Dolly Parton Goes All Out Dressing Up for the Holidays: ‘My Hair Lights Up’

Dolly Parton is preparing for the vacations!

Chatting with visitor host Jessie James Decker on TalkShopLive, launched Thursday, Dec. 13, the nation legend, 78, revealed that she loves to decorate up for the Christmas season.

“I put on every part Christmas. I imply, in relation to Christmas, every part I’ve,” Parton stated. “Socks, and sneakers, and sweaters, and earrings and my hair lights up.”

This contains when she has her nieces and nephews over for an annual custom Dolly calls “cookie night time.”

“I hold them for a day and a half, from one afternoon all night time till like the subsequent day,” she added about her festive household time.

“They drive across the farm on the golf carts and all that,” the “Jolene” singer continued. “However, the entire time if I gown like Santa Claus, I’ve received to have all my Santa stuff on.”

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“After which once we’re gonna do cookies, I gotta have my earrings that mild up, I’ve gotta have lights in my hair, festive sweaters that mild up, so yeah, I am all about it,” Parton added.

“I am all about Christmas. I am a Holly Dolly Christmas lady,” she stated.

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Parton, who has been married to husband Carl Thomas Dean since 1966, revealed that she spends time with family members in East Tennessee in the course of the interval between Thanksgiving and New 12 months’s Day.

“I’ve received a variety of kinfolk in East Tennessee,” she stated. “So between Thanksgiving and the primary of the yr those that reside down right here… we go residence to see these in East Tennessee.”

She added, “After which we go round right here. We simply go to one another’s homes, completely different time, completely different nights or no matter. And normally, you understand, I spend Christmas day, you understand, with my husband.”

Parton then concluded that her Christmas want is for folks to have “good, peace and goodwill” in the direction of one another.

“So that’s my want that individuals are attempting to place apart all their variations and all their issues and simply attempting to attempt to discover that peace that comes from Christmas and that peace inside themselves and simply attempt to love each other,” she stated.  “It will be nice if we may do it on a regular basis, however at the very least attempt to make an effort to do it on Christmas as a result of that is the Christ time.”

Parton then learn her e book Dolly Parton’s Billy the Child Comes Dwelling for Christmas — which was launched in October — to Jessie, her husband Eric Decker and their 4 youngsters Vivianne Rose, 10, Eric Thomas, 9, Forrest Bradley, 6, Denver Calloway, 10 months.