Dawn French ‘sets up’ Channing Tatum with her rarely seen daughter Billie on The Graham Norton show

DAWN French tried to marry-off her daughter Billie on The Graham Norton show tonight.

She made a beeline for fellow guest and Magic Mike star Channing Tatum, 41 — and used her flirty charm to win over the Hollywood hunk.

“Hello ‘Tanning Chatum’ I’m Dawn French you wouldn’t know me I’m from the eighties, and I’m a goer!” she said.

Reeling him in, the 64-year-old continued: “I just wanted to ask you about how you have coped over the last grim two years with lockdowns, and has it made you more spontaneous to say ‘yes’ to things?”

Before he could get a word in, she added: “If I asked you something now, would you say ‘yes Dawn, I will?'”

Intrigued, Channing replied: “I feel like I’m walking into something here, but you’re a goer, let’s go.”

Grinning like the cheshire cat, Dawn said: “Well, I have to tell you ‘Tanning Chatum’ that you just agreed to marry my daughter.

“You’re my son-in-law now!”

Viewers rejoiced at the punchline, and Channing blushed, while Graham and fellow guests Rob Beckett, Johannes Radebe, and Andrew Garfield were howling.

One fan said on Twitter: “Channing Tatum agrees to marry Dawn French’s daughter! What a Tanning Chatum!”

Another tweeted: “Dawn French’s Brain: Channing Tatum. Channing Tatum. Channing Tatum … Dawn French’s Mouth: “Tanning Chatum!!”

Dawn previously opened up about her relationship with daughter Billie, 30, who she adopted with ex-husband Lenny Henry.

She confessed her and Billie, who has chosen to remain out of the spotlight, cannot live together because of the “frequent wars” they have.

She said: “I haven’t got a kid who wants to read with me and have adventures with me, I’ve got a different kind of kid who’s a different kind of set of challenges and that’s been my lesson.

“Our relationship exists in a bizarre kind of process of peacetime, small battles, war. The peacetime is much more than the other two energies, but we have our wars.”