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Dolly Parton Explains Why 'Homebody' Husband Refuses to Join Her at Events

Dolly Parton and her husband, Carl Dean, have been happily married for 58 years — but he won’t join her on red carpets

“I think one of the things that made [our marriage] last so long through the years is we love each other, we respect each other, but we have a lot of fun.” The country icon first met her future spouse when she moved to Nashville in 1964 to start her music career. “I left two boyfriends that had wanted to marry me and kept saying, ‘No, I’m gonna move to Nashville,’” she recalled to host Bunnie Xo.

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