United Kingdom, Sept. 15 -- Reba McEntire and Rex Linn are engaged.

The 70-year-old country singer and the 68-year-old actor started dating in 2020 after they first met in the 1990s, following her mom Jacqueline Smith's death.

A source confirmed to People: "It happened a few months ago and they are very happy."

After Rex got back in touch with Reba following Jacqueline's death from cancer aged 93 in March, the country singer said the pair have been "inseparable ever since".

The Can't Even Get the Blues hitmaker recalled on NBC's Today show in October 2021: "In 2020, when Mama got sick, he called me.

"We'd gotten to see each other before because we're both on Young Sheldon.

"So starting in March of 2020, we just kept talking and visi...