You can't exactly miss Dolly Parton in a crowd, but put her in a crowd of drag queens and she blends right in!

You can't exactly miss Dolly Parton in a crowd, but put her in a crowd of drag queens and she blends right in!

The country music legend admitted on the Oprah Winfrey Show that she once entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest at a drag club in Santa Monica “just for fun”.

“Lots of drag queens dress up on Halloween like Dolly, and that was back when everybody was dressing like Cher or like me. So I thought how fun would this be?” she says.

“I just kind of over-exaggerated everything I am - bigger hair, bigger beauty mark, bigger boobs, if you can imagine.”

But the teeny-tiny real Dolly was swamped by all her man-sized lookalikes.

“Here all these big drag queens are at least 6 feet tall with their high heels,” she says. “I was kind of lost in the shuffle. They didn’t take me serious at all.”

Maybe she's not giving herself enough credit, after all, she managed second place in the end!

“I did it just for fun,” she says. “It was just fun to tell the story.”