{"id":330548,"date":"2026-08-26T22:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:06:53","slug":"dolly-parton-surprised-queen-latifah-with-the-sweetest-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330548\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Surprised Queen Latifah with the Sweetest Gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the world continues to pay tribute<\/a> to the late, great Dolly Parton<\/a> in the wake of her death at 80 years old on August 25, this story about how she once surprised Queen Latifah<\/a> with a thoughtful act of kindness highlights just how much she will be missed.<\/p>\n

How to Watch<\/p>\n

Watch the Season 30 premiere of The Voice\u00a0Monday, September 21 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and stream next day on Peacock.<\/p>\n

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During an October 2022 visit<\/a> to The Drew Barrymore Show, The Voice Season 30 Coach<\/a> couldn’t stop raving about Parton, sharing how the “9 to 5” singer cooked a cozy meal for her after a long day on set many years ago. \u00a0<\/p>\n

RELATED: Jimmy Fallon Honors “Butterfly” Dolly Parton: Watch Her Play Her Nails in “9-5” Duet<\/a><\/p>\n

Dolly Parton sweetly cooked chicken and dumplings for Queen Latifah: “She’s just the salt of the Earth”<\/p>\n

After giddily admitting she would regularly receive letters from Parton \u2014 pink-colored letters, of course \u2014 Queen Latifah revealed the lengths Parton would go for her while they were filming their 2012 movie Joyful Noise together, which also featured The Voice<\/a> Season 31 host<\/a> Keke Palmer<\/a> in a starring role.<\/p>\n

“She’s just the salt of the Earth. I mean, we did a movie called Joyful Noise together, and we had so much fun,” Queen Latifah explained. “She wrote all these songs, and she made me chicken and dumplings.”<\/p>\n

RELATED: Queen Latifah Pulled Up to The Voice Set in the Most Unexpected & Epic Way<\/a><\/p>\n

“Oh my God,” Drew Barrymore<\/a> said, adorably burying her head in her hands.<\/p>\n

“After a day at work, who the heck has time to make chicken and dumplings for me? Dolly,” Queen Latifah stated.<\/p>\n

It’s just another example of the impact Parton made on everyone she crossed paths with through the years.<\/p>\n

“There’s nothing she can’t do,” Barrymore added.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Keke Palmer Tells Amy Poehler the Powerful Life Lesson Queen Latifah Taught Her<\/a><\/p>\n

Queen Latifah says Dolly Parton could “spit the rhymes”<\/p>\n

But that’s not all. Queen Latifah, who will also compete as a Coach on The Voice: Celebrity<\/a> alongside Riley Green and Joe Jonas<\/a> in 2027, revealed that Parton could’ve had a career in the rap game if she so chose!<\/p>\n

“And she can rhyme the whole ‘U-N-I-T-Y’ \u2014 she spits my rhymes,” Queen Latifah told Barrymore, referring to her own 1993 hip-hop classic<\/a>. “She spits the rhymes. You know, she got it, so she’s bringing the attitude.”<\/p>\n

RELATED: Queen Latifah Teases Major Music News Ahead of The Voice Debut: “I’ve Been Holding…”<\/a><\/p>\n

The conversation ended with Queen Latifah addressing Parton directly: “Thank you, Dolly, again, for all your support.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the world continues to pay tribute to the late, great Dolly Parton in the wake of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[30608,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,10070,59412,5627],"class_list":["post-330548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-dolly-parton","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-relationships","tag-the-voice","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}