{"id":2107448,"date":"2026-08-23T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2107448"},"modified":"2026-08-23T07:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:07:43","slug":"dolly-parton-says-shes-exploring-avatar-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2107448","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Says She\u2019s Exploring \u2018Avatar Performances\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tDolly Parton says she and her team are in early talks with companies that produce \u201cavatar performances,\u201d as she continues working through health issues that have sidelined several appearances this year.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI am dealing with some health issues that I just didn\u2019t pay attention to when I was watching over Carl,\u201d Parton, 80, told People<\/em> in an interview published Friday (Aug. 21), referring to her late husband, Carl Thomas Dean, who died in March 2025 at 82 after nearly 60 years of marriage. <\/p>\n

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\n\tShe said the avatar performances, which she did not describe in detail, are still in the \u201cearly stages of development.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tParton framed the current stretch as difficult but not unprecedented. \u201cIt\u2019s not like I haven\u2019t been through hard times with my health,\u201d she said, recalling being \u201cdown for several months with female issues\u201d in the early 1980s. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe added that public scrutiny feels more intense now than it once did: \u201cI think because we live in a 24\/7 world with social media, everything gets magnified in ways it wasn\u2019t years ago. I used to joke that I was the Queen of the Tabloids, but now I guess I can say I\u2019m the Queen of Social Media AI! Seriously, though, even though I\u2019m still healin\u2019, I\u2019m still workin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe interview followed a string of missed appearances. Parton postponed a planned Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, first pushing the December 2025 dates to September 2026 before canceling the run entirely in May. <\/p>\n

\n\tShe also appeared only virtually for several 2026 engagements, including the Academy of Country Music\u2019s Poet\u2019s Award at the ACM Honors and, most recently, the dedication of Dollywood\u2019s new NightFlight Expedition ride on Aug. 14. <\/p>\n

\n\tParton has not toured traditionally since 2016. In March, at her first in-person public appearance of 2026, she told a Dollywood crowd she had been \u201cworn down and worn out\u201d from grief and needed to rebuild herself \u201cspiritually, emotionally and physically,\u201d while maintaining that her health issues hadn\u2019t slowed her down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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