Tabloid target Eddie Cibrian joining "CSI: Miami"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Eddie Cibrian, who kept the tabloids busy recently because of an alleged affair with country singer LeAnn Rimes, will join the cast of CBS' veteran crime drama "CSI: Miami" as a series regular.

He will play a new character, an officer from the LAPD's Hollywood division who joins the team in Miami.

"CSI: Miami" begins its eighth season in the fall. In the seventh-season finale's cliffhanger, the life of forensic team member, Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez), was left hanging in the balance. According to the show's producers, Rodriguez will return next season.

Cibrian next stars in the Hallmark Channel's original movie "Healing Hands." In the film, which premieres November 21, Cibrian plays a an ordinary guy who gains the ability to heal people with his hands after he falls off a ladder and hits his head.

(Editing by Dean Gooodman at Reuters)