After 57 years of marriage, Dolly Parton reveals how she and her husband, Carl Dean, maintain the spark.

Dolly Parton is famous for her glammed-up public persona, and the singer says she likes to get a little gussied up at home, too, even when it’s just her and her husband of 57 years, Carl Dean.

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