Reba McEntire and Rex Linn’s Relationship: Inside the Country Star and Actor’s Romance (Including Their Adorable Nicknames for Each Other!)

Five years since they first started dating, Reba McEntire is still smitten pinch her boyfriend, Rex Linn.

Though nan brace first met while starring successful a Kenny Rogers movie together successful nan early 1990s, their relationship did not move romanticist until 2020.

"Rex and I get on successful each aspect," she told Fox News Digital of Rex up of nan 2025 ACM Awards, which she is group to big for a grounds 18th time.

"He's a amended navigator than I am, truthful I for illustration that, for sure. We emotion Longhorns, we emotion nan cowboy measurement of life, cowgirl measurement of life, and we some sewage into nan intermezo industry," she continued. "He's an actor. I'm a singer. I emotion to act. Now we enactment together."

The "Rumor Has It" vocalist went connected to telephone her narration pinch Rex nan "perfect union," adding, "We get on great. We do reason now. We reason a lot, but we person nosy doing that too."

From their reddish carpet debut and their adorable nicknames for each other, to costarring connected Happy's Place, here's everything to cognize astir Reba McEntire and Rex Linn's relationship.

Reba and Rex met connected nan group of a Kenny Rogers movie

Reba and Rex initially met successful 1991, connected nan group of nan Kenny Rogers TV movie The Gambler Returns: The Luck of nan Draw.

"We kept successful interaction complete nan years, we some cognize nan aforesaid people," Reba revealed during a November 2020 quality connected Watch What Happens Live pinch Andy Cohen. "So it was conscionable for illustration bully friends getting backmost together and having dinner."

"Then we started texting and talking connected nan telephone and getting to cognize each different amended during nan quarantine," she continued.

They started making love successful January 2020

During an October 2020 section of her podcast, Living & Learning, Reba revealed she was making love Rex, calling him "a very, very sweetheart of a guy."

They went retired to meal earlier that year, successful January 2020, and past grew person erstwhile they started talking, texting, and FaceTiming during nan COVID-19 pandemic.

"It's bully to person a personification to talk to, laughter with, get into subjects astir what's going on," Reba shared. "It's conscionable awesome getting to talk to personification who I find very interesting, very funny, very smart and is willing successful me, too."

During quarantine successful March 2020, they started "Coffee Camp," a regular telephone during which they would drawback up.

"It was a very typical relationship, america getting to cognize each different without immoderate beingness facet to it astatine all," Reba told Rex connected Living & Learning in October 2021. "We'd talk successful nan morning, we started 'Coffee Camp' while I was staying successful Oklahoma ... We haven't missed a 'Coffee Camp' since March 16."

Rex replied, "I was successful California, she was successful Tennessee and sometimes my 'Coffee Camp' started astatine 3 a.m. but man I person ne'er missed one; I don't wanna miss one."

Reba and Rex made their reddish carpet debut successful November 2020

When Reba co-hosted nan CMA Awards pinch Darius Rucker successful November 2020, she brought on a typical date: her boyfriend, Rex. The arena marked nan couple's reddish carpet debut.

"We're both excited that he's going to beryllium location pinch me," Reba told PEOPLE up of nan awards ceremony.

Since their CMA Awards debut, nan mates person attended aggregate reddish carpets and events together. They moreover managed to support it tiny while dressed up arsenic creepy Beetlejuice characters erstwhile they appeared connected The Kelly Clarkson Show successful October 2024.

They've acted together

The brace first met while appearing successful a 1990s TV movie, but they person shared nan surface aggregate times successful caller years.

Reba and Rex reconnected connected nan group of Young Sheldon and past went connected to costar successful nan Lifetime original movie The Hammer. In 2022, they played a joined couple, Buck and Sunny Barnes, connected nan 3rd play of ABC's Big Sky.

The 2 are presently acting together connected Reba's latest sitcom, Happy's Place. The bid follows Bobbie (Reba), who inherits her father's barroom aft his death. Rex plays Emmett, nan restaurant's short-order cook.

"We're moving lines constantly," Rex told PEOPLE astir working with his longtime girlfriend. "But each erstwhile successful a while, I'll sneak by for a speedy kiss, conscionable a peck connected nan feature and support connected moving. It's fun."

They person saccharine nicknames for each different

Rex calls Reba "tater tot" — a pet sanction that started their very first meal aft reuniting.

"On nan paper was tater tots, and I conscionable went nuts because I emotion tater tots. Rex is celebrated for giving group nicknames, and he said, 'That's yours,' " Reba recalled connected Living & Learning.

"My nicknames are legendary. They instrumentality pinch people, but I ne'er premeditate them," Rex explained. "They ever person to coming themselves, and that was nan cleanable moment."

Reba is "tater tot," while Rex is "sugar tot" — a nickname that Reba's sister, Susie, primitively suggested.

"When we were successful quarantine, I was successful Oklahoma, location connected nan location spot and Rex had [started] calling maine tater tot. Susie said, 'Tater tot, good why don't you conscionable telephone him sweetener tot?' and truthful it stuck," nan singer said while co-hosting Today pinch Hoda & Jenna successful April 2023. "So, we're nan tots. Sugar and tater. Pretty silly, but we emotion it."

Reba and Rex person been "pretty overmuch inseparable" since they first started making love

Reba and Rex person known each different since nan early '90s, but they reconnected aft the death of Reba's mother, Jacqueline.

"In 2020 erstwhile Mama sewage sick, he called me," she said connected Today successful October 2021. "We'd gotten to spot each different earlier because we're some on Young Sheldon. So starting successful March of 2020, we conscionable kept talking and visiting and yet sewage together, spot each different successful June."

"And we've been pretty overmuch inseparable ever since," she added.