How Dolly Parton has rolled back the years after fans go wild at her midriff-showing performance at Thanksgiving NFL game
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Dolly Parton wowed the crowds tuning into her half-time performance at the Washington Commanders vs Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving game in Dallas on Thursday.
The Queen of Country, 77, belted out her classic hits – including Jolene and 9 to 5 – in front of an adoring crowd at the AT&T Stadium during the mid-match interlude.
Channelling her inner cheerleader for the appearance, Dolly donned a white hotpants and low-cut blue blouse combo, wearing diamantes across her bare midriff.
With her blonde hair flowing, the Queen of Country also wore her trademark talons long and red, with an impressive pair of hoop earrings, and a bright scarlet lip completely the youthful look.
Good golly Miss Molly! Parton, 77, pictured during her half-time performance at the Washington Commanders vs Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving game in Dallas on Thursday
The singer donned a cheerleader-inspired combo, showing off her midriff in white shorts and a low-cut blue blouse
Donning impressive sized hoop earrings, the Queen of Country also wore her trademark talons long and red
The I Will Always Love You singer, just three years from her 80th birthday, was light on her feet as she shimmied across the stage, proving age is only a number.
The star, who was born into poverty in the city of Sevierville in Sevier County – growing up with six brothers and five sisters – in Tennessee’s Smokey Mountains has been an open book about how she has defied ageing.
She once joked her desire to stay looking young has ‘really aged’ her plastic surgeons – and has been candid about following fad diets through the years and taking her wardrobe inspiration from a local prostitute in Sevierville.
Here, FEMAIL looks at how the country star maintains her glamorous look in her eighth decade…
Fresh faced: Parton pictured in 1967 after getting her early break on The Porter Wagoner Show at 21; she grew up with 11 siblings in poverty in the Smokey Mountain town of Sevierville
The singer, 77, has always been honest about how she keeps her youthful looks
THE DOLLY DIET
The singer has shared frequently over the decades how she keeps trim, and has admitted falling for diet fads. In her documentary, Dolly Parton: The Queen of Country, she revealed that she used to be a yo-yo dieter.
‘Dietin’ Dolly would go on liquid protein, Scarsdale, Atkins, the water diet, then I’d binge, diet, gain, start all over again,’ she said in the documentary.
The singer songwriter, who has penned hits including 9 to 5, Jolene and I Will Always Love You is now thought to follow a low carb diet but has admitted in the past to being a yo-you dieter. The singer pictured in the early Eighties
In more recent years, the singer says she’s kept to a low carb plan – with treats at the weekend. She explained: ‘I usually try to keep some homemade egg salad around because I like to have something quick and easy,’ she said.
‘Through the week I’ll eat things like egg salad on toast with tomato, and sometimes I’ll have a bagel with cream cheese, cucumbers and tomatoes.’
NIPS, TUCKS AND HONESTY
‘I always say it’s good lighting, good make-up a good doctor!’ The star has been open about her cosmetic enhancements in the past (Dolly circa 1976)
Unlike many A-listers, Dolly Parton has always been frank about the string of nips and tucks that have helped her to perfect the look that is now her trademark.
She’s even joked that her desire to stay looking young has ‘really aged’ her plastic surgeons.
‘There’s no secret. People say, “You look so young,” and I say, “Yes, but I have really aged my plastic surgeons.” (seen in 2014)
Speaking on This Morning in 2019, she said: ‘There’s no secret. People say, “You look so young,” and I say, “Yes, but I have really aged my plastic surgeons.”
Adding: ‘I always say it’s good lighting, good make-up and a good doctor!’
The Jolene hitmaker has admitted to numerous cosmetic procedures in the past which include breast implants, a brow lift, chin augmentation and rhinoplasty.
NOT GOING TO THE GYM
A gym bunny she isn’t, last year, the star told the Wall Street Journal that she hates working out.
‘I’m not big on going to the gym… and I’m particular about who I sweat with,’ she told the newspaper.
The perfectly toned Queen of Country admits that she doesn’t enjoy the gym, joking to the Wall Street Journal in 2022 ‘I’m particular about who I sweat with’
She did admit that she exercises though, although not in a conventional way, saying: ‘I create my own rejoicing exercises. I grew up in the Pentecostal church where we used to do a lot of shouting and jumping around.
‘I keep my motor running in the mornings when I just shout through the house praising the Lord.’
She said her mantra is: ‘Do something for a reason rather than yourself,’ she said. ‘That’s the extent of my exercise.’
A WARDROBE BIG ON FUN – AND INSPIRED BY THE ‘TOWN TRAMP’
From her bouffant hair, to surgically-enhanced bosom and statement bright lips, Dolly has created a signature look that is as famous as her music.
And the country singer has frequently revealed how a prostitute in the Tennessee town she grew up in was an early muse.
Dolly has said the way the local ‘town tramp’ looked reflected her inner self and gave her the courage to turn that into her stage persona.
The star, pictured in the Nineties, has frequently told how she based her look on that of the prostitute in the Tennessee town where she grew up, saying she loved her ‘piles of bleached hair, red lipstick, nails and cheeks and high heel shoes’
She said: ‘All country girls have an idea of what glamour is, and a lot of them get that through magazines or movies.
‘But we didn’t get to go to the movies and we lived way back, so my look was inspired by the town tramp.
‘I thought she was absolutely beautiful because she looked like a movie star to me, because she had those piles of bleached hair, red lipstick, nails and cheeks and high heel shoes.
‘And people used to think it was a joke. I would say how beautiful she was, and everybody would say she is just trash.
Under the knife: The Jolene hitmaker has admitted to numerous cosmetic procedures in the past which include breast implants, a brow lift, chin augmentation and rhinoplasty (posing here in 1984)
‘And I thought that is what I am going to grow up to be – trash. I thought it was a way you looked and I liked how she looked and it seemed to fit my inner self and personality.’
Earlier this year, the singer said on her Apple Music 1 show – What Would Dolly Do? that she was often encouraged to dial back her look early in her career.
She did, however, stick to her guns when it came to fashion, and reflected since, saying: ‘I didn’t like wearing what somebody else would that’s supposed to have had good taste. But I had no taste!’
A LONG AND HAPPY MARRIAGE TO CARL DEAN
Dolly also boasts one of the most enduring marriages in showbiz. She’s been married to spotlight-shunning Carl Thomas Dean for 56 years, having met him when she was just 18. The couple live on a farm in Nashville.
Opposites attract: Dolly Parton pictured in the 70s with her husband Carl Thomas Dean
She told Entertainment Tonight earlier this year that her husband is ‘kind of a loner so he doesn’t really like being with anybody but me, when I’m home’
Earlier this year, she revealed to Entertainment Tonight that they’re very ‘different people’, saying: ‘He’s kind of a loner so he doesn’t really like being with anybody but me, when I’m home – I mean, he’s not one to kind of get out there and socialize that much.’
She added: ‘He loves living on the farm, taking care of the property as he has for all these many years, and then, we just have a lot to talk about.’
‘We work really well together,’ Parton raved. ‘We have a lot of love and respect for each other, and I think the key to all of it — we both have a crazy, warped sense of humour, so we have a lot of fun.’
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