Channing Tatum has had a pretty good year with roles as a male stripper in "Magic Mike," a romantic husband in "The Vow" and after showing his sexy side on camera, Tatum has been voted as People's Sexiest Man Alive for 2012.
"My first thought was, 'Y'all are messing with me,'" the 32-year-old Alabama native tells People.
Tatum is happily married to actress Jenna Dewan-Tatum since 2009. He chose to tell her that he was voted the sexiest man alive while they were washing their dogs together.
"Our dogs were being skunked every other night for about two months straight, so this was a very normal occurrence, to be kneeling in front of the bathtub washing our dogs," the actress, 31, told PEOPLE Wednesday at the opening of Kimberly Snyder's juice bar Glow Bio in West Hollywood.
"But he was like, 'Oh, by the way, I was named PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive...' "
Dewan-Tatum was stunned - and amused - at the timing of his revelation. "Is that not the strangest way to tell me this news?" she said, laughing.
But following in the footsteps of "sexiest men" like Bradley Cooper (2011), Ryan Reynolds (2010) and Johnny Depp (2009) takes more than good acting and good looks.
