BLAKE SHELTON loves kissing men. Loves it. So TRACE ADKINS was probably NOT surprised when Blake kissed him at some Hollywood press event. Blake joked to reporters, quote, "Trace Adkins didn't discover me, but he has touched me."

NATALIE MAINES was on HOWARD STERNS' show talking about the DIXIE CHICKS . . . and although she still considers herself IN the band . . . she didn't sound very positive about their future together. When Howard introduced her as "formerly of the Dixie Chicks", she corrected him. She said, quote, "I'm still in the Dixie Chicks, we haven't broken up. I love the Dixie Chicks . . . it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery." But later she said, quote, "I just don't feel like it's the Dixie Chicks' time. I feel like things were tainted permanently." Obviously, she's talking about how the country community abandoned them after she dissed PRESIDENT BUSH in 2003. The Dixie Chicks' last tour had lousy ticket sales and that sealed the deal for her. She said, quote, "I naively thought those same people would come again. It was not good. Our biggest fan base was a country audience, and they weren't there. I don't trust it anymore. I don't want to put my fate in country music fans, I'm too stubborn."

Several sources are saying TAYLOR SWIFT and HARRY STYLES broke up after a "heated argument" last week in the Virgin Islands. Taylor then came back to the states while Harry went off to party on RICHARD BRANSON'S private island. Neither one of them have commented.