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When it comes to their wedding day, Reba McEntire and her fiancé, Rex Linn, want to focus on what’s most important to them.
“A Reba/Rex wedding is going to be very different,” the 70-year-old singer shared on the 3rd Hour of Today on Monday, Dec. 1. “It’s going to be low-key, lots of fun, lots of people, lots of food. Our big motto is just have fun.”
The couple, who began dating in 2020 after knowing each other since the ‘90s, got engaged last Christmas Eve, but waited to tell everyone.
“A lot of people did not know,” McEntire said of their engagement, which PEOPLE confirmed in September. “And when he asked me to marry him, it was Christmas Eve a year ago. So we were gonna announce it when we got back to L.A., but the fires happened. And there was not room for our joy in the devastating situation that everybody else was in.”
McEntire said they decided to wait to share the news — but when a reporter asked about her “fiancé” at the 2025 Emmys on Sept. 14, she “didn’t correct her” because it “sounded good to me.”
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McEntire was previously married to cattle rancher Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987. She later tied the knot with producer Narvel Blackstock in 1989, but the former couple divorced in 2015.
During an earlier Today show segment on Monday, McEntire corrected co-host Savannah Guthrie, who referred to Linn, 69, as her “husband.”
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“Now, wait a minute. Before everybody has a conniption fit at home, we’re just engaged,” McEntire noted.
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Guthrie, 53, apologized for her incorrect wording, and McEntire said she had to explain more for her own sake. “My family will go, ‘Wait, you didn’t tell us?!’ ” the singer said.
McEntire and Linn costar in the NBC sitcom Happy’s Place, where they also play an on-screen couple.
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“He is a workaholic, and he loves to rehearse,” the Voice coach said of her fiancé. “Me, not so much on the rehearsal part, so he really makes sure that I know my lines, that I’m ready to go when we have a tape day. We have a blast. We’re so grateful and thankful that we get to go to work together, work together, and then go home together.”
