Travis Kelce is off the market thanks to Tayor Swift — and Reba McEntire is mourning her dreams of landing the NFL superstar.
"Oh, my gosh, I am so mad at her because I had a crush on him!" McEntire jokingly told TODAY. "Now I can't have a crush anymore because he's dating her."
She adds that her actual boyfriend, Rex Linn, isn't fazed by her crush on the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. "Isn't that sad?" quipped McEntire, who became the latest coach to join the singing competition reality series "The Voice."
McEntire has long been a fan of the Chiefs and reminisced about watching Kelce's games with Linn.
"We were watching him play because I love the Chiefs and I love Patrick, and I'd say, 'Oh, he's so cute. Oh, he's so cute,'" she says.
But her dreams were quashed by Swift, whose relationship with Kelce has untold hordes of Swifties tuning in to watch the Chiefs play for the first time in football history — just to catch a quick crowd shot of the pop star.
"When he and Taylor started dating, Rex said, 'Your boyfriend's got another girlfriend.' I said, 'Rub it in.'"
Jokes aside, McEntire and Linn have been going strong since 2020. The couple first met in 1991 and reconnected three decades later on the set of "Young Sheldon."
"Rex texted me and said, 'You're coming to LA? Let's have dinner,'" McEntire recalls. "I don't know what it was about it. ... I wanted to get in to see Rex so bad I could hardly stand it. We were inseparable."
"He's my biggest cheerleader," she added. "He's encouraged me the whole time and he even gives me ideas to make things better. His enthusiasm really does pep all of us up, and I appreciate him very much."
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