A 63-year-old woman who worked as a housemaid for country and western legend, Dolly Parton, has told Hello magazine that she often saw Parton's husband, Carl Dean, placing glasses of milk containing bananas, strawberries and other soft fruits against his wife's neck while she practised her singing at their home in Nashville, Tennessee, as a money-saving method of making smoothies.
Mary Carter, also from Nashville, told the magazine: "I saw Mr Parton do it a lot.
"He was a bit of a health nut and loved his smoothies.
"He told me he saved around a hundred dollars a year using this method instead of employing an electrical smoothie-maker.
"He had to be careful though because if he held the glass against her throat during some of the real wobbly-sounding songs like Jolene, the milk used to froth up too much and would spill over down the sides"
In 1993, a former housekeeper to pop icon, Whitney Huston, told a magazine that she once saw a workman holding a bucket containing cement and ballast against the singer's chest while she sang the vibrato parts in 'I Will Always Love You' to make concrete for her garden path
