Country star Jimmy Wayne was left red-faced at an airport terminal - after a misunderstanding with officials left him handcuffed in his boxer shorts at the security gate.

The singer was scheduled to catch a flight from Oakland International Airport to his native Nashville on Thursday when he repeatedly set off the metal detector at the terminal's entrance.

And the star, who admits he was tired after catching little sleep, thought he was asked by the security guard to "take off his shorts."

He tells People.com, "I kept trying to get through and it would go off. Finally the TSA...