Reba McEntire Is Engaged To Longtime Love Rex Linn

Congratulations are in order for Reba McEntire and Rex Linn! The longtime couple confirmed their engagement in an interview with E! News correspondent Zuri Hall on the Emmys red carpet Sunday night. 

“We’re having a blast on Happy’s Place and so glad to be here tonight,” McEntire said after Hall referred to her castmate as her fiancé.  

A source reportedly told People that their engagement “happened a few months ago” and they are “very happy.” 

Linn and McEntire first met on the set of the Kenny Rogers movie, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, in 1991, though they didn’t start dating until 2020. 

“It was just like a magnet,” McEntire previously told E! News‘ Francesca Amiker of their reunion. “We didn’t get to see each other from January ’til June 16, but we created an intimacy by texting and talking over the telephone that we wouldn’t have gotten if we’d have been together all of that time. So it was very special, and it was a great way of finding out about each other without ever touching. And we’ve been pretty much inseparable since June 16th, 2020.”

The country legend had admitted to once having lost faith in the institution of marriage, though she never ruled out the possibility of getting married for a third time. 

“I’ve been married twice. After the second one dissolved, I don’t have much faith in being bound by a piece of paper or a ring,” McEntire explained back in 2024. “But I’m truly committed to Rex, so if that’s something he feels totally strong about, that’s fine with me. He’s never been married before. So, if he wants to experience that, I’m OK with that.”

Congratulations y’all!