Dolly Parton paid a visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday night (November 21) and and talked all about her first crush being Johnny Cash!
“He was the sexiest thing I’d ever seen, I was 13 years old. I was looking at him and I was feeling all these things that you feel,” the Country icon told Seth. “That’s the first time I really understood what sex appeal really was.”
Dolly Parton paid a visit to pal Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show on Wednesday (November 20), and treated him with a hilarious story about the early days of her fame and how she acquired her biggest assets.
The 73-year-old country icon talked about not having much money in her early days, but that she liked to take her mom and sisters out each week for a meal at the Pancake House.
“Once when I took them up there, we were in the restaurant and we were having our meal, and then this old man came over to our table,” Dolly recalled. “He sat down, and he was just talking to us and we were all laughing. We didn’t know him.”
“I said, ‘My grandpa?’ So that old man had come over and kind of scammed us. I said, ‘That was not my grandpa,’ but I paid it, of course,” Dolly continued. “So when we left, I walked down the street and he was standing there at the light. I went over to him and said, ‘I would have been happy to have paid your bill, but telling them that you’re my grandpa …’ And he took his walking stick and he started just beating me across the chest. Just as hard as he could. Just wham! Wham! Wham! Wham! And it hurt.”
Dolly gets Jimmy riled up with talk about her perfume, her Grand Ole Opry anniversary special, how her acrylic nails helped make 9 to 5 a hit, and a risqué story about getting more than she paid for at a pancake house.
When Fallon asked, what happened, Parton replied, “What do you mean, what happened? These two big lumps came up and they never did go down.”
Dolly Parton also discussed how her music inspired each episode of her Netflix series Heartstrings, and shared an update about the woman who was the inspiration for her hit “Jolene” and reads Jimmy‘s palm.
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The singers, ages 36, 73, and 64, respectively, hit the red carpet at the event held at the Music City Center on Wednesday (November 13) in Nashville, Tenn.
Nile Rodgers happily poses alongside Dolly Parton while attending the We Are Family Foundation Awards Ceremony held at Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday evening (November 5) in New York City.
The 67-year-old musician hosted the ceremony for the nonprofit organization he founded 18 years ago, and honored his good friend Jean Paul Gaultier along with Dolly Parton.
Also in attendance to show their support was model Coco Rocha and Nile Rodgers‘ partner, former magazine editor Nancy Hunt.
“He’s one of the most impactful designers in my career,” Coco Rocha said of Gaultier (via WWD). “In the early [Aughts] I had a chance to do an Irish dance down the runway at his show, which pushed my career into a different direction.”
Here’s a description: “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings is an anthology series that showcases the stories, memories, and inspirations behind her most beloved songs. New and classic Dolly music will score every episode. Each story will vary in tone, from love stories and inspirational tales to family dramas, westerns, and revenge comedies.”
Dolly Parton confirmed the unfortunate news while attending the world premiere of her upcoming Netflix series Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings on Tuesday (October 29) in Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
The original 1980 film followed three working women – the 73-year-old country star along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin – who live out their fantasy of getting even with their antagonistic boss (Dabney Coleman).
“[They've] dropped that whole idea. I don’t think we’re going to do the sequel,” Dolly revealed (via ET). “We never could get the script where it was enough different than the first one, and that one turned out so good.”
“We’re thinking we might do a completely different thing together, Jane, Lily and I,” Dolly added. “We may do something different altogether, but I don’t think we’ll continue with [the sequel].”
