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Dolly Parton is sharing the key to a successful marriage. The country music icon got candid about her 56-year marriage to husband and Nashville, Tennessee, businessman Carl Thomas Dean. “I like it when people say, ‘How did it last so long?’ I say, ‘I stay going,’” Parton said during an interview with ET Canada. “You know, there’s a lot…

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When Blake Shelton signed up to be a judge on NBC’s “The Voice,” he didn’t realize he’d leave with a nine-time champion title, a lifetime of memories and the greatest gift of all — his wife, singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani. Shelton told Fox News Digital after the season 22 finale,” ‘The Voice’ has changed my life in a…

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Michelle Obama had expectations for her first visit to Hawaii with then-boyfriend Barack Obama, and the future president shattered them all. The former first lady told Jimmy Kimmel that she was a second-year law associate dreading another Chicago winter when Obama invited her to meet his grandparents, “Toot” (Madelyn Dunham) and “Gramps” (Stanley Dunham), for Christmas in Hawaii. She had never…

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Christian reality TV star Sadie Robertson Huff recently warned Christians not to take Bible verses intended for marriage and apply them to dating relationships. In an episode of the “Whoa That’s Good Podcast” posted to YouTube, the “Duck Dynasty” star and her husband, Christian Huff, discussed the topic of dating and relationships. “I think sometimes we…

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Blake Shelton treats Gwen Stefani’s sons as if they were his own. He told PEOPLE, “Even though I’m a stepparent, I take that job very seriously. The kids see me as a very important person in their life.” Shelton recently announced that after the 23rd season of NBC’s “The Voice,” he is stepping away from…

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