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News of Reba McEntire and Rex Linn's engagement came during an interview on the red carpet at the 2025 Emmys

The couple started dating in 2020 during quarantine but met several decades prior

They also star in the NBC sitcom Happy's Place together

Reba McEntire and Rex Linn are getting married!

PEOPLE confirmed that the couple are engaged after an E! News reporter referred to them as fiancés on the 2025 Emmy Awards red carpet on Sunday, Sept. 14. McEntire, 70, and Linn, 68, first met in the 1990s but didn’t begin dating until 2020 , when they reconnected after the death of her mother and bonded during quarantine.

"In 2020, when Mama got sick, he called me," McEntire recalled on Today in October 2021. "We'd gotten to see each other before because we're bot

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