Watch Reba McEntire Ask Rex Linn Out On 'Happy's Place' — And Get Rejected

Reba McEntire asked her real-life fiancé, Rex Linn, on a date during the new season of Happy’s Place; however, her character faced “a swift rejection” at first.

McEntire plays Bobbie on the NBC sitcom. She “builds up the courage” to ask Linn’s character, Emmett, a short-order cook, “out on a date, (but) he surprises her with a swift rejection,” NBC states. Bobbie nervously approached Emmett in the Happy’s Place kitchen and asked him if he wanted “to go on a date with me?”

“A date?” Emmett repeated, and ultimately replied, “no, thanks.”

Later, however, Bobbie discovers why Emmett turned her down and confronts him about it.

Bobbie is “a tough but lovable woman who inherits her late father’s Tennessee tavern - only to discover that her new co-owner is also the half-sister she never knew she had,” per NBC. “They couldn’t be more different, but they’ll navigate this new life together... because at Happy’s Place, everyone is family.” The cast of the show, which was created by Julie Abbott and Kevin Abbott, also includes Belissa Escobedo, Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Melissa Peterman, who also starred with McEntire on Reba.

McEntire said in an interview with iHeartCountry earlier this year that “it is very important to have heart in there,” when creating a successful sitcom. “You gotta laugh, but you gotta cry. You’ve got to hit all of those emotions.” The legendary country star and coach on The Voice said of her Happy’s Place cast, “we love each other. We respect each other’s opinion on things, their individual lifestyle, their background, their heritage. It’s a fun family.”

McEntire, 70, and Linn, 68, confirmed their engagement at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. They began dating five years ago, after reconnecting on the set of Young Sheldon in early 2020. McEntire said in a recent interview with PEOPLE that they’ve been engaged since Christmas Eve. She said the engagement “wasn’t planned at all. It was his choice. …He’s very romantic. Very romantic. It was up to him, totally. Yeah. I had no idea. It was a total surprise. It was Rex Linn timing. I mean, I totally was thrilled to death. And I asked him, I said, ‘well, when do you want to do this?’ He said, ‘oh…let’s have fun with the engagement time.’ So, we haven’t set a date or anything. We’re just enjoying each other.”