Dolly Parton is sharing an update about her health during her first major public appearance of 2026.

On Friday (March 13), the iconic 80-year-old singer delivered a keynote address on opening day at her Dollywood theme park in Tennessee, celebrating the park’s 41st anniversary.

“I’ve not been touring, as you know,” Parton said, according to footage shared by local station WVLT 8. “I’ve had a few little health issues, and we’re taking good care of them.”

Parton’s Dollywood visit comes months after the “Jolene” hitmaker postponed her Las Vegas residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace due to undisclosed medical procedures. The residency, originally set to start in December, is now scheduled to begin in mid-September.

The postponement also followed the death of her husband, Carl Dean, who passed away at age 82 in March 2025. The couple had been married for nearly 60 years.

“I just kind of got worn down and worn out, grieving over Carl and a lot of other little things going on,” Parton continued. “I just got myself kind of where I needed to build myself back up spiritually, emotionally, and physically. But, all is good. It didn’t slow me down.”

She then joked that she’s “not dating anybody,” before sharing more heartfelt words about her late husband. “I think Carl Dean’s waiting for me,” she said. “If I should show up at the pearly gates with somebody else, he would not like that. He’d be saying, ‘Who’s that little pisser? You leave him outside the gates.’ ”

Parton also revealed Friday that she’s rewriting songs for her upcoming Broadway musical, Dolly: An Original Musical, which is expected to launch in New York this year.

At the event, Parton took a question from the audience about the guidance she follows in life. “Never forget who you are, never forget where you came from, and always kind of go back home,” Parton responded. “You can always go back home in your heart and in your mind.”

Spacey Jane have released a new single, “Do You Really Love Her,” alongside a music video, and announced an extensive run of U.S. summer tour dates — the Australian indie rock band’s first new music since their critically acclaimed third album If That Makes Sense.

Frontman Caleb Harper explained the song was left off the album but always destined to surface. “For some reason the song didn’t feel like the right fit for the album but we always wanted it to see the light of day,” he said in a statement.

Written on Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills with collaborators Sarah Aarons and Joel Little, and produced by John Hill, “Do You Really Love Her” draws on classic Australian pub rock. “Bands like INXS, The Church and Icehouse are both nostalgic and inspirational to us,” Harper said.

Harper described the single — and what follows — as a deliberate creative experiment. “This release and the others to follow are almost experiments,” he said. “Songs we love that didn’t end up on an album. Something we want to share while we take stock and reset.”

The If That Makes Sense Tour kicks off June 2 in New Haven, Conn., with festival appearances at Governors Ball Music Festival (June 6), Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival (June 14) and Osheaga Festival (Aug. 2). The band will also support Rainbow Kitten Surprise on a run of amphitheater dates through July, including stops at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles (July 21) and Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Denver (July 25). Artist presale begins March 17 at 10 a.m. local time; general on-sale follows March 20.

Additionally, the band will release Live at The Hordern Pavilion (Sydney, NSW) 2025 on Record Store Day this April — a live album drawn from three sold-out nights at the legendary Sydney venue.

If That Makes Sense debuted at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Chart and earned nominations for Best Rock Album and Best Video at the 2025 ARIA Awards, while Spacey Jane was named the most played artist on Triple J for the year.

The band’s 2020 debut Sunlight produced the signature single “Booster Seat,” which won the ARIA Award for Song of the Year and has since been certified 7x platinum.

Don Toliver made the quantum leap to rap’s A list with the arrival of the Houston native’s OCTANE album in January. Toliver’s fifth LP topped the Billboard 200 with 162,000 album units earned — his first No. 1 — and all 18 tracks landed on the Billboard Hot 100.

The 31-year-old stopped by the Billboard House @ SXSW on Friday (March 13) ahead of his headlining performance later that night at The Stage at SXSW.

Sitting down with Billboard staff writer Michael Saponara, Toliver discussed OCTANE‘s success, having Travis Scott as a mentor, sampling Justin Timberlake on “BODY” and already starting to work on his next album.

Even six weeks after its arrival, “BODY” currently remains inside the Hot 100’s top 25 (No. 23). Toliver gushed about his fandom of Timberlake, but admitted he didn’t initially recognize the “Rock Your Body” sample when he was recording the track.

