Channing Tatum Is PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive! 
 
 He may have bared (almost) all of that incredibly chiseled body in this year's Magic Mike but 2012's Sexiest Man Alive Channing Tatum was still modest when he heard the news."My first thought was, 'Y'all are messing with me,'" says Tatum, who married actress Jenna Dewan-Tatum in 2009 . "I told Jenna after we'd been in the bathtub washing our dogs because they'd gotten skunked."Says the actor: "She was like, 'What?'""Yeah, she calls me [the Sexiest Man Alive] now," he adds. And who can blame her?Her Alabama-bred heartthrob of a husband is also a sculptor who quotes Edgar Allan Poe, loves to give her massages and can't wait to start their family. "I'm ready; I think she's ready," Tatum, 32, says. "The first number that pops into my head is three, but I just want one to be healthy and then we'll see where we go after that.""It’s really easy for us guys to say, 'I want like 15 kids,'" he continues. "Jenna will be like, 'Well you better get another wife!'"Currently training to play an Olympic athlete in next year's Foxcatcher, Tatum is all heart and muscle at 195 pounds. "I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can't move well and I like to move," he says. "When I'm not training, I get really round and soft."Which is just fine by his wife. "People know him to be fun and sexy, but they don't know how emotionally deep and spiritually open he is," says Dewan-Tatum , 31. "He is such an open-hearted person; what you see is what you get." ||||| What do you do on after your last day as the sexiest man alive?joked, “We do a retreat, we have a retreat that we go on. [runs it. We go up to Lake Tahoe.” 
 
 Speaking with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan on Live with Kelly and Michael Tuesday, Ripa then continued to joke that maybe there’s a chance he could repeat. However, it was reported last week that Channing Tatum will take the title from Cooper when People hits the news stands on Wednesday. 
 
 Earlier in the morning, Cooper joked with Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today, “There’s a whole decompression. After this I get whisked away to somewhere in Wisconsin and they talk me down for a week. I think Matt Damon started it. “ 
 
 Cooper, 37, was working the morning show circuit to promote his new film, Silver Linings Playbook. which co-starsand 
 
 The Hangover star plays Pat, a man who is bipolar and is released from a mental institution, then moves in with his parents (Deniro and Jacki Weaver). He meets a mysterious girl, Tiffany (Lawrence). 
 
 Silver Linings Playbook was filmed in Philadelphia, Pa. near where Cooper is from. Given that most actors who star in Philly-set movies happen to be from New York, he says director David O’Russell wanted to make sure they did a good job representing the city. He tells Ripa and Strahan that the iconic DeNiro asked his uncle for help with his accent and lines. 
 
 “[Deniro’s uncle is] sitting in between Bob and David O’Russell and we went through the entire script,” says Cooper. “At the end of it, he walked out. There’s something about Philadelphia people. There’s a real confidence… He walked out and he’s like… ‘We’ll see how he does if he does it the way I said it.’ ” 
 
 You can watch portions of Cooper’s interview with Ripa and Strahan above and below. 
 
 Silver Linings Playbook is out in limited release this Friday and nationwide on Nov. 21. 
 
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– Brace yourself for the inevitable backlash from Ryan Gosling fans: Once again, someone else—namely Channing Tatum—has robbed him of his rightful place as People's Sexiest Man Alive. Tatum grabbed this year's title thanks in part to his "incredibly chiseled body" (People's words) in Magic Mike. His first thought upon hearing he'd won: "Y'all are messing with me," a modest Tatum tells the mag. His wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum's reaction: "She was like, 'What?'" Expect outrage, considering Gosling fans actually protested outside the People offices last year after Bradley Cooper was crowned instead of the Gos. (Cooper himself eventually admitted that Ryan is way sexier than he is.) Click to see how Cooper spent his last day as Sexiest Man.