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Watch Ellen DeGeneres creep out Channing Tatum with porcelain dolls

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Channing Tatum has an irrational fear of porcelain dolls and Ellen DeGeneres capitalized on that to make for some memorable television.

The gyrating “Magic Mike XXL” star confessed to the daytime host that he was “terrified” of the figurines, because as a kid, he’d watched a TV show in which one was possessed.

“I just think they’re freaky,” the 34-year-old said. “I just think they’re really super freaky. They have like real eyes and they look real. I just imagine when you walk by them, their heads turn with you the whole time.”

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(Yes, totally. Absolutely!!)

Of course, that’s when DeGeneres pulled out what could be two of the creepiest porcelain manifestations of all time: one with an angry goth-girl vibe and the other channeling a weird woodland-nymph ensemble.

“That is not right. Look at it! Why would someone make that?” the “Foxcatcher” actor exclaimed.

The burly, full-grown actor then cringed into his seat as DeGeneres climbed on top of him to give him some face-to-face time with the solemn-faced miniatures.

“You’re literally going to ruin my entire ... my brain!” he said. But DeGeneres claims she did it out of love.

“Today I helped @ChanningTatum get over his fear of dolls,” the comedian wrote Wednesday on Instagram. Perhaps, she should have included the hashtag #sorrynotsorry...

The former exotic dancer also talked about being featured last month in an episode of NBC’s “Running Wild With Bear Grylls” in which he climbed a mountain, slept on a narrow cliff’s edge and back-flipped off a helicopter.

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“This was like legitimate dangerous stuff and you think there’s a lot more safety on those shows, but, no. If you fall off, you fall off,” he told Degeneres.

Yet the man still shrinks at the sight of a porcelain doll.

Here’s hoping his daughter Everly doesn’t have an affinity for them. Follow me on Twitter @NardineSaad.

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