Cibrian denies affair with Rimes

US actor Eddie Cibrian has said that reports of an affair with singer LeAnn Rimes are fabricated.

Cibrian, who is married to model Brandi Glanville, denied Us Weekly claims that he and Rimes are lovers off screen as well as in upcoming TV movie Northern Lights.

"Other than being friends and two actors who were romantically intertwined in a movie-for-television we filmed last fall, there is no truth to the reporting initiated by Us magazine," he told Access Hollywood.

"It is a fabricated story that is using random snapshots as connective tissue to create a scandalous relationship."

The Us Weekly story contained pictures from a video security camera that allegedly show Cibrian and Rimes holding hands and kissing on a dinner date in Laguna Beach, California on March 7. It also claimed that they met for a "three-hour tryst" at the Malibu Beach Inn on March 14.

Rimes, who has been married to dancer Dean Sheremet for seven years, responded to the allegations on her website yesterday.