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Channing Tatum swears he has never seen the Instagram account that sounds shockingly like Channing Tatum in his life! Over the weekend, rumors that the actor was responsible for a snarky burner Instagram account ran rampant, as users unearthed comments that skewed heavily pro-Tatum and anti–Zoë Kravitz, his former fiancée who is now engaged to Harry Styles. The account has since been deactivated, but as of Friday, the page (@bidness_nonya) had just one follower: the real Channing Tatum.
On Monday, Tatum addressed the account on his Instagram Story, insisting that @bidness_nonya is absolutely, definitely not him. “Yo i truly can’t believe yall think this is what I’m doing with my free time,” he wrote. “Fucking hilarious. Also, why would I follow a burner account if I didn’t want people to connect me to it? Wtf come on.”
“But if I really need to say it, I only have one IG account,” he added. “@channingtatum.”
Well, the rumors were fun while they lasted. In screenshots that circulated widely last week, @bidness_nonya appeared to have posted a slew of hyperspecific and seemingly Tatum-approved allegiances and grievances. On a paparazzi photo of Kravitz and her current fiancé, Styles, posted to DeuxMoi, the account wrote, “just here for the hate” with laughing and popcorn emoji. On another photo of the affianced, a @bidness_nonya comment read, “When I see these two I think back at how her former fiancé called her the most intentional person he knows.” “To me intentional = calculated,” the poster added. “He was speaking in terms of filmmaking but leaning towards her as a person in general too.” Most importantly, the burner account seemed to adore Tatum above all else, calling him “so genuine … no false pretenses with this guy, and funny as hell, too.”
While Tatum is claiming innocence in the case of the Finsta, he did get active on his verified Instagram Stories in April, when news broke that Kravitz and Styles had gotten engaged. In one update, he reposted a video of the ocean with the text, “Letting go and trusting the flow of the universe.” No false pretenses, indeed.
