Dolly Parton Cancels Much-Anticipated Residency For Unexplained Health Reasons
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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80-year-old country music legend Dolly Parton just posted a 5 minute video to her fans where she began with the good news: she is responding well to treatment for her digestive and immune issues. Dolly joked and teased fans about her health, and ultimately gave us all the bad news, apologizing to fans for having to officially cancel her sold out Vegas residency re-scheduled for this coming September.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Monday, May the 4th, and we just got a major health update about Dolly Parton |
| 0:16.1 | from Dolly Pardon herself. |
| 0:19.2 | And she started it with this. |
| 0:21.3 | I've got good news and I've got bad news. |
| 0:24.4 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:26.8 | Robes, I said a major update. |
| 0:28.9 | This is a concerning one. |
| 0:31.3 | And the reason it's not more concerning is because she delivered it in her classic, |
| 0:36.1 | We Love You, Dolly Way. |
| 0:37.7 | Isn't she, I mean, we all talk of her as a national treasure, |
| 0:41.4 | but she certainly personified that in a, what was it, |
| 0:46.0 | about a five-minute Instagram reel a few hours ago as of this recording, |
| 0:50.4 | she had some tough news to deliver and a big blow to a lot of her fans who have been waiting and waiting and waiting to see her back up on stage. But she did it with the smile. She did it with jokes. She did it with self-deprecation. She did it with love. She did it with gratitude. She didn't look like a woman who has been suffering from anything. She looked like the same dolly we have seen our entire freaking |
| 1:11.2 | live. So we just got this a short time ago, this video from her. And we're going to let you |
| 1:15.8 | hear from her. We're going to play part of the video she put out, but Robes, the headline needs to |
| 1:21.0 | be, first of all, that this much anticipated residency that was delayed already, now turns out we're not going to see it at all. |
| 1:30.2 | Yeah, it does appear like it is completely canceled. This was a big thing. She announced, |
| 1:35.1 | remember last fall that she was returning to Vegas after 30 years? She was going to do six shows. |
| 1:41.6 | They sold out. It was scheduled for December of 2025. |
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