Dolly Parton and Carl Dean didn’t have a conventional marriage and she loved that
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What Dolly Parton has said about her long marriage to Carl Dean.
A while back, when she was promoting her book about her distinct style, Dolly Parton was asked if her husband Carl Dean had a favorite outfit of hers. Parton got a dreamy smile on her face as she remembered. “I used to have a pair of a pair of red velvet hot pants back when hot pants were in style,” she told CNN during the 2023 interview. “I mean, a thousand years ago. He loved those pants and he’d often say, ‘Where’s your red velvet hot pants?’ And so I wore those for years just on request of course.” It was announced Monday that Dean, her husband of almost 60 years, had died. He was 82. Dean was famous, in part, for his desire to stay out of the spotlight. Despite being married to one of the biggest stars in the world, he was not a part of his wife’s celebrity world. Parton told People in a 2016 interview that her husband was a “loner.”
