Reba McEntire and Rex Linn love scaring each other
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On “Today,” Reba McEntire told hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager that one of her and Rex Linn’s favorite pastimes is trying to scare the pants off each other.
She also shared her favorite method for almost giving her poor partner a heart attack.
“I’ll sit there for 10 minutes, waiting for him to come out of the bathroom,” she said. “Be down a dark hall and just be silhouetted. It scares him to death. I think that’s the funniest thing in the world.”
For Halloween in 2020, Linn enlisted some help to play a spooky prank on McEntire.
“He ordered from Costco a seven-foot werewolf with a motion sensor in it, and he put it in my bathroom,” the “And Still” singer recalled during a 2021 virtual event, as recapped by Country Now.
McEntire wasn’t thrilled about being greeted with a growl from the “Thriller”-esque creature. But after threatening to fire anyone who helped Linn plan the werewolf prank, she didn’t demand that he take it back to Costco.
Once the initial shock wore off, she was able to laugh about it. “I was pretty flattered that he went to all that trouble to scare me,” she said.
But it’s more fun to be on the other side of a hair-raising prank when you have a hairy monster at your disposal. “We took it to every place we could to scare everybody else,” McEntire continued. “We had a blast.”
