Reba McEntire is preparing for a relaxed Christmas.

The “Fancy” singer recently opened up about her plans for the holiday season, including the unexpected way she plans to spend Christmas Day with her boyfriend Rex Linn.

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“Rex and I are going to watch a movie,” McEntire, 69, said E! News before The voice Final on Tuesday, December 10th. “We have our Christmas on Christmas Eve and he loves going to the movies, so we do it first thing in the morning before the crowds flock to the theaters.”

But McEntire is still planning a Christmas dinner with her boyfriend and insists that after the movie, “we’ll come back and have our meals.”

“You noticed I said ‘meals’ because we’re going to have lunch And Dinner and probably a midnight snack,” McEntire joked. “That will be our tradition.”

The country queen is dating Linn, her co-star Big sky and her new sitcom, Happy’s Placesince 2020, but the couple has known each other for much longer than four years.

McEntire first met Linn, 68, when she was filming a film in 1991. She was married to her at the time Narvel Blackstockthis was her second marriage after her first Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987. In 2015, she and Blackstock went their separate ways, and after remaining friends for all these years, she and Linn eventually developed a romance.

“He’s the love of my life,” she previously gushed PEOPLE in October 2022.

“We’re pretty much inseparable.”

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