Inside Dolly Parton’s extremely private love story with husband Carl Dean
Dolly Parton’s husband Carl Dean may have no use for award shows or being on the road—unless it’s just the two of them in their RV—but he’s always there with a warm welcome when she gets home.
Dolly Parton is out there when it comes to her career, her sense of humor, her style, her philanthropy and pretty much everything else you might associate with the crowd-pleasing superstar, whose appeal has known no bounds.
But while she’s brought legions of fans to tears singing about the rosy highs and devastating lows of love, her own romance has been harmoniously playing out behind closed doors.
Or at least within the confines of their sprawling property in Brentwood, Tenn., where she and husband Carl Dean have called home since 1999—and where he prefers to stay tinkering in the barn while his wife is on the road.
«It’s worked for us because we both do different things and it’s exciting when we are together,» Parton told E! News in May of her husband of now 58 years.
«So the fact that there’s some little space that makes it exciting when you go home.»
And since they spend so much time apart, Dean the homebody and Parton the platinum-selling artist— who’s busy as ever at 79—they always have plenty to catch up on whenever they reunite.5
