Andy Cohen interviewed actor Channing Tatum and wanted an answer to an “unsolved mystery” from the Bravosphere involving the former star of The Valley, Jax Taylor.
In a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Jax talked about the time he shared a dorm room with Channing. Considering Jax’s relationship with the truth, Jax’s friends and fans of the show wondered if there was truth to the claim.
Was Channing Tatum Jax’s roommate?
On his Sirius XM radio show, Andy began, “Your name has come up several times on a little broadcast television show called Vanderpump Rules” to Channing. “Were you the roommate of someone called Jax on Vanderpump Rules, Jason Cauchi?”
“Absolutely not,” answered Channing.
Andy asked for clarity. “[You] never lived with this person or a Tom Sandoval? There’s someone called Jason Cauchi on Vanderpump Rules who now goes by Jax, who said that in the day, when you were both young models, he was a roommate of yours. Any recollection of this?”
“I need to see pictures of him, because sometimes they’ll put you in a model house that just has a bed, [but] I don’t think so.”
Then, Andy showed a picture of Jason/Jax to the Magic Mike star. “Does that person look familiar to you?”
“All models look the same.” Depending on who Jason/Jax was represented by, “then I probably would have met him, but I don’t think I ever room-mated with him.”
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Here’s a snippet of Jax’s Rolling Stone interview about Channing from 2013:
“I started modeling in Miami and went to New York, and I was with this agency called Ford. This was around 2002, and those agencies had apartments for models that were coming into town. They’re basically like dorm rooms with bunk beds. A tiny room with bunk beds and a bathroom.”
Jax revealed that he and Channing, along with four other guys, were on a hunt to make it big in Hollywood.
“Channing was one of six guys in our room. Now, he got famous real quick. He did this Mountain Dew commercial where he flipped a car, and once he got that job, he took off. We lived off peanut butter and jelly and Subway. We got some free dinners and got to go to any clubs we wanted. But other than that, we were just broke and trying to make a living.”
