Reba McEntire and her longtime boyfriend, Rex Linn, got engaged in December 2024, but they didn’t officially confirm the news until this September, on the Emmys red carpet of all places. Reba told People there are a couple of reasons for that.

“We got engaged December the 24th, Christmas Eve at Leiper’s Fork [in Tennessee],” Reba told People for its current cover story. She and Rex were “going to make the announcement when we got back to LA in January.” But then, she noted, “the fires happened” — the deadly LA wildfires that destroyed over 18,000 homes and burned over 57,000 acres — and Reba decided, “It wasn’t appropriate.”

But after that, said Reba, “[T]he time never presented itself until the Emmys, when it just happened.”

As for the proposal, Reba, 70, described it as a “total surpr

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