Forget silly Lily, the real role model is classy Dolly

SOMeTIMeS it’s hard to keep up with the latest indicators of feminist triumph, but you can depend on the Brits for a few pointers.

This year’s awards ceremony to honour music industry stars was an eye-opener, in more ways than one.

Before the show, lily allen shared some bathroom secrets, including photos of the plucky popster plucking hairs from her nipples — thanks for sharing, darling. Your suffering is noble.

Then, singer Jess Glynne was hailed as a super-feminist for taking off her make-up onstage. ‘So brave,’ gasped one fan.

Honestly, I despair. When did women become so self-obsessed and feeble? Thank goodness for Dolly Parton, the redoubtable 73-year-old who would probably rather die than admit to beauty shortcomings, or appear in public without her slap and elaborate wigs.

‘It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,’ she once said, and she meant it. Dolly was one of 12 children raised in a dirt-poor family, who grew up in a Tennessee cabin.

In a recent swipe at #MeToo, she said she was hit on a lot by predatory men when she was young, but never slept with anyone she didn’t want to. She is my idea of what a feminist looks like. Responsible for herself. and always a class act.