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Dolly Parton - 5 to 9 Commercial Feb 2, 2021 23:04:47 GMT

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Country music icon Dolly Parton has revealed why she twice turned down former President Donald Trump’s offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

In an interview on the “Today” show on Monday, the “Jolene” singer and lifelong philanthropist said it was just a case of bad timing. She also explained why she’d be hesitant to accept the accolade now from President Joe Biden.

“I couldn’t accept it (from Trump) because my husband was ill and then they asked me again about it and I wouldn’t travel because of the COVID,” she recalled.

“So now, I feel like if I take it, I’ll be doing politics, so I’m not sure,” Parton continued. “I don’t work for those awards. It’d be nice, but I’m not sure that I even deserve it. But it’s a nice compliment for people to think that I might deserve it.”

“I think everyone thinks you might deserve it,” “Today” host Hoda Kotb responded. (Watch the video above).

Parton has contributed to a slew of charitable projects. She was cheered last year after it emerged she had donated $1 million to fund a vaccine for COVID-19. It’s prompted calls for a statue of the singer at the Tennessee state Capitol in Nashville.

Former President Barack Obama admitted last year that not awarding the medal to Parton had been a “screw-up” of his administration.

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Dolly Parton - 5 to 9 Commercial Feb 3, 2021 4:44:57 GMT

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"Workin' 5 to 9, you've got passion and a vision. 'Cause it's hustlin' time, only way to make a livin'," the 75-year-old sings in the ad. "Gonna change your life. Do something that gives it meaning with a website that is worthy of your dreamin'!"

With the song serving as the ad's soundtrack, Parton appears at the end of it on a magazine named 5 to 9, where she gives her signature Dolly wink. On Tuesday, she spoke to Today about the commercial.

"We did something real special working with Squarespace, which as you know, is this new way to get things out there — building your own websites, promoting your own products," Parton told Hoda Kotb on Today. "This was a wonderful way to bring back that song and add new words and talk about what these new people are doing so I'm excited about it."

"I work 365 [days a year]. I'm always working 5 to 9, 9 to 5. I work all hours of the night and day," she also told The Associated Press. "Whatever you need to do, you gotta get it done, however many hours it takes."

The singer also spoke about calling for kindness as a gift for her recent 75th birthday.

"Wouldn't that be a great gift for the whole wide world, not just for my birthday?" she asked. "I just hope that we're gonna get our stuff together one of these days [because] it looks like we're in for some hard times. But we can make it easier, make it lighter if we just cared a little more, tried a little harder. And I still believe that we're going to come out of it eventually, and we're gonna be better."

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Dolly Parton - 5 to 9 Commercial Feb 4, 2021 3:19:03 GMT

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Dolly Parton revealed on Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press that she has yet to get her COVID vaccine, but she's going to get it eventually — and on camera!

"I'm not going to get mine until some more people get theirs. I don't want it to look like I'm jumping the line just because I donated money," the 75-year-old — who is now eligible for the vaccine — told AP. "I'm very funny about that. I'm going to get mine though, but I'm going to wait."

"I'm at the age where I could have gotten mine legally last week. I turned 75. I was going to do it on my birthday, and I thought, 'Nah, don't do that. You'll look like you're just doing a show.' None of my work is really like that," she added.

Parton explained that she's definitely "going to get it" and she wants her shot to encourage others to do the same. (Perhaps she'll get the Moderna vaccine she helped fund!)

"When I get it, I'll probably do it on camera so people will know and I'll tell them the truth, if I have symptoms and all that," she said. "Hopefully it'll encourage people. I'm not going to jump the line just because I could."

The singer also spoke to AP about donating $1 million to coronavirus research at the start of the pandemic.

"I follow my heart. I'm a person of faith and I pray all the time that God will lead me into the right direction and let me know what to do. When the pandemic first hit, that was my first thought, 'I need to do something to try to help find a vaccination,'" she said. "I just did some research with the people at Vanderbilt — they're wonderful people, they've been so good through the years to my people in times of illness and all that. I just asked if I could donate a million dollars to the research for a vaccine."