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Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dolly Parton Reveals Why She and Late Husband Carl Dean 'Were So Good for Each Other'
Dolly Parton is the latest guest on Khloe Kardashian's Khloe in Wonder Land podcast The country icon opened up about why she and late husband Carl Dean "were so good for each other" Dean died at age 82 in March 2025There are many reasons Dolly Parton and her late husband Carl Dean's relationship worked so well. The country icon, 79, was married to Dean for 58 years before his death at age 82 in March, and she's now opening up about why they "were so good for each other" in an interview on the July 9 episode of Khloé Kardashian's podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land. "We were different people. He loved music, but he was a loner," said Parton of her reclusive husband. "He did not want a bunch of people around him except me. Of course he had friends, but he was also the same way. He'd rather be at the barn, be on the farm all day, and if he was gonna go sell a loader or buy a loader or have somebody come work on one of his trucks or tractors, he'd have to let people in." The one and only @DollyParton 🤍 We talked about God, glam, growing up, and how she's stayed true to herself through it all. Watch now on @X — Khloé (@khloekardashian) July 9, 2025 "But I really think that there's just certain personalities that are great for each other. And we were together 61 years," added the "Jolene" singer, who met Dean at a laundromat in Nashville when she was 18 years old. "We were just so different, but we were so similar. We were perfect, as far as the temperature in the house. We didn't fight over that 'cause we both were comfortable at the same thing. Just so many things we were compatible about, and we just got along great." "I don't know if any of you follow the signs, the Zodiac signs," she told Kardashian. "I'm Capricorn, and [he's a] Cancer, and those are supposed to be compatible. But he was a homebody." Parton noted Dean "never did an interview in his life" and wasn't interested in fame. "He'd be out mowing the yard on the tractor, and the fans would come by to see our house, and they'd say, 'Are you Dolly Parton's husband?' And he'd say, 'Do I look like I'd be Dolly Parton's husband?' He'd have on his old straw hat and his coat," she said. "I didn't ever expose him to that," she said of the celebrity lifestyle. "But he was very proud of me. We got along great because we didn't have nothing to fight over." Despite Parton's fame, she and Dean approached life similarly. "I have to be out in the public and I belong to the public, but I'm such a private person. And my husband was as well," said the "Here You Come Again" artist. "That was the thing with us, we were so good for each other because he's a total loner," she continued. "But we could just be in the house all day and say two or three words — didn't matter. Or we could talk all afternoon and lay in bed, talk at night in the dark." Elsewhere during the podcast episode, Parton revealed she won't be releasing new music anytime soon in the wake of Dean's death. "[There are] several things I have wanted to start, but I can't do it," she said. 'I will later,' she continued. 'I'm just coming up with such wonderful beautiful ideas, but I think I won't finish it. I can't do it right now, because I got so many other things.' 'I can't afford the luxury of, you know, getting that emotional right now,' added Parton. 'There are times like that, things like that, that will stall you a little bit. But I'll write something else though, if it comes.' 'I'm just putting that all on hold,' she said. Read the original article on People
The Age
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
She fell in love with Dolly Parton at 5. Now she's the next best thing
Tricia Paoluccio was five years old and playing at her father's office in Modesto, California, when she first heard the song that would change her life. Dolly Parton's Here You Come Again came on the radio, and she excitedly demanded that someone type out the lyrics – these were the days before Google – so they wouldn't be lost to time. She memorised the song and it became a constant companion. Now the singer and actor is about to reprise her role as Parton in the show she has toured all over the United States and the UK. Here You Come Again, which opens in Melbourne next week, sees Paoluccio undergo a remarkable transformation to become the singer she has been imitating since childhood. Ironically, the distinctive voice she had perfected as a kid – 'that crack and that scratch and that vibrato' – had to be unlearned when Paoluccio moved to New York to become a professional actor. Her Broadway credits since then include Fiddler on the Roof and A View from the Bridge, while on screen she has had recurring roles on Homeland and Law and Order SVU. 