The Tates.

That's what I'm calling 'em. Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum. They're the Tatums. Tates for short. And I love them (not only because saying tates remind me of potates).

Can you believe Step Up came out in 2006? That's 10 years ago babe. TEN years.

Yeah. Just let that sink in for a moment.

Ten years ago I was in Sec 3. Kinda starting to get into ballet despite having learned it for about 10 years already at that point. And by "get into", I mean really enjoy and appreciate it. I think it really started with Step Up the movie. It was the coolest fusion of ballet and modern that I've ever seen.

Step Up will always be my number one dance movie. It ranks higher than Center Stage and all the myriad of dance movies I've seen. I'm talking Grease, Footloose, Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever, Flash Dance, Top Hat, Brigadoon etc; Take The Lead, Shall We Dance, Strictly Ballroom, Save The Last Dance etc; Billy Elliot, White Nights, The Red Shoes, Black Swan etc; Chicago, Moulin Rougue, Singing in the Rain, Burlesque, A Chorus Line, All That Jazz, West Side Story etc; Dance Flick, Stomp, Honey, Fame, Bring It On, Magic Mike and Step Up 2, 3, 4 etc.

The 2006 Step Up will always hold a special place in my heart.


I mean, who didn't try out the 8-count routine Jenna so graciously recited for us? Step knee, step fan, and turn(en dehors), ball-change, contract.

JDT would've been my idol/hashtag goals if 15 year old me knew of those things.

And then Channing. Man, Channing.

The first time he asked JDT what the hell was a pique I was like "This dude is so real. JDT's character definitely needs him in her life. Preach."

I'm pretty certain he chaine-d his way into her heart. Like literally just barge right into her heart and set up shop there. Go watch his chaines. Seriously. They are lethal. Like his hands/arms almost took her out. She was defenceless against him and his assault.

Getting her to show him how to coupe was just another way to dismantle her defences. He's smart that way.

And when he pas de chat. Oh man his PDC. If getting her to choose him as a dance partner (because hello hotness plus muscles and lifting abilities) was the hook, and his lethal chaines were the line, his pas de chat would be the sinker. I mean, when she laughed at him, her fate was sealed. After that point she had to go after him to apologise for laughing at his (hilariously atrocious and very monkey-like) PDC, she was a goner. That was the Tates' (more like their characters') fate sealed in ink.

His adorable pirouettes was akin to frosting on a cupcake. Before his pirouettes, the Tates (their characters) were just a boring muffin. But his pirouettes. They brought the muffin to another level. Because when you add frosting, the boring old muffin becomes a cupcake.

But that wasn't enough. No. He attended her ballet class and pissed off this tiny little girl in one of the most adorkable scenes ever. BAM. Funfetti sprinkles on the cupcake.

I am in diabetic shipper heaven.


And here we are now. Ten years later and the Tatums opened the new season of Lip Sync Battle.

JDT was flawless lip syncing to Paula Abdul's song because hello. That girl knew all the words and could execute the dance moves to perfection. Perfection I tell you.

See, you get a whole different quality of performance when you get real dancers to dance and stuff.

Channing in Elsa's dress. Can I just say there were moments when I thought he would trip on the train of the dress, but he spins like a pro and obviously the dress train never caught on anything.

Doing a Beyonce number is kinda cheating because Beyonce songs are such crowd pleasers. But yeah okay, Channing can dance and shake his butt, and it was extremely entertaining. Because of the amazing dancing. The dancing was on point, ya know?

HOWEVER.

JDT already stole the show for me when she did her hubbie's Magic Mike routine to the song Pony. I mean. I just have no words. I loved every. single. part. of. the. routine. I loved each part more than the previous as the whole thing unfolded.
And that lap dance. OMG. See, that's the kind of lap dance you can get on tv when it's a married couple involved. I honestly wouldn't be the least bit surprised if this sort of sexy dancing was a normal routine in the Tatum household.

So there you go. JDT and CT are basically married dancer couple goals.