Reba McIntyre seriously thought about her first impression of her boyfriend.
Appearing on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’, McIntyre spoke about how she reunited with her current boyfriend, Rex Lynn, on the set of ‘Young Sheldon’ just before the coronavirus lockdown. Ta.
“We were all going to go out and have dinner, Melissa.” [Peterman] He says that was our first date, because I was like a magnet to Rex. I couldn’t get close enough to him,” she told Barrymore. We talked and communicated over the years and we had a mutual friend, Ed Gaylord, and we stayed in touch. But somehow that night was so special. ”
She has since told Barrymore that she asked Lynn why they didn’t take their relationship to the next level sooner and that Lynn replied, “Because you probably would have killed me.” Mr McIntyre did not dispute her own assumption, saying: “He’s a wild guy. He’s 12 years old.”
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Reba McEntire and Rex Lynn first met several years ago. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc Nation)
The singer and Lynne have been in a serious relationship in the past, with McIntyre married twice and Lynne engaged four times.
After dinner, McIntyre and Lynn went to a wine bar, where she excitedly revealed her love for tater tots. McIntyre recalled Lynn saying, “I’m known for giving people nicknames, and that’s your nickname.”
“During the pandemic, I was in Oklahoma with my sister Susie, and she said, ‘You know he gave you tater tots, I’ll give you sugar tots. “Sho,” she said. “So we’re toddlers, Sugar and Tater. What do you think? Aren’t they cute?”
The two also bonded over their mutual love for the Western lifestyle, explaining that they both wanted a career in rodeo but didn’t have much talent for it, so she went into music and he became an actor. Did.
McIntyre shared the cute nicknames she and Lynne have for each other. (Photo by Sara Jaye/Getty Images for SONIC)
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McIntyre and Lynn first met in 1991 when they co-starred in the film The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw, in which she co-starred with Kenny Rogers. The two were dating at the time, but they became friends when they met again on the set of Young Sheldon.
“It’s good to have someone to talk to and laugh with and have a buzz about what’s going on,” she said on an October 2020 episode of the Living & Learning podcast. , Funny story, he’s an actor and I’m an actress. And he’s very interested in my music. I’m very interested in his career. ”
Due to the pandemic, their relationship started long distance, with Lynn living in Los Angeles and McEntire living in Oklahoma and Nashville. After the “Fancy” singer met in January 2020, she told People in October 2023 that they didn’t meet in person until June of that year.
“So it was phone calls, Zoom, texting, so we really got to know each other before any physical contact,” she explained.
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McIntyre recently appeared on the final season of Big Sky with her boyfriend Rex Lynn. (Michael Moriatis/ABC via Getty Images)
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The two will continue to co-star on Big Sky, playing a married couple in the show’s third season. “Every scene was fun for me because she was working with her,” Lynn told Country Now in January 2023, adding that the two “winked at each other in the middle of the scene.” ” he added.