“Honestly, I love Justin Timberlake a lot. My mom played him, Pharrell and Outkast and all these crazy great artists when I was growing up as a kid in the car,” Toliver explained. “I got a lot of fond memories of that. Justin Timberlake is always one of my favorites. Justified, that album is literally in my top 10 favorite albums of all time.

He continued: “I didn’t think that deep into it. As I sat with it for like a week, I was like, ‘Hold on, this is literally one of my favorite songs of all-time.’ ‘Rock Your Body’ is one of those songs that triggers an endorphin in my body. To put those two together was so iconic for me.”

Toliver reconnected with his Cactus Jack mentor, Travis Scott, on OCTANE standout “Rosary,” but it was an 11th-hour appearance from La Flame, who sent over his vocals nearly at the buzzer. Their relationship has grown since Don T signed to Cactus Jack in partnership with Atlantic Records in 2018.

“I really try to keep the relationship that me and him have as far away from music as I can sometimes,” he said. “At the end of the day, we are human beings.”

Toliver added: “This album, I was like, ‘Whatever Travis wanna do — he could pull up however he wanna do it. I just wanted to make sure he understood my journey with the music when I played it for him. He just caught a vibe for ‘Rosary’ and he understood my idea for it. It was crazy, I really love his verse on the song.”

Even though OCTANE arrived less than two months ago, Toliver revealed he’s already working on his next album.

“I am already working on my next album,” he said. “To be honest, bro, I just realized within myself that I just love music and I just feel like right now if I don’t put out anything, I just need to capture this moment because it’s a lot going on in my life when I was making this album and when it came out and it’s just fueling me to be as creative as I can possibly be.”

In addition to panel conversations all weekend, Billboard House is also hosting daily performers, with Dizzy Fae, Alicia Creti, Kairo Keyz and Babyfxce E taking the stage on Friday’s day 1. DJ Cortez also provided daytime sounds for the space.

Watch the full interview with Don Toliver below.

Richard Grenell, an ally of President Donald Trump who oversaw far reaching changes at the Kennedy Center that prompted many artists to abandon the iconic performing arts venue, will step down as the institution’s president.

Trump announced the change in a social media post on Friday after it was first reported by Axios. The president said Matt Floca, who manages the Kennedy Center’s facilities operations, will succeed Grenell. The moves are expected to be finalized at a board meeting scheduled for Monday at the White House, according to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss plans that are not yet public.

Grenell’s departure comes as the Kennedy Center prepares to close this summer for a two-year renovation.

“Ric Grenell has done an excellent job in helping to coordinate various elements of the Center during the transition period, and I want to thank him for the outstanding work he has done,” Trump said online. “THE TRUMP KENNEDY CENTER will be, at its completion, the finest facility of its kind anywhere in the World!”

Grenell was a central player in Trump’s push to dramatically overhaul the Kennedy Center following the president’s return to office. After mostly ignoring the center during his first term, Trump made it a focal point in his war against “woke” culture. He ousted the Kennedy Center’s previous leadership and replaced it with a hand-picked board of trustees who voted to rename the facility the Trump Kennedy Center, a change scholars and lawmakers say must be initiated by Congress.

More recently, Trump’s name was physically added to the building’s iconic facade.

The fallout from the arts community was swift and intense, with prominent musicals, such as “Hamilton,” canceling performances. Actor Issa Rae and author Louise Penny also withdrew from appearances while consultants such as musician Ben Folds and singer Renée Fleming resigned. Last week, the executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, Jean Davidson, left to head the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.

The Kennedy Center was long known as an apolitical space

Perhaps best known for its annual honors program, the Kennedy Center was long one of the few places in Washington where political differences were put aside. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — ideological opposites — famously attended the opera together.

But the venue became something of an extension of Trump’s White House during his second term. The president was instrumental in convincing FIFA President Gianni Infantino to hold the World Cup draw there in December. Just a few days later, Trump himself hosted the Kennedy Center honors, the first for a president.

Since then, Trump has addressed House Republicans at the Kennedy Center. The documentary of first lady Melania Trump also premiered there.

Grenell is a longtime Republican foreign policy adviser. During Trump’s first term, he was the U.S. ambassador to Germany and special presidential envoy for Serbia and Kosovo peace negotiations. He also served as acting director of national intelligence and was considered a contender for secretary of state in Trump’s second term, a post that ultimately went to Marco Rubio.

