Reba McEntire says her real-life restaurant brought 'practicality' to ‘Happy’s Place’

Country music star and actress Reba McEntire is reflecting on how her real-life restaurant business influenced her character in ‘Happy’s Place.’ In a new interview, McEntire recalled the last three-and-a-half years of running her own restaurant. In ‘Happy Place’, Reba McEntire stars as Bobbie, a woman who inherits her father’s restaurant and must co-manage it with a newly discovered half-sister.While speaking to People, the actress said, “It's helped me bring a practicality to the show, I think.” She notes that having the experience lets one know that if “you're going to be one thing in the kitchen, you wouldn't be doing another thing somewhere else, just because of the way things work.”The second season of the sitcom finishes this month. In February, NBC announced that it had been picked up for a third season, news that “tickled” McEntire. “We just have the best time, we've become like a family,” she says. “The fans are thrilled, they love having Melissa (Peterman) and I back together,” she says. “But it's not just us. We have the best stand-ins, we have the best background actors, and they're consistent with us, they keep coming back. We're so hungry to get back together for the third season, just to see each other.”She's also thrilled to be working again with Linn, whom she also starred alongside in Big Sky. “We were the bad guys in that, so it's fun to be a good guy with him,” McEntire says.Season 2 began airing in early 2025, with production continuing into 2026 before the third season's official announcement.