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Reba McEntire celebrated her 70th birthday back in March, an age when many people may be thinking about retiring, but the country-music and TV great still thinks she\u2019s got another couple of decades left before retirement.<\/p>\n
When asked when she might retire in a new interview with People<\/a>, McEntire replied frankly, \u201cI don\u2019t know when. It could be in 20 years.\u201d (That would put McEntire at the ripe age of 90.) She added: \u201cI think I\u2019ll know when it\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n McEntire went on to recall how she and Dolly Parton talked \u201can awful lot\u201d about retirement way back in the early 2000s, when Parton was a guest star on McEntire\u2019s hit sitcom, Reba. \u201cI said, \u2018Are you going to retire?,\u2019\u201d McEntire remembered. \u201c[Parton] said, \u2018Why would I? What in the world could I do and have as much fun as what I\u2019m doing in this job right now?\u2019 I agree with her a hundred percent. Slow down, maybe, but no plans of retiring.\u201d<\/p>\n McEntire is, of course, as busy as ever. She\u2019s currently doing her fourth stint as a coach<\/a> on The Voice, which is in the middle of its 28th season. And the second season of her new sitcom, Happy\u2019s Place, is about to launch on Nov. 7 on NBC.<\/p>\n \u201cI love this chapter in my life. I\u2019m very grateful,\u201d McEntire told People.<\/p>\n Back in May, McEntire was also enlisted to host the 60th Academy of Country Music Awards<\/a>, marking her 18th time at the helm of the awards-show institution. To open the big anniversary show<\/a>, McEntire performed a decade-spanning medley, saluting one Song of the Year winner from each of the past six decades.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’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 celebrated her 70th birthday back in March, an age when many people may be thinking about retiring, but the country-music and TV great still thinks she\u2019s got another couple of decades left before retirement. When asked when she might retire in a new interview with People, McEntire replied frankly, \u201cI don\u2019t know when. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106772,"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":[22641,42840,314737],"class_list":["post-2106771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dolly-parton","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-rolling-stone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Reba-McEntire-Says-She-Might-Be-Ready-to-Retire-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106771","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=2106771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106773,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106771\/revisions\/2106773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}