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I ask if she would consider a no- make- up selfie. ![]() It is this relentless work discipline that has helped the 6. She has written and recorded more than 3,0. Jolene, 9 To 5 and Islands In The Stream – and sold an astonishing 1. I don't have maids or servants and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 2. Dolly She’s a hugely shrewd and successful businesswoman, too, who owns everything from radio stations and restaurants to her own Tennessee theme park, Dollywood, which has rollercoasters, a country fair and a museum devoted to Parton. She’s first and foremost a family girl – Parton keeps a remarkable 1. Parton clan on her payroll – but life is not all front- porch sweetness and dappled light. She has a secret side to her that is rarely revealed to the outside world: she has been married to a man who hasn’t been seen in public for almost 5. 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Get one free game when buying one game of bowling at the Montreal Forum; Get a 25% discount applicable to the regular $20 admission. ![]() In June, Parton will make her first appearance at Glastonbury, where she will be playing in the Sunday early- evening legends’ slot, following in the footsteps of James Brown, Shirley Bassey and her old friend Kenny Rogers. If you want to know why that could be one of the highlights of this year’s festival, you only have to imagine Parton belting out her classics in a sun- drenched field with 8. Although she has already signed up to play, it quickly becomes clear that she hasn’t really done her homework. Do you know about the mud? I ask, pulling out my i. Pad, which I have helpfully loaded with some particularly appalling images of past Glastonbury festivals.! Urgh!’ she shrieks, pointing at an image of a couple swimming in mud. When I ask if she will be investing in a pair of wellingtons, she shakes her head. The fourth of 1. 2 children, she was raised in rural Tennessee in a two- room wood cabin without electricity or indoor plumbing and where the children slept four and five to a bed. Years later she would buy and renovate that cabin, and there is a replica of it at Dollywood. The family were so poor that as a treat, Parton’s mum would make . Her husband Carl Dean has maintained an astonishingly low profile. Meanwhile, Parton’s father, an illiterate sharecropper, would go with his sons to shoot animals to eat: bears, turtles, groundhogs and squirrels. ![]() So what does squirrel taste like?? Very sweet and tender, like the breast meat of a chicken.’ Dolly still owns guns to this day. ![]() But surely it must have been terrible being that poor? That’s family, that’s home. But when I started to grow I realised I didn’t want to sleep in a bed with four people – unless I had chosen them!’Parton was a musical prodigy who started writing songs at the age of five and was singing on radio and television when she was only ten. At 1. 2 she was performing at the legendary country music stage in Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry. The day after she graduated from high school, 1. Parton left her home and headed to Nashville determined to become a star. A spectacularly beautiful young woman with that soon- to- be- world- famous figure, she admits she would meet music industry men who offered to help her career if she would sleep with them.'Most people can't understand two women being so close and devoted to each other. We've never been lovers, just good old pure sweet fun- loving friends,' said Dolly of her childhood friend Judy Ogle . Two years later, the couple were married. Yet despite Parton being one of the most famous women in the world, Dean has maintained an astonishingly low profile. A blurry photograph from their wedding in 1. Parton rarely talks about him, but she opened up to Event about daily life inside their marriage, and how her husband copes with a wife who is often away. I had grown up with brothers and uncles so I understood the nature of men,' said Dolly (pictured in 1. Do you watch the pennies?? I told him, “If I. I am dreaming and hoping and working. I am going to be gone a lot.” It has never been a problem.’ And why is he so rarely spotted? It’s a good gig for him!’ Dolly will make her first appearance at Glastonbury, following in the footsteps of friend Kenny Rogers. Dean’s. invisibility has prompted repeated speculation – always denied – that. Dolly is actually in a lesbian relationship with her childhood friend. Judy Ogle, who accompanies her everywhere and is in the studio, sitting. In her. autobiography, My Life And Other Unfinished Business, Parton wrote. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha!’Dean and Parton discovered that they could not have children when the singer was in her early 3. Dolly is a hugely shrewd and successful businesswoman, who owns everything from radio stations and restaurants to her own Tennessee theme park, Dollywood. I was focused on my career and if I’d had kids, I would have been more focused on that, so I probably would not have been a star. It was just not meant to be.’This summer Parton’s British fans will have a chance to see her on tour as she supports Blue Smoke, the 4. I love buying costume make- up and glitter and lipstick there, and I really enjoy going to Indian restaurants. I just love curry!’Parton is a huge Led Zeppelin fan and has recorded her own version of Stairway To Heaven. When I tell her that Robert Plant is also playing at Glastonbury, she shrieks with excitement. At the same time as me?’ Don’t rule out the possibility of a guest appearance with Plant or the White Stripes’ Jack White, who is also playing at the festival and who has covered Jolene. I never felt so bad in my life because that bill must have been outrageous.’Dolly's Nashville home. It's a good gig for him!' she said. She clearly adores White but is less effusive about Bob Dylan, whose Don’t Think Twice (It’s All Right) she covers on the new album. I love his music but he’s a weird buckaroo.’Although she is now nearing 7. Does she believe in life after death? I am expecting to go somewhere far better than this, and I have enjoyed this.’Before she goes I ask one final question: would she agree that her outrageous look is also a form of armour to stop us getting to know the real Parton. They don’t come much deeper or smarter than Dolly Parton.
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