Watch: Dolly Parton’s Most Memorable E! News Interviews With Jennifer Aniston & MoreThere’s no shortage of reasons fans will always love Dolly Parton. With a heart as massive as her legendary talent, the 11-time Grammy winner was as known for delivering 332 million free books to kids through her Imagination Library as she was infectious hits like “9 to 5,” “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You,” the belt-it-out ballad she penned some two decades before Whitney Houston made it her own. And that was just one piece of the endearing Dolly Parton puzzle. Recognized for her hourglass shape and never-not-dolled-up vibe, Parton proved she was in on the joke, cracking in her 2023 memoir that she slept in her makeup because she didn’t want husband Carl Dean (who died in 2025) to see her going to bed “looking like a hag.”Basically, she summed up to Allure in 2021, “You’re not gonna catch me out in the streets bare-faced unless you’ve caught me in the morning when I’m cleaning my face and getting ready to put it on again.”Perhaps that’s why she told loved ones ahead of her death at age 80, following a brief battle with cancer, that she wanted to be forever encased… Read More
