My favorite fact about Miley Cyrus is that her godmother is Dolly Parton. I know Miley has done a lot of work with animals and the LGBTQ community and I don’t want to downplay that but every time I’m reminded she’s Dolly’s goddaughter, my heart flutters. Of all people on earth I would want to say is my godmother, Dolly would have to be the top of that list. And because Miley has the coolest godmother on the planet, she understands it is her responsibility to occasionally sate us with Dolly facts. The latest Dolly fact Miley shared is that the divine Dolly P wants a word with you, she sends it via fax. While phoning in to the Graham Norton show, Miley said Godmomma Dolly was looking for her to collaborate on a Christmas song for her upcoming album. Only Miley doesn’t have a fax, and Dolly isn’t pleased when you don’t respond.
Dolly Parton had an antiquated way of reaching out to Miley Cyrus.
In a PEOPLE first look of the “Midnight Sky” singer’s appearance on The Graham Norton Show, she reveals that her godmother Parton sent her a fax asking to collaborate on her holiday album.
“So Dolly Parton, she called you?” asks Norton, 57.
“She faxed me,” replies Cyrus, 27, adding that she herself doesn’t even own a fax machine.
“She gets upset when you don’t respond,” she says about the 74-year-old country legend. “And it’s like, I’m sorry, I don’t even know. Half the people watching your show might not even know what a fax machine is.”
I’ve included a brief clip below because Miley looks amazing. I don’t know who coordinated her look with the chair she’s in but it’s gorgeous. And I have just about bit my tongue clear off trying not to comment on how much I hate Miley’s mullet but… I don’t hate it here. I don’t love it, but at least it isn’t making me shout WHY?! at my screen.
What I like even more than Miley’s look is the idea of Dolly sending faxes. What does she do if you don’t respond, send another fax? I bet Dolly has a whole network of faxes spanning the Lincoln Highway. She probably has a giant wall map with pins marking every fax machine in the country. You will all be relieved to know that Miley’s dad, Billy Ray, has an old fax machine in his gym, so the fax was, eventually, received and answered.
If you got a fax from Dolly, you would totally read it in her voice, right?
I didn’t realize is that the aforementioned Christmas album, A Holly Dolly Christmas, is already out and her song with Miley is called Christmas Is. I haven’t heard it yet, my kids have very strict rules about only celebrating the holidays that actually fall in the month we’re in. But see – if Dolly were my Godmomma, one fax and my kids would hush up about Christmas music in October.
Photo credit: YouTube and Getty Imaes
Hilarious. I would get a fax machine if I could get a fax from Dolly.
Watched the Dolly Parton documentary on netflix last night, and i can’t recommend it enough.
Good amount about her first movie- and interviews with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
And i just loved it.
It was definitely the best decision i made this week.
I didn’t realize there was a Dolly Doc on Netflix, I know what I’m watching tonight, in bed, hiding from the town hall debates. My husband is persistent about having Biden’s streaming on all tv’s even if I’m not going to watch them. He doesn’t want 45 to get any wins, especially not the ratings kind.
Tell your husband thank you from someone who will also be hiding in bed streaming the Dolly doc!
Ooh I missed that, I’ll look out for it. Thank you.
Putting it on right now! Thans
This is the cutest story I’ve read today. They really threw out the mold when they made Dolly Parton. I watched Steel Magnolias a dozen times just for the Truvy scenes and just about everything that Dolly Parton has ever been in. Even that cringe show ‘Heartstrings’ just to gaze at her gloriousness.
I’m kind of in love with that chair…
The purple outfit is delightfully Dolly. I HATE the hair. Good grief please stop tormenting my eyes with that.
I would buy a fax machine right now if Dollly would fax me!
Love the chair! I think that hairstyle is called a shag. Similar to a mullet, but different–not as long in the back, with layers all around. Maybe that’s why you like it, Hecate! It’s a “shag haircut” as we called it in the 70s. Mullet is the 80s version.
You don’t have to have an actual fax machine these days to receive faxes.
This is the best I’ve seen Miley look in a while and the mullet looks good here.
She’s looking a little healthier too.
Miley is 27 years old – wow, time really does fly. I think there will come a day when she combines acting and singing again in a comedy format. I honestly think that she has good comedic timing. Imagine A Star is Born but its a story about a stand up comic! 🙂
Miley has copped a lot of flack but I love her, I think she’s really talented, and of course I love Dolly no end. Their (duet) version of Jolene is wonderful