{"id":21900,"date":"2025-07-25T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=21900"},"modified":"2025-07-25T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:50:07","slug":"long-before-viral-weddings-and-shock-tv-moments-there-was-that-one-unforgettable-night-when-dolly-parton-walked-down-the-aisle-to-marry-hulk-hogan-on-live-television-it-wasn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new50.info\/?p=21900","title":{"rendered":"Long before viral weddings and shock TV moments, there was that one unforgettable night when Dolly Parton walked down the aisle\u2026 to marry Hulk Hogan \u2014 on live television. It wasn\u2019t a dream, and it wasn\u2019t a sketch. It was glitz, sequins, spandex, and Southern charm colliding in the most wonderfully chaotic stunt pop culture had ever seen. Decades later, fans are still asking: Did that really happen? 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Eventually, he realized the over-the-top flattery wasn\u2019t about hidden motives, it was simply Dolly being her warm, larger-than-life self.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWhen I first got there and she kept telling me she loved me, I thought I was something special,\u201d Hogan wrote. \u201cI thought she was genuinely a big fan. Then I saw she told everybody she loved them, from the cameraman to the key grip to the other 80 guys walking around the set. Apparently, that\u2019s her style.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Watch the hilarious music video below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQbLRwX0EDo\" data-id=\"BQbLRwX0EDo\" data-query=\"feature=oembed\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hulk Hogan Was Featured In One Of Dolly Parton\u2019s Music Videos While Dolly Parton and Hulk Hogan were never actually married in real life, they did tie&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Long before viral weddings and shock TV moments, there was that one unforgettable night when Dolly Parton walked down the aisle\u2026 to marry Hulk Hogan \u2014 on live television. 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