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

Mar. 15, 2025

Dolly Parton at the 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Microsoft Theater on November 05, 2022.Photo:Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic

Dolly Partonis getting ready for the holidays!Speaking to guest hostJessie James DeckeronTalkShopLive,released Thursday, Dec. 13, the country legend, 78, revealed that she loves to dress up for the Christmas season.“I wear everything Christmas. I mean, when it comes to Christmas, everything I have,” Parton said. “Socks, and shoes, and sweaters, and earrings and my hair lights up.”This includes when she has her nieces and nephews over for an annual tradition Dolly calls “cookie night.”“I keep them for a day and a half, from one afternoon all night until like the next day,” she added about her festive family time.“They drive around the farm on the golf carts and all that,” the “Jolene” singer continued. “But, the whole time if I dress like Santa Claus, I’ve got to have all my Santa stuff on.”Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Dolly Parton rehearsing for the 2016 Christmas in Rockefeller Center.Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty“And then when we’re gonna do cookies, I gotta have my earrings that light up, I’ve gotta have lights in my hair, festive sweaters that light up, so yeah, I’m all about it,” Parton added.“I’m all about Christmas. I’m a Holly Dolly Christmas girl,” she said.The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!Parton, who has been married to husbandCarl Thomas Deansince 1966, revealed that she spends time with loved ones in East Tennessee during the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.Dolly Parton PET GALA on Wednesday, Feb. 21.Jon Morgan/CBS/Getty“I’ve got a lot of relatives in East Tennessee,” she said. “So between Thanksgiving and the first of the year the ones that live down here… we go home to see those in East Tennessee.”She added, “And then we go around here. We just go to each other’s houses, different time, different nights or whatever. And usually, you know, I spend Christmas day, you know, with my husband.”Parton then concluded that her Christmas wish is for people to have “good, peace and goodwill” towards each other.“So that is my wish that people are trying to put aside all their differences and all their things and just trying to try to find that peace that comes from Christmas and that peace within themselves and just try to love one another,” she said.  “It would be great if we could do it all the time, but at least try to make an effort to do it on Christmas because that’s the Christ time.”Parton then read her bookDolly Parton’s Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas—which was released in October — toJessie, her husbandEric Deckerand theirfour childrenVivianne Rose, 10, Eric Thomas, 9, Forrest Bradley, 6, Denver Calloway, 10 months.

Dolly Partonis getting ready for the holidays!

Speaking to guest hostJessie James DeckeronTalkShopLive,released Thursday, Dec. 13, the country legend, 78, revealed that she loves to dress up for the Christmas season.

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

This includes when she has her nieces and nephews over for an annual tradition Dolly calls “cookie night.”

“I keep them for a day and a half, from one afternoon all night until like the next day,” she added about her festive family time.

“They drive around the farm on the golf carts and all that,” the “Jolene” singer continued. “But, the whole time if I dress like Santa Claus, I’ve got to have all my Santa stuff on.”

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Dolly Parton rehearsing for the 2016 Christmas in Rockefeller Center.Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Virginia Sherwood/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

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

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

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!

Parton, who has been married to husbandCarl Thomas Deansince 1966, revealed that she spends time with loved ones in East Tennessee during the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.

Dolly Parton PET GALA on Wednesday, Feb. 21.Jon Morgan/CBS/Getty

Jon Morgan/CBS/Getty

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

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

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

“So that is my wish that people are trying to put aside all their differences and all their things and just trying to try to find that peace that comes from Christmas and that peace within themselves and just try to love one another,” she said.  “It would be great if we could do it all the time, but at least try to make an effort to do it on Christmas because that’s the Christ time.”

Parton then read her bookDolly Parton’s Billy the Kid Comes Home for Christmas—which was released in October — toJessie, her husbandEric Deckerand theirfour childrenVivianne Rose, 10, Eric Thomas, 9, Forrest Bradley, 6, Denver Calloway, 10 months.

source: people.com