'I actually had to take singing lessons to figure out my real voice, which is a little bit lower and huskier than Dolly's,' she says. And yet today, as she slips into effortless renditions of the country singer mid-sentence, the effect is nothing short of uncanny; reviews consistently note that Paoluccio is able to capture every one of Parton's vocal idiosyncrasies, right down to the syrupy, hiccupy laugh. It wasn't just Parton's ability to write a catchy melody that won Paoluccio's heart. 'I think it was her storytelling. I loved the stories of her songs, so my imagination went with the song. When I heard Two Doors Down, that's what I envisioned being an adult would be like. I'd live in an apartment building and there'd be a party down the hall. With Here You Come Again, I thought, 'Wait, she's going back to someone who plays games with her head?' Her writing really captured my imagination.' The Dolly Parton that Here You Come Again celebrates is the glamorous version that dominated the airwaves in the 1970s and '80s. Parton's fame dipped in the '90s, when a more minimalist aesthetic became fashionable, but Paoluccio loves that the singer always took that in her stride. 'She didn't let it get to her, didn't go into a state of depression and drinking and drugs and numbing yourself. She stayed creative, productive. She channelled her energy into becoming very philanthropic.' It was during this period that Parton's Dollywood Foundation embarked on a series of ambitious altruistic endeavours. She promised middle schoolers $US500 if they graduated from high school, reportedly reducing drop-out rates from 36 per cent to 6 per cent. Her Imagination Library provided free books to kids in order to encourage reading (its Australian arm has distributed more than 1 million here). 'She hasn't just had a lucky life. She grew up very, very poor, very challenged. She knows hardship, and that's why she has such great empathy and great heart for people. She's never forgotten her roots. I think that's a huge part of her appeal,' says Paoluccio. It's also the spirit that the musical aims to conjure: the story follows a 40-something Parton fan forced to move back in with his parents. In his dejected isolation, he is visited by his idol, who helps him navigate the mess of his life and find a way out the other end. The show had its genesis in a somewhat similar situation: as New York was going into lockdown, Paoluccio and her husband, Gabriel Barre, sequestered themselves in a little log cabin in the foothills of California ('no Wi-Fi, no TV, no washer-dryer'). Barre, a director and actor himself, was offered a small government grant to come up with a two-person show, and naturally thought of his wife's favourite singer. 'So we had this time and the space to do it. We didn't have permission to do it, but it didn't matter because all we were getting the money for was to write it.' Eventually, they staged a Zoom reading for their producers, and invited their lawyer to sit in. It turned out the lawyer loved it. It also turned out that he knew Dolly Parton's lawyer. 'He reached out, just because he believed in it. And then he called us up and said, 'Dolly watched the Zoom, read the script, loves it, loves Tricia, is giving us the worldwide rights to all of her music,' says Paoluccio. (Parton's take on her own legend, DOLLY: A True Original Musical, premieres in Nashville this month.) While Paoluccio had been singing Dolly Parton her whole life, she'd never attempted her speaking voice. 'So when this was actually going to happen, I worked with a very celebrated dialect coach named Eric Singer, and like a little scientist, we broke down her speaking voice and got this.' Later, they brought in additional band members and wrote them back-up singing parts as well as giving them dialogue for a range of characters off-stage, but the core of the story still focuses on Parton and her fan. Paoluccio's physical transformation is as surprising as her vocal gymnastics – sans hair, make-up and costume, you wouldn't recognise her as the same person who commands the stage. 'When I leave the stage door, people are like, 'Wait, are you Dolly?' I do not look like her in real life, but when I have the eyelashes and the wigs and the boobs and the wave, I look like her in that era.' Loading Judging by the number of online images purporting to be Parton without make-up, there's a good chance that the star herself bears little resemblance to her public persona. 