{"id":735872,"date":"2026-08-12T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735872\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T19:12:17","slug":"dolly-parton-just-gorgeous-recalls-the-one-show-alex-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735872\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton just gorgeous&#8217; recalls The One Show Alex Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dolly Parton may be known for her glamorous wigs and full face of make-up, but Alex Jones says, before she becomes Dolly on stage, she is &#8220;still absolutely striking&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The TV presenter first met the American country singer, who is said to be &#8220;tickled pink&#8221; about her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cx9w2e1nn9eo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh roots<\/a>, in a dressing room before an interview at the start of her long stint as The One Show host. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In front of me she transformed into Dolly and I thought how special that we all know her as this vivacious, very made-up beautiful woman,&#8221; she recalled in a chat about her most memorable guests for the show&#8217;s 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But actually she was equally striking and equally impressive because she is just a nice person.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jones told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002zqtp\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Kay on BBC Radio 2<\/a> that, as a young host, she was called into Dolly&#8217;s dressing room. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She was like, &#8216;Come in darling&#8230; come and sit&#8217;,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She had no make-up on,  so it was before she becomes Dolly.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton may be known for her glamorous wigs and full face of make-up, but Alex Jones says,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}