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Only a handful of people were lucky enough to know Dolly Parton as closely as Miley Cyrus did.
Long before she was a music star in her own right, let alone a household name, she was Parton’s goddaughter.
Now, she is thinking back to bittersweet memories of this national icon — and this tremendous loss.
Miley is also sharing one thing that so many people never understood about Parton.
‘How real she is and how authentic she is’
Miley Cyrus spoke about the late Dolly Parton in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.
The late cultural treasure always wore her larger-than-life wigs and costumes, but Miley stresses that the real woman never changed.
“She’s known for, I guess, the faux, the fake, the hair, the makeup, the show of it,” she acknowledged in the interview.
“But there’s a part of her that’s just what I think everyone gravitates toward,” Miley assessed.
She described that aspect of Parton as “how real she is and how authentic she is.”
Much of the interview had to do with Miley’s new album, Bass Persuades.
“The time that we talked, which was the last time we would talk, it was actually me telling her about this record,” she shared.
She praised her late godmother “because even though we are so different, that’s what made us so perfect for each other.”
And Parton’s counsel was welcome long before adults knew who Miley was.
“There was a time in my life, I mean, we hit on it with Hannah [Montana], so much of my life’s about persona,” she reflected.
And few know more about persona than the late, great Dolly Parton.
‘You can still have a persona and still be who you are’
According to Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton was instrumental in helping her to navigate a level of fame that far eclipsed her has-been father or any of her siblings.
“I think a way that I could look at that as, you can still have a persona and still be who you are, is because I had Dolly,” she affirmed.
Music can be very evocative. For Miley, that has meant crying during some performances. Parton felt very differently.
“She was like, ‘Music is escapism. Let them cry. Get through it,’” Miley recalled.
“I know, but this is who I am,” she described telling her godmother, who apparently replied that she “loved me for it.”
To ring in 2023, Miley teamed up with Parton. The two sang a duet of “Wrecking Ball” and “I Will Always Love You.”
It was a mash-up, and Miley felt pretty darn emotional during it. She knew that her godmother would not always be around.
“So many of my really stabilizing peers that I have in my life, they’re generations before me,” she described.
“And they’ve laid down brick by brick the road that I travel now,” Miley continued, “and they aren’t always going to be here for me to call them and say, ‘What do I do now?’”
Thinking back, she praised that Parton was “always right about stuff.”
NBC should bring back that special every NYE, by the way, and broadcast it live on Peacock. C’mon.
Miley Cyrus Reveals What Everyone Got Wrong About Godmother Dolly Parton was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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Tom Brady doesn’t want to hear the excuses for the Los Angeles Rams from their season-opening loss against the San Francisco 49ers in Melbourne, Australia. In the season-opening edition of #AskTom, Brady made it evident that he doesn’t care about the narrative that the Rams might have been jet-lagged from their last-minute flight to Australia before their 27-7 loss to the 49ers. “There was one thing I thought about during all that: How much garbage people were talking about the stupid travel,” Brady said. “You know what matters? Playing good football. I don’t give a s— if you show up five minutes before the game, an hour before the game, a week before the game — when you show up and you walk out on the field, complete the passes, make the blocks, make the tackles and play good football. There’s nothing more important than execution. “Yeah, all the things might set up better execution on game day — travel, food — but at the end of the day, go out there and play well. That’s how I settled the debate.” The Rams didn’t arrive in Melbourne until just over 24 hours before kickoff, a move that was widely questioned in the lead-up to the season-opening matchup. The 49ers, meanwhile, made their way Down Under over a week before the game, getting acclimated before their dominant win. That was just one of a few things that Brady hit on in his mailbag. He also fielded a question on the Super Bowl LI call sheet he showed during the Week 1 broadcast of the Washington Commanders-Philadelphia Eagles game before explaining certain routes and offensive concepts. Here’s the first full Ask Tom of the 2026 season. Q: Does terminology change from year-to-year, or do I have Josh McDaniels’ full playbook now? Brady: You might have some words in the playbook, but you never know what Josh is cooking up. That Super Bowl call sheet was all dependent on who we had on the