Dolly Parton wow’d the world with her very own Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders’ uniform during her Thanksgiving halftime show at AT&T stadium, and now, she’s sharing what her husband had to say about it.
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Dolly went all out with short shorts, cleavage and her midriff exposed, and according to her, husband Carl Dean was all smiles about it.
“It turned out pretty cool and my husband [Carl Thomas Dean] liked it,” Dolly told PEOPLE. “He said, ‘Those shorts were a little too short.’ I said, ‘Jealous?’” Parton giggled. “I said, ‘They weren’t as short as the other girls!’ He was just being funny. I think he thought — because everybody’s making a to-do over it — he thought, well, maybe you shouldn’t be showing your butt at that age. But anyway, he got a kick out of it too.”
Dean wasn’t the only one in support of Parton’s attire, which she wore to perform “Jolene,” “9 to 5” and Queen’s “We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You,” during her halftime show on November 23. Her manager, Danny Nozell, told Billboard that Parton’s staff “fainted” when they saw her walk out in the uniform, which she kept a secret until game time.
“It was completely her idea,” Nozell told Billboard. “She waited until right before she went to stage and came out of the dressing room to show us all. When she came out, myself, the security and my staff fainted. I couldn’t tell the difference between Dolly and the cheerleaders. That is the genius of Dolly, and people are still talking about it.”