Dolly Dazzles as Glitzy Cheerleader for Cowboys Halftime Show
Music icon Dolly Parton sparked a social media frenzy last night as she bedazzled football fans with a scintillating halftime performance dressed as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Channeling her inner Texan bombshell, the 77-year-old country queen dazzled in a plunging cropped top with a blue-and-white vest and barely-there white denim shorts. Parton’s signature curves were on full display in the cheeky ensemble, which she paired with a crystal-encrusted catsuit underneath.
Ever the glamazon, Parton finished the look with blonde tresses teased to the heavens, a full face of flawless makeup, and silver cowboy boots custom-bedazzled with floating goldfish in the heels. As she belted out hit tracks like “Jolene” and “9 to 5,” the star proved she can still work a crowd better than women a fraction of her age. Parton also led the stadium in renditions of classic arena anthems like “We Are the Champions” and “We Will Rock You.”
On Twitter, fans went wild over the icon’s age-defying performance. Dolly Parton is 77 and hotter than me,” one enthused, while another declared her “a national treasure.” Other reactions included “Damn, Dolly Parton looks better than the real Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders!” and “77 years old and smokin’!
Parton has credited her famously voluptuous style to a local woman she admired growing up, known as the “town tramp.” As she told the Guardian, “She was flamboyant. She had bright red lipstick, long red fingernails. She had high-heeled shoes, little floating plastic goldfish in the heels of them, short skirts, low-cut tops, and I just thought she was beautiful.” The preacher’s granddaughter added, “When people would say, ‘She ain’t nothing but trash,’ I would always say, ‘Well, that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up.”
While her risqué style occasionally got her in trouble as a young girl in her conservative mountain town, last night Parton proved she has perfected the art of dazzling a stadium with her signature glitz and glamour. At 77 with millions of albums sold, the artist remains at the peak of her showwoman powers.
