On Sunday, November 13th, Reba McEntire’s boyfriend, Rex Linn celebrated his birthday and McEntire talked about how thankful she was to be with him for his big day. Linn turned 66 years old. Alongside the picture she shared of them she wrote, “Happy birthday to the love of my life, So glad we get to celebrate together.” The picture that was included in the post was taken backstage at the CMA Awards.
The couple reconnected in 2020, they originally met in 1991 on the set of The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw. McEntire once told People that, “I’d known Rex since ’91 when we worked on the movie The Gambler Returns with Kenny Rogers, Then in January 2020, I saw him again when I shot an appearance on the TV show Young Sheldon, which he is on. He said, ‘Let’s have dinner when you get through.’ And I said, ‘OK!’ He made me laugh my butt off on our first date, which we didn’t even know was a date.”
Currently the couple are working on the television show Big Sky together and play a husband and wife duo on Season 3 of the crime series.
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