Claim: Rating: About this rating Miscaptioned In 2023, a split-screen image circulated on the social media platform Pinterest, purportedly featuring two photographs of country music icon Dolly Parton. Shown below, the photo on the right featured the singer's recognizably glamorous look of platinum-blond wig and full face of makeup, while the photo on the left allegedly depicted Parton dressed uncharacteristically casually in a white tank top, her face unadorned with cosmetics, her natural hair pulled back from her face. The caption accompanying the photos stated: "Dolly without make up.
" (Diane Di Leonardo/Pinterest) Several commenters pointed out that the woman on the left was not Parton, but rather British-American model-turned-actress Nicollette Sheridan, who starred in early-2000s comedy-drama series "Desperate Housewives." "That's edie Britt from desperate housewives," one follower pointed out, referencing the name of Sheridan's character in the ABC series, while another agreed, "This is not Dolly. She has tattoos of butterflies on her arms.
" Those commenters correctly identified the woman on the left as Sheridan, not Parton. Therefore, we have rated this claim as "Miscaptioned." To confirm the woman on the left as Sheridan, we took a screenshot of the photo and conducted a Google reverse-image search.
We found the same photo on French-language entertainment website Purepeople and also in a Daily Mail article published in 2008. The headline on the Daily Mail story confir.
