The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in May 2016, and Dean issued a rare statement about his famous wife.

When I first met Dolly Parton, my first thought was, I’m going to marry that girl, he recalled.

My second thought was, Lord, she’s hot. That was the start of my life, I wouldn’t trade the last five decades for anything on the planet. For the first time in a half-century, Carl said the sweetest words to the songstress publicly.

Carl Thomas Dean: Is Dolly Parton still married to her husband?

Dolly Parton and Carl Dean married in 1966 after meeting at a local launderette, and despite Dolly’s success, they are still happily married today. Their love has endured five decades and Dolly Parton’s incredibly successful music career.

Do they have children together?

Despite growing up as the fourth of 12 children, the Grammy winner and Dean never had their own children. On the flip side, Dolly is well-known for her Imagination Library charity, which has distributed over 100 million free books to young children since its inception in 1995.

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