If you thought the Eminem-Elton John pairing at the Grammy Awards was odd ...

Taylor Swift has gone gangsta! The country darling is teaming up with rap superstar T-Pain for a top-secret collaboration that is rumored to be the opening number of Tuesday's CMT Awards. Taylor was even sporting some grillz at the rehearsal (see photo after the jump). She's up for four trophies, including the night's top award, Video of the Year, for 'Love Story.'

'Cheers' actor John Ratzenberger is frightened by his ex-girlfriend's affinity for country music. So much so that he's asked for a restraining order against her!

In court papers obtained by TMZ, Ratzenberger claims his ex, Lindsay McGrail, has "indicated that it is common in many country western songs for women to set the cars of their former boyfriends on fire." The actor is apparently afraid she may someday live out the lyrics of one of those songs to exact revenge upon him.

If you're going to call Billy Bob Thornton an actor, don't do it to his face. The Oscar winner is now concentrating on his music career, as a singer, songwriter and drummer for country-rockers The Boxmasters. So, when Thornton visited Canada's CBC radio station on Wednesday, he was more than a little miffed that the host mentioned his Hollywood career.

Thornton was visibly annoyed and stayed quiet during the first half of the interview, with the exception of the occasional "I don't know." But it was when host Jian Ghomeshi asked about his musical influences as a child that Thornton finally started to speak up, even though he didn't exactly answer the question.

Did Toby Keith once get a tongue lashing from Kris Kristofferson? Maybe, if you believe actor/director Ethan Hawke.

Hawke, a huge Kristofferson fan himself, wrote an article in the recent issue of Rolling Stone magazine about a confrontation he witnessed between the country icon and another country musician, whom he declined to name, at Willie Nelson's 2003 birthday concert at Madison Square Garden.

"Up from the basement came one of country music's brightest stars (who shall remain nameless)," Hawke recalls, adding that the unnamed star went on to warn Kristofferson to not sing "any of that lefty s--- out there tonight."

US Weekly has released security footage of the date that sparked a million rumors. The video below shows what appears to be LeAnn Rimes and actor Eddie Cibrian at an intimate dinner for two, holding hands and kissing.

"LeAnn Rimes Caught in an Affair"

That's the headline on the cover of the latest issue of US Weekly, which claims the country singer is cheating on her husband of seven years. A photo (see below) inside the magazine allegedly shows Rimes kissing Eddie Cibrian, her co-star in the upcoming Lifetime TV movie, 'Northern Lights.'

"From the moment we rehearsed, LeAnn and Eddie honestly developed a really strong bond and a warm relationship," the film's director Mike Robe told US.

Kenny Chesney is straight as an arrow. Just ask the more than 100 women he's bedded!

The country superstar is opening up about the gay rumors that started after the end of his short marriage to Reneé Zellweger. Speculation was partly due to the wording on the actress' annulment papers, which cited "fraud" as a reason for their split.

"What guy who loves girls wouldn't be angry about that? I didn't sign up for that," Chesney tells Playboy magazine of his reaction to the rumors. "I'm pretty confident in the fact that I love girls. [laughs] I've got a long line of girls who could testify that I'm not gay."