'Dolly with or without make-up is the most beautiful woman in the world to me,' says Paoluccio. 'There is a famous quote from [American religious leader] Mary Baker Eddy that I love: 'The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more soul'. For me, Dolly is the queen of illusion but it is her soul that makes her so beautiful.' The show is co-written by Bruce Vilanch, an Emmy-award winner who has collaborated with the likes of Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg and David Letterman. 'He had written for Dolly, so he knew her very well,' says Paoluccio. 'And because we wanted a lot of pop cultural references, we wanted a comedy writer like him to help us with that.' After its post-pandemic premiere, Here You Come Again travelled everywhere in the US from Texas to Delaware and Connecticut before heading across the pond for a 31-city tour of the UK. 'We were shocked at how beloved Dolly is in the UK. I was told that the audiences were going to be very reserved and very formal and wouldn't stand up at the end. But I think that Dolly does something to the audience members where they felt like they had to let their hair down. They were so into it.' The show they saw wasn't exactly the same as the one that played US stages. Wherever it's been, Paoluccio and Barre have commissioned local writers to give it a makeover that speaks more directly to its audience. 'When we wrote it, we knew that this could be a show that toured the world. Anywhere that people love Dolly Parton, we could do the show. And we were willing and wanting to very much tell the story for the people who are buying those tickets.' The show might change as it travels, but its makers are adamant that one thing will stay the same. 'Dolly is Dolly,' says Paoluccio. 'And it's the greatest honour of my life. I'll never have a role that I love doing more than this.'
Sydney Morning Herald
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
She fell in love with Dolly Parton at 5. Now she's the next best thing
Tricia Paoluccio was five years old and playing at her father's office in Modesto, California, when she first heard the song that would change her life. Dolly Parton's Here You Come Again came on the radio, and she excitedly demanded that someone type out the lyrics – these were the days before Google – so they wouldn't be lost to time. She memorised the song and it became a constant companion. Now the singer and actor is about to reprise her role as Parton in the show she has toured all over the United States and the UK. Here You Come Again, which opens in Melbourne next week, sees Paoluccio undergo a remarkable transformation to become the singer she has been imitating since childhood. Ironically, the distinctive voice she had perfected as a kid – 'that crack and that scratch and that vibrato' – had to be unlearned when Paoluccio moved to New York to become a professional actor. Her Broadway credits since then include Fiddler on the Roof and A View from the Bridge, while on screen she has had recurring roles on Homeland and Law and Order SVU. 'I actually had to take singing lessons to figure out my real voice, which is a little bit lower and huskier than Dolly's,' she says. And yet today, as she slips into effortless renditions of the country singer mid-sentence, the effect is nothing short of uncanny; reviews consistently note that Paoluccio is able to capture every one of Parton's vocal idiosyncrasies, right down to the syrupy, hiccupy laugh. It wasn't just Parton's ability to write a catchy melody that won Paoluccio's heart. 'I think it was her storytelling. I loved the stories of her songs, so my imagination went with the song. When I heard Two Doors Down, that's what I envisioned being an adult would be like. I'd live in an apartment building and there'd be a party down the hall. With Here You Come Again, I thought, 'Wait, she's going back to someone who plays games with her head?' Her writing really captured my imagination.' The Dolly Parton that Here You Come Again celebrates is the glamorous version that dominated the airwaves in the 1970s and '80s. Parton's fame dipped in the '90s, when a more minimalist aesthetic became fashionable, but Paoluccio loves that the singer always took that in her stride. 'She didn't let it get to her, didn't go into a state of depression and drinking and drugs and numbing yourself. She stayed creative, productive. She channelled her energy into becoming very philanthropic.' It was during this period that Parton's Dollywood Foundation embarked on a series of ambitious altruistic endeavours. She promised middle schoolers $US500 if they graduated from high school, reportedly reducing drop-out rates from 36 per cent to 6 per cent. Her Imagination Library provided free books to kids in order to encourage reading (its Australian arm has distributed more than 1 million here). 