Dolly Parton spoke of her joy at helping to fund the production of a promising new coronavirus vaccine. The kind-hearted star ploughed $1m(£814,000) of her own money to he Vanderbilt University Medical Center - a partner of the US company Moderna that has developed the Covid-19 vaccine.
She said: “I am a very proud girl today that I had anything at all to do with something that will help pursue this crazy pandemic.” She added on last night’s BBC One Show: “I feel very honoured and proud.
When the pandemic started many months ago I felt led to put some money into he programme at Vanderbilt Hospital, its a wonderful hospital and it’s been so good to me and my family over the years. "I donated a million dollars and they called it the Dolly