team, what our strengths were, going against who Atlanta had as their defenders and what we thought their weaknesses were. I thought the most important thing I was showing during that game is we worked really hard for two weeks to get all those plays segmented in the right places and, ultimately, Josh had to call them at the right time. There’s still a lot of in-game adjustments happening, but I just wanted the viewer to know that the process for putting calls in the call sheet is an arduous process. It’s all about continuous conversations by everybody, working to get all the calls in the right box so that when that situation comes up, it’s really easy for Josh to find it, queue what he wants to call and then relay it to me as quickly as possible. It’s not just a random set of plays. It’s not a playbook; it’s a call sheet. In the playbook, there’s maybe 1,500, 2,000 different calls you can make. We boiled that down to 100, 120. Out of those, maybe 65, 70 actually got called and there’s always a little bit of adjustments throughout the game to make sure you’re giving yourself the best chance to win during that day, too. Q: Do you have to memorize the call sheet? If we wiped that, do you have to write that in yourself? Brady: No, it’s literally impossible. There’s no way that could happen. There’s just way too much vernacular, so to speak, on those call sheets; they’re very detailed. You have to know every motion — it could be a Zip, Zap, Zat, Whack, Hat, Home, Condo — I’m really not [making up words]. It just sounds like [I’m making up words]. It’s called football speak, and it’s a language in itself. Listen, I was really s—ty at Spanish, French and all of that. I wasn’t bad at football. I knew my football language. Q: On the “Gronk & Jules” show, they said that you would tell them to commit if you’re going to run the wrong route. How would you know when that’s going to happen? Brady: I think there were a couple of players — Jules and Gronk — who didn’t mind ad-libbing a little bit because, sometimes, let’s say you have an inside route called, but the defender jumps inside. I would never mind if, rather than pressing him inside, I would rather press him inside and work him a little bit to the outside to still find the open spot. There was no point in running to a covered area of the field. You don’t want to break into another guy’s zone, so to speak. What you really want to do is still find a soft spot, but that soft spot moves four or five yards in each direction. I think the one guy that I really look to in the NFL right now who has incredible feel, and has for a long time, is Travis Kelce. He and Patrick [Mahomes] have a great chemistry between the two of them. Travis is never going to run to a spot that’s covered. He’s always going to pull up a little bit short or run through that area to find the next open zone. That’s what great football players do. And that takes a lot of time to get to that place as well, between a quarterback and receiver. But when it works, it’s magic. Q: Jules and Gronk were some of the best at that, that you played with? Brady: They really were. I put Wes Welker in that mix. I put Mike Evans and Chris Godwin in that mix. I put James White in that mix. Kevin Faulk in that mix. They didn’t want to run into covered areas, and I don’t blame them, because if you’re running into covered areas, guess what I wasn’t doing? They were covered, I wasn’t throwing them the ball. Q: What’s your take on the 49ers-Rams travel debate? How did you handle long flights before games? Brady: That’s a great question. It’s really top of mind, too. There was one thing I thought about during all that: How much garbage people were talking about the stupid travel. You know what matters? Playing good football. I don’t give a shit if you show up five minutes before the game, an hour before the game, a week before the game — when you show up and you walk out on the field, complete the passes, make the blocks, make the tackles and play good football. There’s nothing more important than execution. Yeah, all the things might set up better execution on game day — travel, food — at the end of the day, go out there and play well. That’s how I settled the debate.” Q: You called one of Jalen Hurts’ completions in Week 1 a “Butterfly with sore legs.” You made my English teacher proud on Sunday. Can you tell us a little bit about your literary upbringing? Brady: I like to tip my cap to Mr. Ralph Stark, my sophomore English teacher at Junipero Serra High School. Thank you for all of the C-plus grades you gave me that helped me continue my athletic career. I wasn’t the best student; you know that. I was always pretty good on your quizzes. I had a lot of friends that helped me; they took the test in Period 2 when I had the test in Period 4 and they helped me with some of the answers. But I owe it to Mr. Stark and all my other English teachers that helped me through the Shakespearean period that I was really talented at as well.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports