Dolly Parton Once Entered a Dolly Parton Lookalike Contest — And Lost. The Story Gets Better From There.
2026/06/21
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Dolly Parton Once Entered a Dolly Parton Lookalike Contest — And Lost. The Story Gets Better From There.
There is a version of this story that sounds like a joke setup. It is not a joke. It happened.
Sometime in the late 1970s, at the height of her fame, Dolly Parton entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest at a venue in California.
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