Dolly Parton Says She’s a ‘Holly Dolly Christmas Girl’ as She Reveals Her All-Out Holiday Style: ‘My Hair Lights Up'

Dolly Parton is getting ready for the holidays!

In conversation with guest host Jessie James Decker on TalkShopLive, posted on Thursday, Dec. 13, the country legend, 78, revealed that she loves dressing up for the Christmas season.

“I wear everything Christmas. I mean, when it comes to Christmas, all I have,” Parton said. “Socks, shoes, sweaters, earrings and my hair is glowing.”

This includes when she visits her nieces and nephews for an annual tradition that Dolly calls “Cookie Night.”

“I look after them for a day and a half, from one afternoon all night until the next day,” she added of her holiday family time.

“They drive around the farm on golf carts and all that,” the “Jolene” singer continued. “But if I’m dressing up like Santa, I have to have all my Santa stuff all the time.”

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“And then when we’re going to do the cookies, I have to have my earrings that light up, I have to have lights in my hair, festive sweaters that light up, so yeah, I’m all about that,” Parton added.

“I’m all about Christmas. I’m Christmas Girl Holly Dolly,” she said.

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Parton, who has been married to husband Carl Thomas Dean since 1966, revealed that she is spending the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s with loved ones in East Tennessee.

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“I have a lot of relatives in East Tennessee,” she said. “So, between Thanksgiving and the first of the year those who live here … we go home to see the ones in East Tennessee.”

She added: “And then we go around. We just go to each other’s different times, different nights or whatever. And usually, you know, I spend Christmas, you know, with my husband.”

Parton then concluded that her Christmas wish was for people to have “goodness, peace and goodwill” towards each other.

“So it’s my wish that people try to put aside all their differences and all their stuff and just try to find that peace that comes from Christmas and that peace within themselves and just try to love each other,” she said. “It would be great if we could do it all the time, but at least try to do it at Christmas because it’s Christ’s time.”

Parton then read her book Dolly Parton’s Billy the Kid is coming home for Christmas — which was announced in October — to Jessie, her husband Eric Decker and their four children Vivianne Rose, 10, Eric Thomas, 9, Forrest Bradley, 6, and Denver Calloway, 10 months.

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