{"id":118485,"date":"2024-09-25T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/25\/miley-cyrus-is-apparently-related-to-dolly-parton-by-blood\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:01:16","slug":"miley-cyrus-is-apparently-related-to-dolly-parton-by-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/25\/miley-cyrus-is-apparently-related-to-dolly-parton-by-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus is apparently related to Dolly Parton by blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-25\/Getty_MileyCyrus_032924.png\" alt><figcaption>Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong> is <strong>Miley Cyrus<\/strong>&#8216; godmother, but now we know they are apparently related by blood.<\/p>\n<p>According to new research from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/c\/ancestry-blog\/entertainment-and-culture\/dolly-parton-miley-cyrus-related\">Ancestry.com<\/a>, the pair are distantly related, connected by a man named <strong>John Brickey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Brickey, who was a Tennessee resident born in Virginia in 1740, is apparently Dolly&#8217;s sixth great-grandfather and Miley&#8217;s seventh great-grandfather. This would make the two superstars seventh cousins, once removed.<\/p>\n<p>Dolly learned she was related to Miley during a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kEtj8pAYB-g\"><em>Access Hollywood<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs that true? That\u2019s amazing!&#8221; Dolly said. &#8220;I\u2019m sure she&#8217;ll get a kick out of that, but it doesn\u2019t surprise me because she does feel like family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news is timely, as it comes before Dolly is set to release her new album, <em>Dolly Parton &amp; Family: Smoky Mountain DNA \u2013 Family, Faith &amp; Fables<\/em>, in November. The record centers on Dolly&#8217;s ancestral lines across the Smoky Mountain area, and features performances from her family members and loved ones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kEtj8pAYB-g?si=6Cg5lfPuy7ehAiTw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic via Getty Images Dolly Parton is Miley Cyrus&#8216; godmother, but now we know they are apparently related by blood. According to new research from Ancestry.com, the pair are distantly related, connected by a man named John Brickey. Brickey, who was a Tennessee resident born in Virginia in 1740,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/09\/25\/miley-cyrus-is-apparently-related-to-dolly-parton-by-blood\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}