{"id":2046698,"date":"2025-09-24T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2046698"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:01:21","slug":"their-love-story-is-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/their-love-story-is-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Their Love Story Is Sweet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After five years of dating, <strong>Reba McEntire<\/strong> and <strong>Rex Linn<\/strong> are getting married \u2013 and the country singer has her good friend <strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong> to thank for the proposal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Courtesy PR&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"716\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/PPKJaTk.7PiSmUMyne42RQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTcxNjtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/national_examiner_239\/6e81be648e432fc80a35bd8d176cbed5\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy PR<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The \u201cJolene\u201d legend, 79, adores their romance and had been telling Rex to stop dragging his feet. Dolly saw Rex \u201cignoring Reba\u2019s hints about wanting to get engaged, and it infuriated Dolly,\u201d says an insider. \u201cHe joked that they\u2019re like a married couple already and don\u2019t need a ring to prove it, but Dolly\u2019s not afraid to tell it like it is, and she thought he should pop the question already. And he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\" &lt;span class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Instagram\/Reba McEntire&lt;\/span&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"927\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/sihJ6TwzAb52NsRH_AA_pA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTkyNztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/national_examiner_239\/da829960dcade4c4553dacb59b9cc3f8\"\/><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instagram\/Reba McEntire<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">News of their engagement broke after a reporter on the 2025 Emmy Awards red carpet on Sept. 14 referred to them as fianc\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Reba, 70, and Rex, 68, first met in the 1990s but didn\u2019t begin dating until 2020, when they reconnected after the death of her mother and bonded during quarantine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTheir love story,\u201d says the insider, \u201cis sweet. They are both very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five years of dating, Reba McEntire and Rex Linn are getting married \u2013 and the country singer has her good friend Dolly Parton to thank for the proposal. Courtesy PR The \u201cJolene\u201d legend, 79, adores their romance and had been telling Rex to stop dragging his feet. Dolly saw Rex \u201cignoring Reba\u2019s hints about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046699,"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":[379444,22641,42840,364657],"class_list":["post-2046698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-american-broadcasting-companies","tag-dolly-parton","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-rex-linn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Their-Love-Story-Is-Sweet.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046698","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=2046698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}