Jessie J shuts down Channing Tatum question during TV interview

Jessie J wasn’t keen on being asked about boyfriend Channing Tatum during a TV interview — and her awkward response left viewers cringing.

Jessie J shut down a question about her boyfriend Channing Tatum during a live interview on a British breakfast program — leaving host Ben Shephard looking mortified and viewers cringing.

The Voice Kids judge, 31, joined Shephard and fellow presenter Jenni Falconer on This Morning to promote the finale of the talent show, reports The Sun.

But when the conversation veered onto her relationship with the Magic Mike hunk, Jessie was not impressed.

Shephard brought up how Magic Mike Live — the strip show based on the movie that Tatum, 39, starred in — recently performed in the studio.

“That’s a performance that seems to be quite,” began Shephard, before Jessie abruptly interrupted.

“The opposite of The Voice Kids,” the Price Tag singer said bluntly, swiftly changing the subject. “Let’s stay focused on The Voice Kids.”

The singer made it clear she didn’t want to talk about Tatum.

Making it even more obvious that she wasn’t happy, Jessie laughed uncomfortably and sat on her hands.

Shephard continued to talk about the stage show, however, bringing Falconer into the conversation.

“Is that something you would recommend though because you’ve been invited?” he said, pointing to Falconer.

“Yeah, I have been invited and apparently there is a massive big party coming up and they get to meet the guys that are dancing afterwards,” Falconer said, clearly trying to defuse the uncomfortable situation.

As the presenters bantered back and forth, Jessie looked around, appearing irritated, before Shephard tried in vain to get her to talk about her boyfriend again.

“There are various different ways of performing though, isn’t there, and that is a very different one,” Shephard said.

But Jessie was not having it and made a point of very deliberately bringing the interview back to her TV gig.

“Yeah I mean, The Voice Kids is insane,” she replied. “And I have loved every second of doing it, and I am so excited for the finale tomorrow.”

The hosts attempted to broach the subject of Tatum twice.

Jessie was less private about her relationship with Tatum — who she affectionately calls “Chan” — when she attended Magic Mike Live at London’s Hippodrome with her boyfriend last weekend.

She posted a loved-up snap of the pair on her Instagram, captioned: “Watching @magicmikeldn last night with Magic Mike.”

Jessie and Channing have been an item since October 2018 after he split from his ex-wife, Jenna Dewan.

The pair managed to keep their relationship secret for six months but went public during a trip to Disneyland.

The famous couple have shared photos together on social media.

Since then, they have regularly appeared on each other’s social media accounts, with Jessie famously posting a shot of a naked Tatum in the shower with only his hands covering his modesty.

The Bang Bang crooner insists, however, that it’s her call how much she shares with the world.

“I decide when I want to talk about it and when I don’t,” she told The Sun’s Dan Wootton back in June. “I decide when I want to post about him on Instagram and I don’t. If I do it’s often a naked picture of him because that’s what people want to see.”

This story originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission