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Mar 02,2012

Who’s Well Hung In Channing Tatum’s Stripper Movie?

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Below is a spoiler for Joe’s movie ‘Magic Mike’ so dont read if you dont want to be spoiled!

Magic Mike is the upcoming, eagerly awaited Soderbergh film based on Channing Tatum’s time spent as a male ecdysiast.
Tatum plays a mentor to the character based on himself, played by Alex Pettyfer.

Matthew McConaughey (above) is the stripper-turned-shirtless-club owner.

And here are some leaked, as it were, comments from someone who saw the film and can’t quit gushing about the important elements.

“It is very R-rated, filled with nudity, both male and female.

“Lots of ass shots of the boys. Many scenes of them dancing in tight little thongs. Channing’s ass and thighs looked fuckin amazing as he gets out of bed and walks to the bathroom in a long shot!

“The only exposed c**k comes from Joe Manganiello, who plays a character called ‘Big Dick.’ I’m assuming it was a prosthetic, a la Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights.

“For you Matthew McConaughey fans…he’s often shirtless on stage introducing the guys. All I can say is he looked amazing dancing in his tiny little g-string!

“By the way, based on the thongs, it looked like Adam Rodriguez was packing the most heat. Fuckin huge!”

Somehow, I don’t think the New York Times review will be quite on this genital level, but who cares what the Times says?

I already bought my ticket. [xx]



Feb 28,2012

Lone Wolf

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Joe Manganiello was a theater-loving jock who defended the arty kids in school, but never felt he belonged to any clique. Then he was cast in ‘True Blood’ and found his feet—all four of them.

“It was brown, now it’s gray. i don’t know what the hell happened. it seems to me, people like it. Nobody’s complained.”

The actor Joe Manganiello is musing on his beard, the ever-present scruff that contrasts the 35-year-old’s youthful vigor. Like Tom Selleck’s Magnum, P.I. mustache was to the ’80s, Manganiello’s salt-and-pepper beard (heavy on the salt) is becoming the lusty facial hair of this era.

It is mid-morning and Manganiello is sipping an Americano at an outdoor table. The café is a few blocks from his house in the tony Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. His eyes are shielded by black Persol sunglasses. Strands of thick dark hair hang down in front of the lenses and touch his regal nose. He’s wearing a gray T-shirt and jeans. The flashiest part of his outfit are his black and yellow old-school Nike Dunks. Leaning back in a chair, he looks as nondescript as a six-foot-five man can. He is famously fit, but doesn’t stand out as a muscle-bound behemoth.

“If I was on ‘roids, I would be this monster,” he says. “That’s not the goal.”

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Feb 28,2012

Joe Manganiello Is Fine with Getting Naked on True Blood

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Joe Manganiello has plenty of experience stripping down for his role as Alcide Herveaux on True Blood – and there’s nothing wrong with that, says the hunk.

“As far as the butt cheeks stuff goes, it just makes sense” Manganiello, 35, tells OUT magazine’s March issue, of his frequent nudity on HBO’s hit series.

“It’s not gratuitous; it’s realistic,” he says. “If you’re a werewolf and you transform, you lose everything and there are your butt cheeks.”

Adds the actor, “The show is a deconstruction of supernatural creatures. It’s not like other werewolf projects where you magically reappear with tiny jean shorts on.”

Viewers will get an even closer view of the hunky star’s physique when his new film Magic Mike hits theaters in June.

Manganiello, who takes on the role of a stripper in the movie, plays it coy when asked if he had to stuff his G-string for the role. “Um, I’ll let everybody see the movie and they can decide,” he says.

Manganiello has a booming career, but his personal life took a bit of a hit last year when reports surfaced that he and fiancée Audra Marie called off their one-year engagement. At the time Manganiello wouldn’t confirm or deny the split, but now confirms that he’s flying solo – and liking it.

“I used to have two dogs, but, um, the owner of the dogs moved out,” he says. “I’m single. Yeah, I used to not like being alone, but I dig it, man.” [xx]



Feb 07,2012

Caught! Joe Manganiello’s Super Bowl Partying “Only Had Time for His Bros”

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In case you didn’t know, yesterday was the Super Bowl.

But before the kickoff and that killer Madonna halftime show, Indianapolis was crawling with Hollywood’s hottest dudes (and some chicas too—like Nikki Reed…but more on her later). And the hottest of the hot? True Blood’s abtastic Joe Manganiello, of course.

