Throughout her 50-year career, rumours about Dolly Parton and her love life have abounded - from her husband being fake to her marriage being a sham.
Gossip mongers have claimed she's gay; that she's had a slew of affairs and that she's secretly covered in tattoos. But Dolly's rarely-seen husband Carl Dean is very much the real deal, having hidden quietly in the background of Dolly's glitzy life since their first meeting outside Nashville’s Wishy-Washy laundromat when she was just 18.
Carl, then 21, caught her attention by joking that she was going to get sunburn in her revealing outfit. And he knew from the second they met that Dolly, 73, was The One. “My first thought was I’m going to marry that girl,” Carl once said. “My second was,
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