9 to 5 star Lily Tomlin has opened up about her friendship with late country icon Dolly Parton.
Lily Tomlin has joked Dolly Parton was “totally innocent” despite being “extremely well endowed”.
The 87-year-old star appeared alongside the late country icon, who died in September aged 80, in 1980 comedy 9 to 5, and she has opened up about their long lasting friendship.
Speaking to E! News, she said: “It meant the innocence that was totally Dolly. The absolute perfection that she brought to her look—her everything.
“That was like out of the genesis of something brilliantly thought out and wholesome, because she was that person.
“She just delivered the essence of that to the audience.”
Lily quipped that Dolly was “extremely well endowed” but still managed to come across as “totally innocent”.
She added: “You could totally see the innocence in her.”
Dolly once joked that she was one of the easiest singers to impersonate due to her massive hair and big boobs.
She made the remark as the Guinness Book of World Records was deciding if a gathering of 1,137 “Dollys” in Ireland qualifies as history’s biggest ever mob of Parton lookalikes.
Dolly was quoted in the Daily Mail saying about the record-setting bid: “Thank you for liking me that much. But I’m easy to do.
“You can buy a cheap wig anywhere, you can pad your boobs if you haven’t got none.”
Dolly also admitted: “I even lost a Dolly lookalike contest once at a drag show.”
And she was “flattered” to find out Dolly the Sheep was named in honour of her famous cleavage.
The Jolene hitmaker got a jokey nod from scientists in 1997 after they used mammary glands to create a duplicate sheep, and she has now opened up about how she loved their tribute gag.
She told The Guardian when asked for her feelings on knowing the creature was named in tribute to her: “I was flattered. You know, when the scientists cloned Dolly the sheep, they used the mammary glands.
“That’s what they call them… glands… the boobs. They said, ‘Oh, we have this sheep, Dolly…’.
“Everybody always played up to these (pointing to her chest), so that’s why we had Dolly the sheep.”
Lily Tolmin jokes Dolly Parton stayed ‘innocent’ despite being ‘well endowed’
