It’s already turning out to be a heck of a year for Shania Twain.

The country gal from Timmins, Ontario, kicked off 2010 by running the Olympic torch through her hometown, and next week she’ll be one of the featured guest judges on “American Idol,” when it returns for its ninth season on Fox.

But before that, she’ll be interviewing Queen Rania of Jordan on CBC Radio on Friday. According to her Web site, Shania will guest host the CBC’s “The Current” radio show and is going to ask the Jordanian queen about her global charity for underprivileged youth, 1Goal.

The show will air at 8:30 a.m., EST. You can click here to listen live.

Hometown girl Shania Twain returned to Timmins, Ontario, on New Year’s Day to run the Olympic torch as it continued on its trek across The Great White North to Vancouver, B.C.

After the run, she donated the torch and the torch-bearer’s uniform she wore to the Shania Twain Centre, an exhibition center and gathering place that celebrates the singer’s rise to fame from the small mining town.

According to a post on her Web site, Twain revealed a minor modification she made to the torch when she handed it over to Timmins Mayor Tom Laughren: she put white hockey tape on the handle before her run.

She explained she did it “so it wouldn’t slip out of my hand. I thought that would be rather embarrassing if I dropped the torch!”

Twain also remarked that she was pleased to be back at the STC.

“It’s just such a huge honour,” she remarked. She added that she thinks about the centre often and says remembers her Timmins roots and “what it is for a small town girl to come from here.”

Country sensation and Canadian cutie Shania Twain will be running the Olympic torch through her hometown of Timmins, Ontario, tonight as the torch continues its journey to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, which kick off next month.

Twain asked fans on her Web site to follow her run of the torch live online (click here to see it), and wrote back in October that it was an “immense honour” to have been asked to participate.

“It is certain to be one of the most memorable experiences of my life,” she wrote. “I am proud to have been presented this unique opportunity and privilege and look forward to sharing the pride with my hometown and fellow Canadians as we are all proud of our country’s chance to host the upcoming winter games.”

The Canadian Press reports that despite protests that took place when the torch went through southern Ontario last month, Olympic officials say there are no signs of any demonstrations planned for Timmins on Friday and they don’t plan on boosting security when Twain carries the flame.

Watch her journey here.