Salma Hayek says Channing Tatum almost pulled her sweatpants off by accident during Magic Mike

Salma Hayek has revealed Channing Tatum almost pulled off her sweatpants by accident as they were making Magic Mike’s Last Dance.

The star said she was “hanging on for dear life” when the slip-up happened as she almost fell while they were working on their dance moves, as she wasn’t sure she had underwear on.

Hayek opened up on The Graham Norton Show as she talked about making the eagerly-awaited third movie in the steamy franchise about stripper Michael "Magic Mike" Lane.

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She said: “You must be very precise and one time when we were rehearsing, and I had to put my legs in a specific position, and I was upside down and I got very confused and was heading straight to the ground headfirst.

“Channing tried to grab me by my sweatpants, which were coming off.

"Then I couldn’t remember if I was wearing underwear, so I was hanging on for dear life!”

The film follows 2012’s Magic Mike and its 2015 sequel, Magic Mike XXL.

It sees Mike leaving the US and heading off to London to help Hayek’s socialite character produce a stage play.

Hayek, 56, said the sensual dance moves had to be “very balletic and very sexy”.

“I was terrified about trying to make it look easy, but it really needs strength in the body, which I do not have because I don’t work out,” she confessed.

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The movie is being released in the UK on 10 February.

The Graham Norton Show is on BBC One on Friday 10 February at 10.40pm. It is also available on BBC iPlayer.

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