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Reba McEntire<\/a> is getting hitched.<\/p>\n The country music star and her beau Rex Linn used the platform of the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards<\/a> to share the good news.<\/p>\n More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n The happy couple are, of course, co-stars in the NBC sitcom Happy\u2019s Place, in which McEntire plays the titular character Bobbie and Linn portrays the character Emmett.<\/p>\n McEntire confirmed their engagement during a red carpet interview with E! News<\/a> when the reporter referred to Linn as the singer\u2019s \u201cfianc\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re having a blast on \u2018Happy\u2019s Place\u2019 and so glad to be here tonight,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n 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, \u201cThank You for Being a Friend,\u201d alongside Little Big Town\u2019s Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman. She also presented the Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series.<\/p>\n The loved-up pair started dating in 2020, news of which McEntire shared by way of her podcast<\/a> Learning with Reba McEntire.<\/p>\n After calling him a \u201cvery, very sweetheart of a guy,\u201d McEntire revealed how the affair blossomed during the pandemic. \u201cWe\u2019ve been talking during the pandemic,\u201d she explained at the time. \u201cWe 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\u2019s a really good way to get to know people.\u201d<\/p>\n McEntire and Linn go way back, having reportedly met the set of the 1980 TV movie The Gambler.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. More from Billboard The happy couple are, of course, co-stars in the NBC sitcom Happy\u2019s Place, in which McEntire plays the titular character Bobbie and Linn portrays […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2022669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[29110,346014,371954,346671,42840,364657,349207],"class_list":["post-2022668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-billboard","tag-happys-place","tag-karen-fairchild","tag-primetime-emmy-awards","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-rex-linn","tag-titular-character"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Reba-McEntire-and-Rex-Linn-Announce-Engagement-at-2025-Primetime.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}