Celebrity tributes pour in for Dolly Parton: ‘a gift to the world’
Photograph: AFF-USA/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenDolly Parton in 2025. “Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus,” he said.Earlier this year, Parton had canceled a Las Vegas residency over health issues.“Our family and the team she has entrusted with her legacy will work diligently to ensure her spirit will live with us forever,” the official family statement said. For all of it.”Bernie SandersIn a post on X, the Vermont senator called her “one of the great entertainers of our era” but also “a lifelong philanthropist and advocate for literacy, education, LGBTQ+ rights, healthcare and disaster relief”.View image in fullscreenKeith Urban and Dolly Parton.
- ▪Photograph: AFF-USA/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenDolly Parton in 2025.
- ▪“Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus,” he said.Earlier this year, Parton had canceled a Las Vegas residency over health issues.“Our family and the team she has entrusted with her legacy will work diligently to ensure he
- ▪For all of it.”Bernie SandersIn a post on X, the Vermont senator called her “one of the great entertainers of our era” but also “a lifelong philanthropist and advocate for literacy, education, LGBTQ+ rights, healthcare and disaster relief”.
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Dolly Parton in 2025. Photograph: AFF-USA/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenDolly Parton in 2025. Photograph: AFF-USA/ShutterstockDolly PartonCelebrity tributes pour in for Dolly Parton: ‘a gift to the world’Lily Tomlin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bernie Sanders and Kacey Musgraves are among those remembering the queen of country after she died aged 80 Alexis Petridis on Dolly Parton’s peerless career that turned country music cliches inside out Dolly Parton – a life in pictures Country music legend Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – latest updates Owen Myers and Benjamin LeeTue 25 Aug 2026 15.42 EDTFirst published on Tue 25 Aug 2026 15.31 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleTributes have poured in for Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter and actor, after her death aged 80.News of her death…
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