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Reba McEntire<\/a> and longtime love Rex Linn<\/a> are getting married!<\/p>\n The couple\u2019s engagement was confirmed after an E! News<\/em> reporter referred to them as fianc\u00e9s on the red carpet at the 2025 Emmy Awards on Sunday (Sept. 14).<\/p>\n A rep for the country legend later confirmed the happy news to People<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n McEntire, 70, and Linn, 68, have been dating since 2020 \u2014 but their connection goes back much further, all the way to the early ’90s.<\/p>\n The “Fancy” singer and Linn first met in 1991 while filming The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw<\/em>, a TV movie starring Kenny Rogers.<\/p>\n At the time, they were just co-stars<\/a> \u2014 but that early friendship planted a seed.<\/p>\n Decades later, they reconnected during a difficult chapter in the country icon\u2019s life.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2020, when Mama got sick, he called me,<\/a>\u201d McEntire shared during a 2021 appearance on Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>38 Famous Songs Every Country Fan Should Know by Heart<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe’d gotten to see each other before because we’re both on Young Sheldon<\/em>,” she continued. “So starting in March of 2020, we just kept talking and visiting and finally got together\u2026 and we’ve been pretty much inseparable ever since.”<\/p>\n Now, the newly engaged couple star alongside each other in NBC\u2019s Happy\u2019s Place<\/em><\/a>, where McEntire plays Bobbie McAllister, the tough-yet-tender owner of a Tennessee bar she inherits from her father.<\/p>\n Linn plays Emmett, her longtime friend and right-hand man.<\/p>\n Off-screen, Linn has called working with McEntire \u201ca dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are best friends. We wanna cross the finish line with each other<\/a> in a relationship,\u201d he told WBIR Channel 10.<\/p>\n Fans hoping for their TV counterparts to take the next step might not be out of luck.<\/p>\n In a behind-the-scenes tease for Season 2<\/a>, Linn playfully suggested the show could mirror real life.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s rumors that maybe Emmett and Bobbie get together,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know that for a fact\u2026 but it would be great for Bobbie if she was with Emmett. I mean, that\u2019s how I look at it.\u201d<\/p>\n Happy\u2019s Place<\/em> returns to NBC on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, at 8 PM ET\/PT.<\/p>\n In the meantime, fans can celebrate a real-life love story that\u2019s been three decades in the making \u2014 and a country icon<\/a> who continues to live (and love) on her own terms.<\/p>\n See pictures from Reba McEntire’s life and career, through the years. So many memories. So many hairstyles. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nFrom Co-Stars to Soulmates<\/h3>\n
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