, "Pony" turns 20 this year. Let's celebrate.) She's on point the entire time, and has host LL Cool J in stitches.

But Channing ups the ante and dresses as Beyonce (blond wig and makeup and all) and flawlessly performs the choreography to her hit, "Run the World (Girls)." And best of all -- Beyonce shows up to assist him. He slayed it, and Channing knew it, tweeting afterward.

The video is kind of not suitable for work but I think your boss will understand. Watch it anyway:

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