Reba McEntire Has Never Met Dolly Parton's Husband or Visited Their House

While Reba McEntire again Dolly Parton have been close friends for more than 40 years, there are still a few things the “9 to 5” singer keeps private.

“Is Dolly as good at cooking as she says she is?” Andy Cohen asked McEntire, 69, during a recent episode of his SiriusXM radio show Andy Cohen Live.

In response, McEntire revealed that he “never has [Dolly’s] food” or go to his house.

“He never invited me,” they said This is Happy's place star revealed, adding that she has never met Parton's husband, Carl Thomas Dean.

“I saw something the other day that they were camping, and she and Carl went back to where they got married,” McEntire said, agreeing with Cohen that it's truly amazing that Parton, 78, has been able to maintain her relationship. under the radar. “Well, I feel better than you [Andy] I have never seen him.”

Cohen, 56, however, had no idea how he would ever meet Parton and Dean.

“Well, what do I know? Who did I meet?” he laughed. “You're the queen of the world, Reba, in my mind.”

Parton and Dean, 82, have been married since 1966, two years after meeting outside a Nashville laundromat.

“We're good partners,” Parton said only Us Weekly in January 2022. “We both have a sense of humor. …We can solve any problem and any situation, make a joke about it and not let it get too difficult, but we respect and love each other. We were lucky, let's put it that way.”

Parton continued to tell Us how she and Dean keep their spark alive.

“Last year for his birthday, I put on my Playboy bunny suit, made him breakfast and [ran] we've been around that for a while,” Parton said at the time. “You know, many people can keep a marriage [going strong] if you make a little effort. Some people just back off and are lazy and do things that aren't important, like leaving the toilet seat up. And if that's the worst thing you have to worry about, you're already in trouble.”

Although their 50-year marriage remains a pillar of strength, Dean is rarely interested in joining Parton in the public eye.

“Carl has never been in the headlines for everyone; he never wanted to be in it. He doesn’t like it,” Parton said in the 2023 episode What would Dolly do? The radio on Apple Music 1. “He went to one thing with me in the beginning, when we first got married, he went to the BMI Song of the Year. [event]he came out when he took off his tuxedo, his tie and all that and he said, 'Don't ever ask me to go to one of these bad things because I'm not going.' I never asked him and he never asked.”