In his position at the Kennedy Center, Grenell emphasized what he called “common sense” programming, aiming to steer the venue toward events that appealed to a broad audience and didn’t lose money. But his moves prompted criticism from many Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released documents in November showing the Kennedy Center entered into an agreement giving FIFA “exclusive” use of the facility from Nov. 24 through Dec. 12 at no cost, arguing that the venue was at risk of losing millions in potential revenue because of the arrangement.

The Kennedy Center told the AP at the time that it was being paid $7.4 million to host the draw, including a $2.4 million donation from FIFA, as well as sponsorship opportunities and expenses. In a response to Whitehouse, Grenell said he raised $117 million last year.

But the wave of cancellations proved difficult to sustain. Without mentioning the abandoned performances, Trump said in February he would close the Kennedy Center for two years after this summer’s July Fourth celebrations to repair what he has described as a dilapidated building.
Ahead of the closure, Grenell warned staff about impending cuts that will leave “skeletal teams.”
According to Floca’s LinkedIn page, he joined the Kennedy Center in January 2024, during the Biden administration.

A center press release from the time describes him as “an experienced facilities management professional with a construction management background and an appreciation for whole building design principles.”

Previous experience for Floca listed on LinkedIn includes a handful of positions with the District of Columbia government, among them associate director of sustainability and energy and director of facilities management. He graduated from Louisiana State University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science degree in construction management.

This story was first published by The Associated Press.

Access Hollywood and Access Daily were canceled on Friday (March 13) as part of  NBCUniversal’s decision to end all first-run syndication programs produced by the network. The programs will continue to produce new episodes until September.

Access Hollywood was launched by NBC in 1996 as a competitor to CBS Media Ventures’ Entertainment Tonight, which debuted in 1981. Access Hollywood was created by former ET executive producer Jim Van Messel.

Access Hollywood gained infamy in the 2016 election cycle. On Oct. 7, 2016, one month before that year’s presidential election, The Washington Post published a video and article about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and TV host Billy Bush having a lewd conversation about women. In the video, which was recorded in September 2015, Trump and Bush were on a bus on their way to film an episode of Access Hollywood.

News of the recording broke two days before the second presidential debate between Trump, the Republican nominee, and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. For his part in the conversation, Bush was fired from his position as a host on Today, another show owned by NBCUniversal. Trump was not similarly penalized. On Nov. 8, he won the 2016 election.

NBCUniversal is also cutting several of its other daytime talk shows, effectively ending its first run syndication business. Talk shows Karamo and The Steve Wilkos Show, produced out of NBC’s facility in Stamford, Conn., are shutting down. The programs have already completed their production for the season and will run through the summer.The Steve Wilkos Show ran for 19 seasons.

NBC previously announced that The Kelly Clarkson Show is ending later this year after seven highly successful seasons.

Francis Berwick, chairman of Bravo and Peacock unscripted, said in a statement that the company will continue to distribute library episodes of its talk programs and network shows such as Law & Order. But NBCU’s days of launching series for daytime and the hour before prime time have come to an end.

“NBCUniversal is making changes to our first-run syndication division to better align with the programming preferences of local stations,” Berwick said. “The company will remain active in the distribution of our existing program library and other off-network titles, while winding down production of our first-run shows.”

Access Hollywood, and its counterpart Access Daily, are both produced in Los Angeles. They are currently hosted by Mario Lopez, Kit Hoover and Scott Evans. Correspondents are Zuri Hall, Jason Kennedy and Tim Vincent.

Former on-air staff, besides Billy Bush, includes such notable TV personalities as Michelle Beadle, Steven “Cojo” Cojocaru, Giselle Fernández, Liz Hernandez, Jill Martin, Larry Mendte, Maria Menounos, Natalie Morales, Nancy O’Dell, Pat O’Brien, Amy Powell, Jeff Probst, Tony Potts, Shaun Robinson, Sibley Scoles and Liliana Vazquez.

Access Live officially debuted under that name on Dec. 11, 2017. The show has undergone several name changes and refreshes throughout its history. Since 2019, it has been called Access Daily.  A spinoff show, Access Daily with Mario & Kit, debuted in 2022.

In April 2021, Access Hollywood and Access Daily were both renewed for four additional seasons through 2025. In 2024, they were renewed, though this time only for two years, through 2026.