Reba McEntire Celebrates Fiancé Rex Linn’s 70th Birthday: ‘You’ll Always Be My Sugar Tot’

Yamillah HurtadoFri, November 13, 2026 at 8:34 PM UTC

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Rex Linn and Reba McEntire at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 1, 2026Credit: John Shearer/Getty -

Reba McEntire shared a birthday tribute to fiancé Rex Linn

“You’ll always be my Sugar Tot,” she wrote in the caption of her Nov. 13 Instagram post

The Happy’s Place stars got engaged in December 2024

Reba McEntire is celebrating fiancé Rex Linn on his milestone birthday.

On Thursday, Nov. 13, the country star celebrated Linn’s 70th birthday with an Instagram tribute, along with snapshots of the pair enjoying coffee and a day out at a botanical garden.

“Happy birthday to the love of my life! Here’s to many more birthday coffee camps together,” McEntire, 71, wrote. “You’ll always be my Sugar Tot!”

The pair first met in 1991 while starring in Kenny Rogers’ film, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, but their relationship didn’t turn romantic until 2020.

Reba McEntire and Rex Linn at the 54th Annual CMA Awards in Nashville on Nov. 11, 2020Credit: ABC via Getty

“We kept in contact over the years; we both know the same people,” McEntire shared during a November 2020 appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. “So it was just like good friends getting back together and having dinner.”

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, they started “Coffee Camp,” a daily call where they caught up with one another.

“It was a very special relationship, us getting to know each other without any physical aspect to it at all,” McEntire told Linn on Living & Learning in October 2021. “We’d talk in the morning, we started ‘Coffee Camp’ while I was staying in Oklahoma. ... We haven’t missed a ‘Coffee Camp’ since March 16.”

Reba McEntire and Rex Linn at the Paley Honors Fall Gala in Los Angeles on Nov. 10, 2025Credit: Maya Dehlin Spach/Getty

While chatting with E! News on the red carpet at the 2025 Emmys in September, the couple confirmed their engagement. Speaking to PEOPLE for her October 2025 cover story, McEntire revealed Linn proposed to her in December 2024.

“I’ve never been loved by a man like Rex Linn,” McEntire said. “Rex is a very tender-hearted man, and I just love him with all my heart. He’s a good guy. Real bashful, though.”

The two are currently acting together on McEntire’s latest sitcom, Happy’s Place, which airs Fridays on NBC. “Getting to work with Rex, drive to work with Rex and do the show, the rehearsals, drive home, talk about it, rehearse together — that’s what’s really special for me,” McEntire said.

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