Shania’s show gets hairy between songs

Shania Twain's NBC taping Monday night veered off in several strange/entertaining directions.

Between songs, Shania would chat with the west Nashville audience a bit, and things got a little weird when backing vocalist/fiddler/artist extraordinaire Alison Krauss — for reasons still unclear to me —demonstrated (in her sleeveless shirt) that she had shaved her armpits.

Shania, dressed in long-sleeve black leather jumpsuit, offered that she wasn't quite as careful about body hair shaving. Shania mentioned this is a habit she got into growing up in northern Canada.

''There are a lot of hairy girls in winters,'' she said, offering images one might rather not have when staring at the gorgeous goddess that is Shania Twain.

''That's the beauty of winter. You wear long sleeves and pants and you become a gorilla.'' The audience howled.

Whether this fabulous repartee makes it into the final show remains to be seen. Shania's special airs at 8 p.m. Nov. 26 on Channel 4.