Reba McEntire, Rex Linn. Noam Galai/Getty Illustrations or photos
Reba McEntire is reminiscing about the working day virtually 4 yrs ago when her romance with boyfriend Rex Linn began.
McEntire, 69, and Linn, 67, in the beginning met on the set of Kenny Rogers’ 1991 film, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Attract. They reunited a few many years later in 2020 when they labored alongside one another on Young Sheldon, and their chemistry was electric.
“It was just like a magnet,” The Voice mentor instructed E! News in an job interview printed on Wednesday, April 9. Linn appears in the sequence as Principal Tom Petersen, and he met McEntire when she began a recurring job as June that 12 months. Immediately after the original spark, she remembered that they were aside for five months.
“We didn’t get to see each and every other from January ‘til June 16, but we created an intimacy by texting and conversing in excess of the telephone that we would not have gotten if we’d have been together all of that time,” McEntire recalled, incorporating that they’ve been “pretty much inseparable” because that reunion.
The 3-time Grammy winner claimed that not observing each other in man or woman for various months was actually a blessing that authorized them to not target entirely on physical attraction.
“You know the ins and outs of their identity and their faults,” she mentioned. “You really like them for the way they are, rather of it becoming a complete attraction and sizing them up for the reason that of look.”
Rex Linn and Reba McEntire. Bruce Glikas/WireImage
McEntire also told E! that Linn has a exclusive top quality that she loves: “He will make me giggle.”
When the pair very first achieved in 1991, McEntire was married to her second partner, Narvel Blackstock. Soon after 26 many years of marriage, they divorced in 2015. They share a single son, Shelby, 34. McEntire was beforehand married to Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987.
Immediately after two divorces, McEntire suggests she is open to marrying Linn.
“I’m actually fully commited to Rex,” she stated. “So if that’s one thing he feels completely potent about, that’s high-quality with me. He’s never been married before. So if he wants to experience that, I’m Ok with that.”
The county songs legend previously discussed that Linn was the vital to her coping with the most traumatic time in her lifetime, when her mother, Jacqueline McEntire, died in 2020 soon after a struggle with most cancers.
“When you have any person to share the grief with, when you have somebody to share the fun (and) the unfortunate times, it’s usually so a great deal superior,” McEntire reported on the Right now demonstrate in Oct 2023. “Rex is a extremely uplifting, optimistic gentleman, and I love him with all my coronary heart.”
