Reba McEntire and Rex Linn Announce Engagement at 2025 Primetime Emmys
The country music star and her beau Rex Linn used the platform of the 2025 Emmy Awards to share the good news.
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Reba McEntire is getting hitched.
The country music star and her beau Rex Linn used the platform of the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards to share the good news.
The happy couple are, of course, co-stars in the NBC sitcom Happy’s Place, in which McEntire plays the titular character Bobbie and Linn portrays the character Emmett.
McEntire confirmed their engagement during a red carpet interview with E! News when the reporter referred to Linn as the singer’s “fiancé.”
“We’re having a blast on ‘Happy’s Place’ and so glad to be here tonight,” she responded. In another giveaway, McEntire was spotted wearing a black ring on her left ring finger. A rep for McEntire confirms to Billboard that the couple are now engaged.
Later, McEntire took the stage at the Ovation Theater at L.A. Live for the Golden Girls 40th anniversary tribute, for which she joined in to sing the theme song, “Thank You for Being a Friend,” alongside Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman. She also presented the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series.
The loved-up pair started dating in 2020, news of which McEntire shared by way of her podcast Learning with Reba McEntire.
After calling him a “very, very sweetheart of a guy,” McEntire revealed how the affair blossomed during the pandemic. “We’ve been talking during the pandemic,” she explained at the time. “We had dinner with Rex, was it in January? And then February, on it was the Covid pandemic, and we were talking, texting, FaceTime. And that’s a really good way to get to know people.”
McEntire and Linn go way back, having reportedly met the set of the 1980 TV movie The Gambler.
The singer, actress and The Voice coach split from her husband of 26 years, Narvel Blackstock, in 2015. Prior to that, she was married to Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987. Linn has never walked down the aisle.
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