Dolly Parton's husband Carl Dean

Dolly and Carl today, 50 years after they married.

He was never gorgeous.

Holy shit! Grandpa!

Yes he was one handsome man early on. A fine looking country squire. Dolly has said in many interviews that Carl has never had even the remotest interest in being a part of the show business hullabaloo.

I thought it was an open secret that Dolly is a lesbian. Her partner is her childhood friend Judy Ogle.

Wow, he got fat and not pretty

Damn he was hot back in the day... no wonder Jolene gave Dolly a beat down for him.

He has BDF for miles in his younger images. Those long and lanky men always have big'uns.

Carl is not a sexy name. Dolly and Carl. Not sexy at all. I opine they're both celibates.

You’d think with all of Dolly’s money he.could afford a trainer to lose that gut.

[quote]it's hard to believe a gay man could let himself go as much as he does.

OP has apparently never visited Palm Springs.

Wonder who fucked last , Dolly and Carl Or Hill and Bill ?

Wonder if he likes her tattoos.

Old Carl reminds me of Ned Beatty

[quote] I have never known anyone unfamous married to a famous person who has stayed completely out of the limelight more than he has.

Marlene Dietrich was married to her husband for over 50 years and he kept out of sight.

Did he shrink too? He used to be MUCH taller than her.

I think that they were a real-deal couple - at least earlier in the relationship anyway. Doubt they've had sex with each other in decades though.

Dolly and Carl have had an 'arrangement' for years. That's show biz!!

R11 or Barney Frank

Are Dolly breasts real or not?

R21 They were real up until the latter half of the 1980s, she got implants then after she lost some weight and her famous breasts shrunk with it.

Dolly has alluded in interviews to having an open marriage. She has supported Carl and his various girlfriends over the years.

Rumor has it he and Minnie Pearl were hot and heavy for a while.

R12, Hill and Bill hadn't met when Dolly and Carl stopped doing it.

Why is that picture of Madame and Mickey Rooney on this thread?

R5, yes that's true. Dolly Parton is a lesbian.

R21, Dolly has said since the 1970s that most of "her" is fake. Disregard R22.

It's more of a friendship than an actual marriage. She needs his companionship. Showbiz and fame can be very lonely and scary, especially for a superstar like Dolly. You're pretty much secluded from the rest of society and constantly on the road in strange hotel rooms. His familiar face must make her feel safe and secure.

R28 No she didn't. She denied having implants as late as 1992 and claimed she had a breast lift.

He looks hideous. And she looks like a Barbie doll.

He looks like hell.

Lordy he used to be hot. And not he is not.

There's no way that's the original Carl Dean.

Humans do not shrink that much. They just don't. That's someone else.

I thought Dana Elcar was dead?

That’s not him. Come on people...

I once saw Jane Fonda talking about what a hot man Dolly married.

R35 I thought the same thing. I wondered why he suddenly got shorter than Dolly when he used to be at least a foot taller than her before.

Then I did a search and another photo came up where the same man is taller than she is.

I think there's also a resemblance to older photos of him in the nose and chin areas.

Can we start a separate thread about Dolly’s nails in OP’s pic? First off there is no way I’d allow those nails anywhere near my dick or my hole. Just saying. Setting that issue aside those nails are a pure power move. Female phalluses.

Any current pictures of Judy? I think her and Dolly make a nice couple. Jane Fonda also told a story about Carl telling her about seeing Dolly for the first time in front of 7 11. Dolly has said it was a Wishy Washy laundromat. They do not have the story straight. I waver about whether or not Jane and Dolly have ever hooked up.

Why would you just not assume that Jane screwed up the detail, R41?

They’re both beautiful in the pic ar r35

Could be, R42, but I have heard her tell this story a couple of times. It sounds like that is what they told her.

I think they're cute together !

Some of you people need to stop talking as if you know one iota of Dolly & Carl's private lives and what goes on in their marriage. You know nothing. All you know is the silly gossip you've heard most of which is mindless blather. She may be a lesbian. He may be a homo. But no one on this site knows that for sure so don't pretend that you do.

Very true, R46. I do not know for a fact that Dolly is a lesbian but I have heard her bulldyke comment that she made. I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt that she is a woman who has struggled with the closet instead of a homophobic bigot. Maybe I am wrong.

That ain't Carl Dean.

[quote] Some of you people need to stop talking as if you know one iota of Dolly & Carl's private lives and what goes on in their marriage. You know nothing. All you know is the silly gossip you've heard most of which is mindless blather. She may be a lesbian. He may be a homo. But no one on this site knows that for sure so don't pretend that you do.

Oh shut the fuck up you prissy controlling schoolmarm.

This is a gay gossip forum. If you don't like gossip, you are in the wrong fucking place.

In her autobiography Dolly tells a story about her and Jane on the set of 9 to 5. Jane said she hadn't seen a really handsome man in a long time. Just then Carl approached them and Jane said "Here comes one now." Dolly didn't let on that she was married to him and began flirting with him. When Jane was giving her the stink eye Dolly burst out laughing and introduced him as her husband Carl.

Well, the great thing for Dolly is no one in the public (us) has seen Carl other than in OLD pictures so she could replace him 6 times if she wants with new beards she calls Carl. They can be fat, tall, short, bald, hairy, or anything else and none of us would have any idea that she replaced her friend who she talks to when her wife isn’t around. She’s is some kind of fucking genius.

R46 assumes everyone else here leads the dull detached frau life she does.

What heel height Dolly's wearing would explain some of the variance in height. Also osteoporosis takes its toll.

R35, that pic of Dolly is adorable. She is fresh faced but w crazy bouffant,

Here is another.

r46 why...isnt this site for gossip?

If Carl was "long and lanky" I guess he shrunk or Dolly is wearing 5 inch heels in the newer photos?

I guess the good life, living off Dolly's millions, has allowed him to let himself go. The irony is, that man has all the time in the world to hit the gym and eat a healthy diet. He has diabetes written all over him!

Abject Moron @ r53, look how high her fucking heels are in the black & white shot where "the real Cal Dean" towers a head and a half (ignore the height of her Mama Trump-esque hair) above her. Are you claiming that she's on STILTS in the paparazzi pix with the little roly poly man? Are you further claiming that osteoporosis can not only make a man shrink by 3 feet but that it can also completely change skull shape and facial features and turn an ectomorph into an endomorph?

Behold "Carl Dean" #2:

Dolly with a different "Carl Dean":

"Carl"

Shit Carl Dean was sexy as fuck. I usually don’t like very slim men but there’s something magnetic about young Carl.

Kim Kardashian said Jane Fonda is always grabbing her boobs because she loves them. If Jane is like that around her, I wonder what she is like around Dolly.

R60 Carl looks like a real pipe layer!

I can see why Dolly would be dickmatized.

Yeah, Carl has her so dickmatized they hardly ever see each other. lol....

Jane and I once had a four-way with Dolly and the other Jane, R41. At least one of us was always humming, "Here You Come Again."