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Dolly Parton 'Saved Life' Of Nine-Year-Old Actor While Filming Her Netflix Christmas Movie

Gregory Robinson

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Dolly Parton 'Saved Life' Of Nine-Year-Old Actor While Filming Her Netflix Christmas Movie

Featured Image Credit: Talia Rossi Hill/Instagram

Dolly Parton's Netflix Christmas film, Christmas on the Square has delighted fans and viewers since it premiered last month. In a rather shocking turn of events, it has been revealed that Dolly saved the life of a nine-year-old actress from the path of an oncoming vehicle during during production.

Talia Rossi Hill, who plays the youngest of three siblings featured in the film, said the incident happened when she went to get a hot chocolate. The legendary country music artist, who stars as an angel in the film, became an actual guardian angel when she made the crucial intervention.

Talia Rossi Hill with her fellow cast members on set of Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (Credit: Talia Rossi Hill/Instagram)
Talia Rossi Hill with her fellow cast members on set of Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (Credit: Talia Rossi Hill/Instagram)

Speaking to Inside Edition, Talia said: "There is a vehicle moving and I was walking and then somebody grabbed me and pulled me back, and I looked up, and it was Dolly Parton.

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"I was like, surprised, I was like [gasp].

"And she was like, 'I am an angel you know', because she plays an angel in the movie - and I was in shock.

"She hugged me and said, 'I saved your life'."

Touched by an angel!

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Christmas on the Square premiered on Netflix on 22 November 2020. The synopsis reads: "A rich and nasty woman returns to her hometown to evict everyone but discovers the true meaning of Christmas thanks to the local townsfolk - and an actual angel. Features 14 original songs with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton!"

Dolly Parton plays an angel in the Netflix Christmas movie Christmas on the Square (Credit: Netflix)
Dolly Parton plays an angel in the Netflix Christmas movie Christmas on the Square (Credit: Netflix)

Saving Talia is not the only good deed from Dolly this year. She contributed towards funding the almost 95 per cent effective Moderna coronavirus vaccine, having donated $1 million (£750,000) to Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Nashville, one of the vaccines trial sites, back in April.

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Her donation is also helping to fund further Covid-19 research at the centre.

Vanderbilt University Medical Centre spokesperson, John Howser, told the BBC: "Her gift provided support for a pilot convalescent plasma study that one of our researchers was able to successfully complete.

"Funds from Dolly's gift are also supporting very promising research into monoclonal antibodies that act as a temporary vaccine for Covid. Two of these antibodies are now being tested by a global pharmaceutical firm."

Dolly really is a lifesaver.

Topics: Christmas, TV and Film, Celebrity News, Netflix

Gregory Robinson
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