Uncommon Picture of Dolly Parton With out Signature Make-up?

In 2023, a split-screen picture circulated on Pinterest, purportedly that includes two images of nation music icon Dolly Parton. Proven beneath, the picture on the best featured the singer’s signature glamorous look of blonde wig and full make-up, whereas the picture on the left allegedly depicted Parton dressed uncharacteristically casually in a white tank prime, her face unadorned with cosmetics, her pure hair scraped off her face. 

The caption accompanying the images acknowledged: “Dolly with out make up.”

(Diane Di Leonardo/Pinterest) 

A number of individuals within the Pinterest feedback identified that the lady on the left was not off-duty Parton, however slightly, British-American model-turned-actress Nicollette Sheridan, who starred in ABC comedy-drama sequence “Determined Housewives.”

“That is edie Britt from determined housewives,” one follower identified, referencing the identify of Sheridan’s character within the ABC sequence, whereas one other agreed, “This isn’t Dolly. She has tattoos of butterflies on her arms.”

These commenters appropriately recognized the lady on the left as 60-year-old Sheridan, not Parton. Due to this fact, now we have rated this declare as “Miscaptioned.” 

To verify the lady on the left as Sheridan, we took a screenshot of the picture and performed a Google reverse-image search. We discovered the identical picture on French-language leisure web site Purepeople and likewise in a Daily Mail article printed in 2008. The headline on the Each day Mail story confirmed: “Barefaced not stylish: Determined Housewives star Nicollette steps out with out her make-up.”

Parton, 78, is legendary for her high-maintenance fashions and isn’t seen in public with out full make-up (or carrying considered one of her many wigs).

In October 2023, the “Jolene” singer instructed People magazine whereas selling her type memoir “Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones” that there is just one cause she would ever be caught in public with out make-up: “Loss of life!” Per Individuals:

“You’d simply need to see me laid out on a stretcher,” jokes Parton, earlier than providing up a extra severe state of affairs: “No, if my husband [Carl Thomas Dean] was sick, or if there was an emergency, after all, I’d [leave the house without makeup].”

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“If I obtained arrested for a foul tag or no matter, I do not desire a mugshot wanting like a few of the stars I’ve seen,” she says. “I’ll clear up a little bit if I am going exterior, until there’s an absolute emergency, and it must be fairly severe. I’d do it then, however that will be the one method.”

Whereas the picture incorrectly figuring out Sheridan as Parton confirmed the previous’s naked arms which might be visibly freed from tattoo ink, Parton has typically been the topic of rumors concerning her apparently secret tattoos, which she hides below lengthy sleeves and stage costumes. 

In one other characteristic from People magazine in 2020, the nation music legend revealed, “I do have some tattoos, that is true,” including, “However they’re tasteful. I am not a tattoo lady.” In response to the outlet:

“My tattoos are fairly, they’re clever they usually normally began out to cowl some scar, to not make an enormous assertion,” she says. “Ribbons and bows and butterflies are the issues that I’ve. I used to be very sick for some time and I needed to put on a feeding tube. It left a little bit indention in my aspect and I did not prefer it as a result of I am so truthful that scars flip purple on me.

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“I wish to make positives out of negatives. I had a little bit beehive tattooed over it — a little bit yellow-and-brown beehive with a tiny little bee on prime of the hive. The mouth of it’s that little sinkhole.”

Interested in whether or not Parton has had any beauty tattooing to her face (equivalent to microbladed eyebrows, eyeliner and lips), Snopes reached out to her workforce, who didn’t instantly return a request for remark.

Having lengthy been the topic of rumors claiming she goes to bed in her makeup and removes it within the morning for contemporary software, in a 2019 interview with The New York Times, Parton admitted that it is true, even whereas touring between live performance stops whereas touring: “I clear my face within the mornings. You by no means know if you are going to wreck the bus, you by no means know if you are going to be someplace in a resort and there is going to be a hearth. So I depart my make-up on at evening and clear my face within the morning.”

In 2020, Parton was interviewed by drag queen and TV persona RuPaul for Marie Claire. Once more addressing the chatter that she sleeps in her make-up, she instructed the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” creator and host, “I’ve to all the time keep prepared—road prepared, I all the time say. I’ve to maintain my make-up on and maintain my hair accomplished. Like, after I’m in L.A.—I’ve instructed you about it—if it should earthquake, if we get an earthquake, I am not working out on the street wanting such as you look now. I’ve to be ambulance-ready always, if I get sick or one thing. However I truly do put on excessive heels more often than not. They are not all the time as excessive as those I put on for present. However I am little. I am quick. And I’ve to put on heels in an effort to attain my cupboards.”

In sum, given the intensive proof indicating that the split-screen picture doesn’t characteristic Parton with out make-up and is as a substitute a photograph of actress Nicollette Sheridan, we charge the declare as “Miscaptioned.” The picture doesn’t signify a uncommon sighting of the singer with out her signature full face of beauty merchandise, and Parton has all the time taken nice pains to not be seen in public wanting something aside from camera-ready.

Snopes has beforehand reported on Parton, together with the time she covertly entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest and lost to a drag queen, and the satirical declare that she recorded songs for a new album with the heavy metal band Slipknot.

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