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Billboard will be honoring some major women this year!

It has been announced that Cardi B has been named Woman of the Year at the 2020 Billboard’s Women in Music event, which will take place on Thursday, December 10th.

Billboard also announced that Jennifer Lopez will be honored with the prestigious Icon Award for her impact on the music industry and the greater artistic community.

The 2020 Hitmaker Award recipient this year will be Dolly Parton. while Dua Lipa will be receiving the Powerhouse Award, after her music dominated streaming, sales and radio this year.

Chloe x Halle will receive the Rising Star Award Presented by Honda, and Jessie Reyez will be honored with the American Express Impact Award.

Due to the pandemic, the 2020 Billboard’s Women in Music will be going virtual this year, with host Teyana Taylor. You can live stream the ceremony here.

The New England Journal of Medicine has confirmed that Dolly Parton partly funded the research for Moderna’s Coronavirus vaccine!

To be more specific, the Dolly Parton COVID-19 Research Fund donated one million dollars to the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation in Nashville, Tennessee to help with the discoveries associated with the research. Dolly made the donation when her friend, Dr Naji Abumrad, apparently told her about the developments they were making.

Moderna’s vaccine has been said to be almost 95% effective in early studies. There is hope that the vaccine could be approved for early use as soon as next month with distribution happening around the world as 2021 continues.

Here’s hoping that the vaccine is distributed ASAP and the world can begin to normalize!

Dolly Parton got candid about aging and her appearance during a conversation with Oprah Winfrey.

“I don’t think about my life in terms of numbers. First of all, I ain’t never gonna be old because I ain’t got time to be old. I can’t stop long enough to grow old,” Dolly, 74, said (via People.)

“I’m gonna look like a cartoon,” she joked. “I’ll have on the makeup. I’ll look as young as my plastic surgeons will allow me and [with] all the makeup and lighting and all that. But I think more than anything, it’s about what comes from inside you.”

“It’s an attitude and you gotta shine from within. Sometimes, that can make you feel young and make you seem young to other people,” she added.

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Dolly Parton is speaking to the rumors that her husband of 54 years, Carl Dean, does not exist.

“A lot of people have thought that through the years, because he does not want to be in the spotlight at all,” Dolly told ET. “It’s just not who he is. He’s like, a quiet, reserved person and he figured if he ever got out there in that, he’d never get a minute’s peace and he’s right about that.”

Dolly and Carl married in 1966 and he has never been part of the spotlight and very few photos of them together have been made public.

“I’ve always respected and appreciated that in him and I’ve always tried to keep him out of the limelight as much as I can,” she added. “He said, ‘I didn’t choose this world, I chose you, and you chose that world. But we can keep our lives separate and together.’ And we do and we have. We’ve been together 56 years, married 54.”

“Our joke about the fact, when people ask me why it’s lasted this long, I say, ‘Because I stay gone.’ And there’s a lot of truth in that — the fact that we’re not in each other’s faces all the time,” Dolly continued. “But we do have a great respect and admiration for each other. We both have a great sense of humor. So, we have a lot of fun.”

Dolly‘s husband once said something that did absolutely shock Jennifer Aniston!

Stephen Colbert was brought to tears by Dolly Parton on The Late Show tonight (October 20).

The talk show host had to remove his glasses and wipe away tears after Dolly, 74, sang a few verses of a song her own mom used to sing to her and her siblings.

“Mama used to sing all those songs brought over from the old world. Mama was a good singer too, and she would just sing a capella all the time,” Dolly shared during her interview via Zoom. “So many of those songs were sad, and as I say, some of them just ‘plum pitiful.’”

Dolly recalled that one song always spoke to her in particular and it was called “‘Bury Me Beneath the Willow.’ It was about a girl that was going to get married, and her boyfriend left her at the altar or whatever, so she died, of course—she killed herself, I suppose.”

It was then she sung the verses: “Bury me beneath the willow, under the weeping willow tree, where he may know where I am sleeping and perhaps he’ll weep for me. But where oh where can he be? He’s gone to seek him another bride, he cares no more for me.”

After her impromptu performance, she and the audience watched as Stephen began to tear up and he removed his glasses to wipe his eyes.

“Are you cryin’?” she asked.

Stephen replied, “I have to say… like a lot of Americans, I’m under a lot of stress now, Dolly! You got under my tripwire right there, I’ll tell you… that was pretty beautiful.”

“Mom would cry, we’d cry, those old songs were just amazing,” she added.

Watch the moment below:

If you missed it, Dolly opened up about some of her plans for her upcoming 75th birthday. See what they are here…

Dolly Parton has revealed that there have been talks of her posing for Playboy.

During her appearance on the Scott Mills & Chris Stark Show on BBC Radio 5 Live over the weekend, the 74-year-old legendary country singer opened up about her plans to work with the long running men’s magazine.

“Yeah, I just might do it,” Dolly shared, saying that it will only happen “if I can do it in good taste.”

She added, “[If] they want it [and] we’ll do it along with a really good interview inside. So, yeah, we’ve talked about it.”

Dolly first posed in a black bunny suit on the cover of Playboy in the October 1978 issue.

Here’s what you should know about Dolly‘s next movie…

Dolly Parton is bringing Christmas to Netflix!

The 74-year-old entertainer’s song “Christmas On The Square” – off of her upcoming holiday album A Holly Dolly Christmas – will be turned into a movie on the streaming site.

Dolly will produce the movie, and star in it alongside Christine Baranski, Jenifer Lewis, Treat Williams, and Jeanine Mason. Grey’s Anatomy star Debbie Allen will be directing the movie.

Christmas On The Square follows Christine as Regina, “a rich and nasty woman who returns to her small hometown after her father’s death to evict everyone and sell the land to a mall developer — right before Christmas. However, after listening to stories of the local townsfolk, reconnecting with an old love, and accepting the guidance of an actual angel (Parton), Regina starts to have a change of heart,” according to THR.

Christmas On The Square will be released on Netflix on November 22!