Dolly Parton, 77, is a household figure in country music as well as the celebrity world.

The Tennessee native has become nothing short of a legend, and despite having spent her whole life performing and singing, she has always enjoyed entertaining her millions of admirers.

However, the renowned superstar has formally confirmed that she will no longer tour, despite continuing to create new music.

Dolly Parton announced her retirement from touring in a recent interview with Pollystar. She elaborated:

“I’ll perform a few special shows here and there. Perhaps a long weekend of shows or a few shows at a festival. But I have no plans to embark on a full-fledged tour.”

Dolly Parton, who rose to the pinnacle of world entertainment while growing up in poverty in the Appalachian Mountains, will undoubtedly be missed on stage.

However, the 77-year-old country music legend will continue to compose music and, rather than touring, will devote her time to her beloved husband, Carl Thomas Dean.

Dolly met Carl Dean outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1964. Dolly was 18 years old at the time, and Carl was 21. Carl noticed something special about the young lady right away.

“My first thought was, ‘I’m gonna marry that girl,’” Dean said of the moment they met, according to Entertainment Tonight.

“My second reaction was, ‘Lord, she’s pretty.’ That was the start of my life. “I wouldn’t trade the last 50 years for anything.”

Dean was sitting in his pickup vehicle when he saw Dolly and “hollered” at her, she recalled in a 1976 interview with the New York Times.

She, however, declined a date with him. Instead, she asked him over the next time she babysat her nephew. It was the beginning of an unending love story.

Dolly and Carl married in a private ceremony in Ringgold, Georgia, in May 1966. Her record label advised them to postpone their wedding because she had a career to consider.

Dean and Dolly, however, did not want to wait and chose to marry in Georgia so that the local press in Tennessee would not write about it. Dolly, Carl, and her mother were the only ones present.

Dolly and Carl have been profoundly in love ever since. The couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2016. They chose to renew their vows to commemorate the occasion…..