Readers who clicked through to the appended link were greeted with the following image revealing the prank:Ĭhanning Tatum did not reveal any new information about his sexuality, and he remained married to actress Jenna Dewan until they separated in March 2018. Paul relished his job as a hoax artist and fake news writer.
As with a similar viral hoax involving EastEnders actor Danny Dyer, the Channing Tatum hoax spread atypically far for a link due to user interest in the fabricated claim.Ĭlaims like the one about Tatum often spread due to a compelling headline alone. Like I saw one that was like, Jaden Smith commits suicide. is not a news site rather, its primary purpose is the generation of user-submitted links that appear to be news stories. While the rumor was briefly popular on sites like Twitter and Facebook among Tatum’s fans, it was generated by the site. The link’s headline stated “Channing Tatum comes out as Gay,” and the preview text read “Channing Tatum comes out as Gay following a number of rumours”: But in December, he appeared to respond to the allegations about his wife’s background in an Instagram post, saying, It’s so spectacularly false.And they’ve said it about people I love, false things and when you love somebody, you want to defend them.
On, a news-like link began to circulate on Facebook claiming popular actor Channing Tatum came out as gay. Alec Baldwin did not specifically say why he was leaving the social media platform.
