Dolly Parton reassures fans that she's alive and well!

Entertainment Editor Peter Ford on Dolly Parton reassuring fans that she's alive and well, Robert Irwin's cha-cha-cha and the Beckham family stepping out to support Victoria's upcoming documentary.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Well Dolly partner has reassured fans that she's alive and
well after the internet got a little carry away yesterday.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
If more. We're joined by Piggerford, our entertainment editor Pete.
This all started like family, right, Dolly's sister, Yeah, your concerns, sister.
So the country style wasn't doing too well, and it
kind of like was like a brush fire got.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Away, yeah exactly, and she said I've been up all
night praying well instantly that set off all the alarms.
Freeda is her name, and I don't know if she
actually met that literally, but it certainly, you know, plunged
the world into darkness. You know, Dolly is so loved
by everybody, and so we do know she's sick, and
there's no secret about she's having treatments for a few

(00:40):
different things that she's talked about, but she's clearly felt
the need to go and do this, almost like a
proof of life video. I mean, there's one step away
from you know, holding up a newspaper and saying, oh,
I'm okay, so I take a look at some of this,
and she's actually been she's seeing the funny side of
it all too but I think she wants to calm
everything down his Dolly.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Do I look sick to you?

Speaker 4 (01:07):
I'm working hard here anyway, I wanted to put everybody's
mind at ease. There was Obie that seemed to be
real concerned, which I appreciate. I've got some problems, as
I mentioned back when my husband Carl was very sick.
That was for a long time, and then when he passed,
I didn't take care of myself, so I let a

(01:27):
lot of things go that I should have been taken
care of.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
So anyway, when yeah, so she now look at that,
I would normally show something like that, but Dolly is
actually laughing about it. She mentions it in her piece
to camera, and she actually says, looking at that photograph,
we both should be cremated. So she's been having good
fun with it. There's some real weird stuff happens with

(01:51):
celebrities online now it's so easy to create these crazy images.
But at least she's seeing the funny side about it.
But you can't imagine yesterday a Dolly head quarters or
the phone, well, wouldn't be that many phones going because
Dolly doesn't use the phone. You can only communicate with
Dolly by fax machine. Yes, in twenty twenty five, she's

(02:11):
still shoving her facts to the thing. So anyway, she's
fine and she wants everyone to know it's all okay, Pye.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Did you bring in your personal fax machine so we
could get the sound effects?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah, that's right. Hey.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Robert Irwin chart his way through America's Dancing with the
Stars yesterday.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, he did, and once again was great, although he's
not totally safe. But I guess another breakout story here
is that we talked about the fact there's no doubt
good things are going to come of this series and
his appearance in it. And they actually announced during the
show last night, which was a Disney theme show, that
he will be a part of the upcoming Zutopia movie,

(02:49):
the next one, and he played Robert Ferwin will be
the character that he's playing. So you know, as we said,
there's already good things. But look, I thought he was
great every week. You just know he's giving one hundred
and ten percent. It was chart with Whitney. Take a
look at this.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
I'm messed up to night last fine soup start again,
A bum down.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Keep down, get that seasless justly the fault then get over.
So taking a look at the leaderboard, now, you know,
maybe we're getting a skewed vision of it and we're

(03:42):
kind of assuming all the momentum is behind Robert. That
may not be the case, although I do think it's
very strong. So you can see they're on the on
the leaderboard there. I can barely read it myself, so
try and squint a bit. Robert, Yeah he was down
a bit middle Yeah, yeah, not not totally say so.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
The Whitney Levitt, she's the secret Mormon wife from the
reality show. She was outstanding. Yeah, you couldn't pick between
who was the professional, Like, she was so good.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I felt that Did you feel that way too, Larry.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's just I can tell you quite honestly, like I'm
loving this dancing stuff, but I'm still totally consumed with
the paperbag things from the shop.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Laria Baldwin went home dancing. She was outstanding.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
So with seven angry kids.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
And by the way, Inotopia, he's playing Robert Fuman but
he's a koala. Yeah, oh yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I've really done a very everything about this.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
The Beckhams. I'm excited for this too. The Beckhams, the
family will, most of them have stepped out in London.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, so they had the big launch for it. Emma
Bunton was there and Melsey was there and look there's
lovely family shot. I guess we're going to say that now.
On Victoria's Instagram, she actually says, I'm so pleased to
be here with my family. But there's clearly one notable
absentee there that's Brooklyn. Now, under a normal circumstance, when

(05:13):
you know, you'd say lovely message from Brooklyn to wish
me well or something. Nothing, So here I am with
my family, maybe says a lot. The doctor apparently is
very good. There's just some stuff coming out now. We
might revisit it tomorrow where she does talk very openly
for the first time about her eating disorder. Now, of course,
for a long time people made jokes about her weight

(05:34):
and how skinny she was, and it actually was a
real problem that she says, even my closest family and
friends didn't know about. So we might take a look
at that tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Pete, we're not on tomorrow, so if you can make
sure no one else uses that before Monday. Yeah, you
just keep that as a little morning show exclusive.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Man I will Thanks Pepe. We'll check you out later
in the show of black Course.