She will not be working 9 to 5.

Dolly Parton shared that she’s taking a break from music following the death of her longtime husband, Carl Dean, in March.

“I can’t do it,” the country icon told Khloé Kardashian on Wednesday’s episode of the “Khloé in Wonder Land” podcast.

“I can’t do it right now ‘cause I got so many other things that I can’t afford the luxury of, you know, of getting emotional right now,” Parton, 79, continued.

Despite being “stalled” for now, the singer promised her music career isn’t over.

“I’ll write something else, though, if it comes. I’m just putting that all on hold.”

Parton and Dean were married for nearly 60 years at the time of his passing. He was 82.

The Grammy winner shared the news of his death via Instagram on March 3.

“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy,” she wrote in a statement.

The country star and her family also asked for privacy during the difficult time.

Dean, who ran an asphalt road-paving business in Nashville, met Parton outside a laundromat in 1964 when she was 18 years old.

The couple was notoriously private. The “I Will Always Love You” songstress shared on the podcast that Dean only saw her perform once, right after they got married in 1966.

She joked that sometimes fans would ask if he was Parton’s husband, to which he would reply, “Do I look like Dolly Parton’s husband?”

Though she’s taking a break from songwriting, Parton shared that she’s not worried about bouncing back after her hiatus.

“That’s my special [thing]. That, to me, is my joy, and it happens just to be my job.”

Chip and Joanna Gaines know that things have changed for them since they first became parents, and it’s becoming apparent as they raise their youngest son.

The HGTV stars spoke with PEOPLE for a new special edition, Chip & Joanna Gaines: Their Next Chapter (available now), and were asked if parenting is any different for them now that they are “famous parents.” Reflecting on the fact that their four older kids — Emmie, 15, Duke, 17, Ella, 18, and Drake, 20 — are now mostly grown, the couple says that things are different for their youngest, son Crew, 7.

“In my mind’s eye, it’s almost like we’re sitting at this big long table, and you’re on one side, and I’m on the other side. Crew is this little prep-school kid somewhere in the middle,” Chip, 50, jokes. “And we’ve got one of those little holders that holds the little egg. And we’re like, ‘Excuse me, Alfred, can we please get another this or not?'”

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“Like, this kid is going to have a totally different upbringing,” he continues, joking, “these prior four were out shoveling cow manure at [ages] 6, 8, and 10.”

“It’ll be a little different,” Joanna explains. “But I think we have a little more capacity now to think more ‘future.’ What we care about the most is being together and celebrating moments together.”

The mom of five goes on to say that the couple has been prioritizing laying the groundwork to make sure they always have time for their family.

“We can finally have this space to think beyond just the everyday grind,” Joanna says. “I feel like we’re in this really beautiful season of reflection, but also now we can breathe, and we can see the future. What’s the vision for our family? What’s the vision for this business? Finally, we’re there, and now it’s like, ‘Okay, sky’s the limit!'”

Chip explains that for them, family has always been the priority, even when they were also focusing on their business.

“Ten years ago, we were extremely selfish in our desire to protect our family at all costs, which is not easy,” he says. “Everybody knows marriages are hard, families are complicated.”

“Family was most important. Business was most important. Our family was sincerely the most important, but it was a very close second that we cared so deeply about this business, and we wanted it to be relevant. We wanted it to be real,” Chip continues. “Now fast-forward 10 years, and things have shifted in this beautiful way.”

The proud dad says that now, they’re lucky enough not to have to worry about “making it” anymore.

“I just feel a lot more confident about who we are as a couple now,” Chip says. “I love who we are together. And now you look at these beautiful kids who are — knock on wood — evolving into just great human beings. Just to raise kids that are not brats seems like a low bar, but it is harder than it looks.”

“We’ve got a boy who’s dating now, and the dad keeps reaching out like, ‘Hey, I’m so thankful for the way you’ve raised this boy because he’s really good to my daughter,’ ” the dad of five explains. “We don’t care if they’re the President of the United States or they’re going to go to Yale or Harvard. Obviously, we’d love for any of those things to occur, but that wasn’t the bar we set.”

“It was just like: Don’t be jerks. We care about our kids being good people in the communities that they eventually step into,” he adds.

For more from this exclusive interview, pick up PEOPLE’s new special edition Chip & Joanna Gaines: Their Next Chapter, available now.

Jamie King appears to be firmly in Loverville.

The “Hart of Dixie” star is engaged to investment banker Austin Sosa following her contentious divorce battle with ex Kyle Newman, People reports.

King, 46, recently lost physical custody of her sons James, 11, and Leo, 9, and was forced out of her Los Angeles pad for owing more than $42,000 in back rent.

As a result, King had been “staying with [Sosa’s] parents” in the lead-up to their engagement.

“She is very close with his family,” a source told the outlet.

In new photos obtained by Page Six, King flashed her diamond sparkler following an appointment at Sally Hershberger Salon in West Hollywood Monday.

King has only included Sosa in the caption of her Instagram post from last month, though she did not post a photo of her new beau.

“My God, I am the luckiest and most great mother ever. Thank you to Pammy, Chase, Austin, Gwendolyn and Carlos. Family forever 🎀💅🏻💯💗,” she wrote alongside several images of her with her two sons.

In March, a judge ruled that King and Newman, 49, will share legal custody of their two children, but the filmmaker will have sole physical custody.

King was given visitation rights, but she would have to be supervised and could only see the boys three times a week. In addition to supervised visits, King had been ordered to finish six months of rehab for drugs and alcohol. 

Her custody agreement was dramatically amended after she failed to complete a six-month drug and alcohol program that consisted of weekly testing, a 26-week parenting program and both individual and conjoint counseling with her children.

“I’ve never had to think about myself as sober or not sober. I stopped using drugs at 17 or something,” King said.

In October 2024, Newman filed for sole custody of the kids after claiming he found his ex-wife “strung out” and “drunk” while watching their sons.

The exes were locked in a lengthy legal battle over finances and custody when King filed for divorce in 2020 after 13 years of marriage. They finally settled their divorce in 2023.

In March, King broke her silence after being kicked out of her LA home for racking up more than $42,000 in back rent.

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