Jelly Roll’s meteoric rise to country music fame brought us an extra gift: his wife, Bunnie Xo. The model and podcaster is never far from her man’s side, and Jelly clearly loves showing off his wife. At the 2024 CMT Music Awards, the “I Am Not Okay” hitmaker’s proudest moment was not the three trophies he took home, but seeing his wife get her own reserved seat. Much more than just a country star’s wife, Bunnie Xo has built her own brand from the ground up. And she recently celebrated a major milestone by welcoming Dolly Parton onto her Dumb Blonde podcast.
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Bunnie Xo Got to “Live a Dream”
Three years after marrying Jelly Roll, Bunnie Xo launched her Dumb Blonde podcast in 2019. The entrepreneur (real name: Alyssa DeFord) has welcomed a wide range of guests onto her show, “asking the questions others are afraid to.”
Taking to TikTok Saturday (Dec. 7), Bunnie shared a reel of her preparing to interview the great Dolly Parton for Dumb Blonde. “Today I got to live a dream,” she said.
In the reel, Bunnie also provided some insight into her hilariously relatable pre-interview thought process. “Internally freaking – trying to breathe,” she wrote above one clip. In another, she added, “Disassociating.”
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Dolly Parton Talks “Magnetism” Of Johnny Cash, Friendship With June
Speaking to Bunnie Xo on the Dumb Blonde podcast, Dolly Parton reflected on her friendship with iconic country music duo Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. The “Jolene” singer has called Cash her first crush.
“Because he had so much magnetism… I found out later it’s ’cause he was coming off drugs,” Parton told Bunnie wryly. “He just had twitches of what I thought was magnetism.”
Before too long, Parton had become “best friends” with the “Jackson” hitmakers. “As the years went by, we would visit,” said the 11-time Grammy Award winner. “We liked each other a lot.”
June Carter Cash, who died in 2003 at age 73, “was a loudmouth like me,” Parton said. “So we got along just fine.”
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