Intro for August 27, 2026

Dear Gossips,Yesterday in this space I referred to Dolly Parton in the present tense, because it seems impossible that Dolly would ever leave. And in many ways, she won’t. Dolly wasn’t exaggerating when she told PEOPLE in a statement last Friday that she was still working and that she still had goals she wanted to achieve.Dolly’s manager, Danny Nozell, with whom she collaborated for over 20 years, said yesterday that Dolly “handpicked” a team that has over “th