'She hasn't just had a lucky life. She grew up very, very poor, very challenged. She knows hardship, and that's why she has such great empathy and great heart for people. She's never forgotten her roots. I think that's a huge part of her appeal,' says Paoluccio. It's also the spirit that the musical aims to conjure: the story follows a 40-something Parton fan forced to move back in with his parents. In his dejected isolation, he is visited by his idol, who helps him navigate the mess of his life and find a way out the other end. The show had its genesis in a somewhat similar situation: as New York was going into lockdown, Paoluccio and her husband, Gabriel Barre, sequestered themselves in a little log cabin in the foothills of California ('no Wi-Fi, no TV, no washer-dryer'). Barre, a director and actor himself, was offered a small government grant to come up with a two-person show, and naturally thought of his wife's favourite singer. 'So we had this time and the space to do it. We didn't have permission to do it, but it didn't matter because all we were getting the money for was to write it.' Eventually, they staged a Zoom reading for their producers, and invited their lawyer to sit in. It turned out the lawyer loved it. It also turned out that he knew Dolly Parton's lawyer. 'He reached out, just because he believed in it. And then he called us up and said, 'Dolly watched the Zoom, read the script, loves it, loves Tricia, is giving us the worldwide rights to all of her music,' says Paoluccio. (Parton's take on her own legend, DOLLY: A True Original Musical, premieres in Nashville this month.) While Paoluccio had been singing Dolly Parton her whole life, she'd never attempted her speaking voice. 'So when this was actually going to happen, I worked with a very celebrated dialect coach named Eric Singer, and like a little scientist, we broke down her speaking voice and got this.' Later, they brought in additional band members and wrote them back-up singing parts as well as giving them dialogue for a range of characters off-stage, but the core of the story still focuses on Parton and her fan. Paoluccio's physical transformation is as surprising as her vocal gymnastics – sans hair, make-up and costume, you wouldn't recognise her as the same person who commands the stage. 'When I leave the stage door, people are like, 'Wait, are you Dolly?' I do not look like her in real life, but when I have the eyelashes and the wigs and the boobs and the wave, I look like her in that era.' Loading Judging by the number of online images purporting to be Parton without make-up, there's a good chance that the star herself bears little resemblance to her public persona. 'Dolly with or without make-up is the most beautiful woman in the world to me,' says Paoluccio. 'There is a famous quote from [American religious leader] Mary Baker Eddy that I love: 'The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more soul'. For me, Dolly is the queen of illusion but it is her soul that makes her so beautiful.' The show is co-written by Bruce Vilanch, an Emmy-award winner who has collaborated with the likes of Bette Midler, Whoopi Goldberg and David Letterman. 'He had written for Dolly, so he knew her very well,' says Paoluccio. 'And because we wanted a lot of pop cultural references, we wanted a comedy writer like him to help us with that.' After its post-pandemic premiere, Here You Come Again travelled everywhere in the US from Texas to Delaware and Connecticut before heading across the pond for a 31-city tour of the UK. 'We were shocked at how beloved Dolly is in the UK. I was told that the audiences were going to be very reserved and very formal and wouldn't stand up at the end. But I think that Dolly does something to the audience members where they felt like they had to let their hair down. They were so into it.' The show they saw wasn't exactly the same as the one that played US stages. Wherever it's been, Paoluccio and Barre have commissioned local writers to give it a makeover that speaks more directly to its audience. 'When we wrote it, we knew that this could be a show that toured the world. Anywhere that people love Dolly Parton, we could do the show. And we were willing and wanting to very much tell the story for the people who are buying those tickets.' The show might change as it travels, but its makers are adamant that one thing will stay the same. 'Dolly is Dolly,' says Paoluccio. 'And it's the greatest honour of my life. I'll never have a role that I love doing more than this.'
