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Reba McEntire shared a sweet new photo with boyfriend Rex Linn as the couple vacations in Italy. The beloved country legend posted a sunny snapshot on Instagram on Thursday (August 24) as she and Linn have “too much fun” together.
McEntire met Linn on the set of The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw in 1991. It wasn’t until January of 2020 — when McEntire, Linn and Melissa Peterman, the country artist’s former Reba costar, were working on Young Sheldon — that Linn texted McEntire to arrange plans to meet for dinner. Earlier this year, McEntire sat down with Jennifer Hudson for an interview on the Jennifer Hudson Show, where she reflected on her relationship with Linn and shared the inspiration behind their adorable nicknames for one another.
“So, we all went to dinner, had a good time, went down the street to a wine bar and they said, ‘well, I understand you’ve already had dinner, but we do have some good appetizers…we have tater tots,’” McEntire said at the time, and remembered her immediate, enthusiastic reaction to tater tots. “And so, Rex said, ‘that’s your nickname from here on out.’”
McEntire, who's set to release her new lifestyle book this fall, added that she calls him “sugar tot. We’re the tots… Sugar and tater. So, we’ve been together ever since.”
See the sweet photo of “the tots” in Italy here: