A few of Reba McEntire’s most well-known songs are about love, and the Queen of Nation — who’s performing the Nationwide Anthem throughout this 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl pregame — has been in a blissful relationship along with her boyfriend, Rex Linn, for greater than three years. As their romance took off in 2020 on the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2 couldn’t take pleasure in in-person dates for fairly a while. So, Reba saved Rex’s contact on her telephone as “Rex Linn, long-distance boyfriend,” and he or she hasn’t modified it since! Hold studying to search out out extra about their relationship and Reba’s previous marriages.
Charlie Battles
Reba and Charlie had been married from 1976 to 1987. The previous pair first met within the mid-Seventies whereas Reba was changing into a rising star. She was 21 years previous after they acquired married.
Since they ended their 11-year marriage, not a lot info has been launched concerning their relationship, and it’s nonetheless unclear why Reba and Charlie referred to as it quits
Narvel Blackstock
Narvel joined Reba as her guitarist within the Nineteen Eighties, and the duo developed a stable working relationship on the time. Since she was nonetheless married to Charlie, the “One Promise Too Late” singer didn’t begin relationship Narvel till she finalized her divorce from Charlie.
Narvel finally grew to become the handle of Reba’s band, they usually began relationship within the late Nineteen Eighties. In 1989, Reba and Narvel exchanged vows and welcomed their baby, son Shelby Blackstock, in 1990.
In 2015, Narvel shocked Reba when he filed for divorce. The nation music artist admitted she was surprised throughout an episode of her podcast, “Forging Your Personal Path.”
“The divorce was not my alternative. I didn’t need it in any respect,” Reba identified. “The individuals who had been actually caring for me and my firm [and] my profession left me. It was form of a, as I name, come-to-Jesus assembly. I needed to collect my put on with all.”
Anthony Lasuzzo
Reba and Anthony met in 2017 whereas Reba was on trip in Wyoming, and the Reba alum as soon as gushed over how “in love” they had been throughout a 2019 interview with PEOPLE.
“We’re completely in love … completely,” she advised the outlet earlier than joking, “I wouldn’t put up with any individual for 2 years if I wasn’t in love with ’em! The previous coronary heart’s nonetheless beating.”
Regardless of having fun with a blissful romance, Reba and Anthony finally break up in 2019.
Rex Linn
Though Rex and Reba fell in love in 2020, they first met in 1991 on the set of The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw. They didn’t keep up a correspondence typically till they reconnected in 2020 whereas engaged on Younger Sheldon.
Throughout a 2023 interview with TODAY, Reba recalled how Rex requested her out. “Rex texted me and stated, ‘You’re coming to LA? Let’s have dinner,’” she defined. “I don’t know what it was about it. … I needed to get in to see Rex so unhealthy I might hardly stand it. We had been inseparable.”
In September 2025, a number of retailers reported that Reba and Rex had been engaged.