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Masked Singer's Pearl Revealed? ‘Let Me Get a Big Hell Yeah' for This Theory
The Masked Singer is just a few weeks away from crowning the winner of Season 13, but you don't have to wait until the grand finale to find out which celebrities are hiding under the remaining six costumes. Like Pearl, for example. Remember Pearl? Last seen in the Group B finale on March 19, this literal treasure has stunned the judges with impressive performances of songs like Whitney Houston's 'Saving All My Love For You' and Dolly Parton's 'Here You Come Again.' More from TVLine Nicky Katt, Boston Public Actor, Dead at 54; Cause of Death Revealed by Family Gordon Ramsay's First New Series in 2 Whole Years (!) Gets Fox Premiere Date Masked Singer's Mad Scientist Monster Revealed? Let Us State Our Theory Pearl's talent has never been in question. Her identity, however, has been a bit tougher to nail down. But unlike the show's know-nothing judges (no disrespect!), I have the internet at my disposable, making it much easier to decipher her clues. That's why I'm fully confident sharing this pearl of wisdom with you: the celebrity taking on this particular persona is… the Grammy Award-winning 'Redneck Woman' herself, Gretchen Wilson! In this case, I can't even say that I recognized Wilson by her voice. Frankly, she's been a chameleon in this competition, effortlessly shifting her sound to fit each song. I'm not sure I would have even considered her, had it not been for a pair of extremely check-able facts. In Pearl's second clue package, she mentioned tending bar when she was still a kid. Sure enough, Wilson is quoted in this 2004 article about how she bartended in Chicago when she was just 15 years old. Still not convinced? In her third clue package, Pearl recalled borrowing an outfit from Parton when she was lucky enough to perform with her idol on stage. And what do you know, here's an article about how Parton gifted Wilson with an outfit ahead of their collaboration at the 2019 CMA Awards. Pearl returns to The Masked Singer on Wednesday (Fox, 8/7c), when she'll face off against the other members of the Lucky Six — Boogie Woogie, Coral, Mad Scientist Monster, Nessy and Paparazzo — in the hopes of advancing to the Season 13 quarterfinals. Do you agree that Wilson is Pearl? Which other celebrity identities have you figured out? And which character do you want to win Season 13? Drop a comment with your thoughts on all things below. Masked Singer Season 13 Cast Revealed! View List Best of TVLine Weirdest TV Crossovers: Always Sunny Meets Abbott, Family Guy vs. Simpsons, Nine-Nine Recruits New Girl and More ER Turns 30: See the Original County General Crew, Then and Now The Best Streaming Services in 2024: Disney+, Hulu, Max and More
South China Morning Post
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Loretta Lynn's granddaughter, Emmy Russell – who was ‘so mad' when judges asked her to sing her grandma's song, ‘Coal Miner's Daughter', on American Idol …
Emmy Russell was 'so mad' when she found out the American Idol judges wanted her to sing her famous grandma's song for one of her performances last April. Emmy Russell in a May 2024 post asking her followers to vote for her on American Idol. Photo: @emmyroserussell/Instagram The granddaughter of late American singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn opened up about the gig during an interview on The Thrivalist Podcast with Jamie George. The judges who picked the song for her to sing were Katy Perry , Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie , per People magazine. Advertisement 'So on American Idol, I did my grandma's song. Well, they actually let the judges pick three songs. And the only one I knew was 'Coal Miner's Daughter',' she said on the podcast. 'I'm already facing so much, trying to act in courage, and I just remember seeing that and I was so mad. I was like, 'Ugh.'' She said she thought that singing her late grandma's famous song 'was just going to add to' reports of nepotism. 'It was weird because I still felt that still small voice say, 'I need you to stay, and I need you to show up,'' she added. 'And I got on the piano and I played 'Coal Miner's Daughter' for the vocal coaches … and it was just how I wanted to play it.' The other song choices included 'Here You Come Again' by Dolly Parton and 'Suddenly I See' by KT Tunstall, according to People. Here's what we know about Loretta Lynn's talented granddaughter. How is Emmy Russell related to Loretta Lynn? Emmy Russell shared a photo in memory of her grandmother, country music legend Loretta Lynn, who died in October 2022. Photo: @emmyroserussell/Instagram Emmy Russell is one of Loretta Lynn's whopping 26 grandchildren.
