{"id":11370,"date":"2026-08-26T02:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:24:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:24:29","slug":"dolly-parton-dies-aged-80-as-tributes-paid-to-country-music-icon-who-changed-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=11370","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton dies aged 80 as tributes paid to country music icon who &#8216;changed history&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"LeadText_lead-text__wd_PA __className_a11ebf\" data-testid=\"leadtext\">Country singer Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, and has been welcomed by &#8216;the arms of Jesus,&#8217; her nephew, Bryan, has confirmed in a tear-jerking statement<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">Dolly Partonthe rhinestone-clad queen of country whose songs, wit and platinum hair made her one of the most beloved entertainers of all time, has died aged 80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">Her death was on Instagram. \u201cI have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven\u2019t truly felt it until now,\u201d hesaid. \u201cIt is an honour, an honour that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">Her death comes just four days after she told fans after the death of her husband Carl Dean last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" data-tmdatatrack-visible=\"true\">She said last Friday: \u201cI am dealing with some health issues that I just didn\u2019t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl. You know, this isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve had to manage something like this. Back in the early \u201980s, I was down for several months with female issues, and I was struggling with my weight at the time too, so it\u2019s not like I haven\u2019t been through hard times with my health.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"BoxStyles_box-container__Qk3WH BoxStyles_commercial__Wo6Z4\" data-testid=\"commercial-1\" data-position=\"1\">\n<div class=\"sc-d6b5eb77-4 hAvZVV commercial-label-style\" data-testid=\"commercial-label-gpt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country singer Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, and has been welcomed by &#8216;the arms of Jesus,&#8217; her nephew, Bryan, has confirmed in a tear-jerking statement &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dolly Partonthe&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11370\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}