{"id":58873,"date":"2026-10-23T00:49:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=58873"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:49:07","slug":"carrie-underwood-43-steps-out-to-honor-dolly-parton-but-her-face-and-dress-quickly-become-the-talk-of-the-night-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=58873","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Underwood, 43, Steps Out to Honor Dolly Parton \u2014 but Her Face and Dress Quickly Become the Talk of the Night \u2014 Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carrie Underwood stepped out to honor Dolly Parton, the country legend she had admired for nearly two decades. But when photographs from the emotional Nashville celebration appeared online, something about Carrie&#8217;s appearance quickly caught people&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some fans were delighted by what they saw, while others had surprisingly different opinions. Yet this wasn&#8217;t just another glamorous night for the 43-year-old singer \u2014 it marked the closing chapter of <strong>a relationship that began with an unforgettable standing ovation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carrie and Dolly appeared alongside fellow American Idol alum Kellie Pickler at a November 2009 celebration for Parton&#8217;s &#8220;Live From London&#8221; concert DVD in Nashville. | Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in December 2006, <a href=\"https:\/\/ondoho.com\/489589-carrie-underwood-42-flaunts-her-caramel.html\">Carrie<\/a> was still getting used to being famous. She had won <em>American Idol<\/em> just the previous year, and now, at <strong>only 23 years old<\/strong>, she was preparing to perform at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie Underwood stepped out to honor Dolly Parton, the country legend she had admired for nearly two decades. But when photographs from the emotional Nashville celebration appeared&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":25,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58875,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873\/revisions\/58875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}