So did any very eligible female football fans catch Joe M.’s eye?

Nope, apparently it was a total guy’s weekend—guess we shouldn’t be too surprised, huh?

Joe attended the superhero-themed Patrón Presents: The Maxim party featuring Coca-Cola Zero Countdown held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in the Horticulture and Agriculture Building (which, for the night, was turned into Batman’s Gothem City).

True Blood’s resident werewolf happily chitchatted with the press (who had plenty of questions about his six-pack, Magic Mike and, well, his six-pack), before slipping inside the shindig to hang with his pals.

“Joe and his male friends made themselves comfortable at a VIP table,” a fellow partyer dished to us.

So why isn’t somewhat newly single Joe (who split from his former fiancé last September) ready to mingle?

Who knows! We certainly don’t think he’d have trouble landing any babe he wanted—and we do mean any.

“Female fans were giggling and very obviously talking about how cute he is,” our soiree spy spills. “But Joe only had time for his bros.”

Well, if Joe isn’t ready to hop into another high-profile relaysh (how very un-Hollywood of him), we won’t force him. Just leaves more time to hit the gym, right? [xx]



Feb 07,2012

DA MAN Exclusive: Joe Manganiello of “True Blood”

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RUGGED APPEAL. Actor Joe Manganiello transcends the werewolf genre. He does, however, play the werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the hit TV show True Blood and his popularity is rising very fast, with females the world over swooning over him. By M. Berlian

While he’s most famous as Alcide on True Blood, Joe Manganiello, originally from the rugged U.S. city of Pittsburgh has been plying his trade for over a decade in such hits as One Tree Hill (as Owen Morello), ER and two of the Spider-Man films, in which he portrays Flash Thompson. This coming May, you’ll see him in What to Expect When You’re Expecting working together with Cameron Diaz, Matthew Morrison and Dennis Quaid.

In June 2012, Manganiello will co-star in the Steven Soderbergh-directed Magic Mike, in which he portrays Big Dick Richie, a male stripper, alongside Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Alex Pettyfer and Olivia Munn.
Overall, life is good for Joe Manganiello.

DA MAN: Who was your biggest influence while growing up that encouraged you to pursue a career where so many want to do it, but so many fail?
Joe Manganiello: There was a cascade of events that led to my pursuit. My mother took me to see a production of the Hobbit with puppets, as a kid, and I remember being absolutely enthralled but I didn’t want to be an actor until later in life. I remember vividly this sense in my gut that this was what I was supposed to do. I also had a high school theater teacher that saw something in me and kept bugging me to try out for the senior musical, and so I did and I got the part. That gut feeling then led me to try out for one of the toughest drama schools in the world and I ended up getting accepted with a scholarship. The moral: trust your gut.

DA MAN: As a youth, you also dabbled in filmmaking along with friends, does that fire still burn within you?
Joe Manganiello: Yes, I am currently developing several projects as a producer.

DA MAN: What experiences, positive or negative, have made you a stronger person?
Joe Manganiello: Quitting drinking and smoking have been the two biggest turning points of my entire life.

DA MAN: Do you have any regrets about pursuing a career in showbiz?
Joe Manganiello: None whatsoever. I love every single second of my life and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

DA MAN: After finishing at Carnegie Mellon’s esteemed drama school, did you go straight into a project or did you have any of those ‘starving actor’ type jobs?
Joe Manganiello: I screen-tested alongside James Franco for my part in Spider-Man the week after I graduated from CMU and got the part. However, it didn’t start shooting for six months, so I paid the bills as a bodyguard for singer/actor Tyrese Gibson and as a bouncer at a Mexican rock bar and an afterhours club.

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Feb 07,2012

Super Bowl XLVI Party Roundup: Joe Manganiello, Neil Patrick Harris, Nikki Reed and More!

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True Blood’s Joe Manganiello dancing along to LL Cool J performing at GQ’s LACOSTE and Patrón party. And when we caught up to the hunky True Blood star later, he told us that he had met Colt’s great Peyton Manning, and he spent time at the DirecTV Beach Bowl catching passes from the legendary Joe Montana.

When we asked how many women he thought would be seeing his stripper movie Magic Mike for the plot, he smiled and said: “Hopefully none!” [xx]