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FORBIDDEN ROMANCE!

Secret marriage talks and how Scientology came between them

1 Jun 2026

From their undeniable chemistry as Sandy and Danny to their rock-solid friendship that spanned decades, Olivia Newton-john and John Travolta have always been a cherished duo. Now an in-depth new biography on the late Australian singer and actress reveals how close the Grease lovers actually came to being in love in real life, almost five decades ago.

For A Little More Love, US author Matthew Hild spoke with Olivia’s close inner circle about her extraordinary life, including the memorable Grease era and her close relationship with co-star John.

“I am amazed at how much people still obsess over that, nearly half a century after Grease!” the biographer tells Woman’s Day about the intrigue surrounding the pair.

In his book, Grease star Didi Conn’s comments about the pair’s “real” attraction resurface, but Matthew also shares a telling revelation from an old colleague of Olivia’s. “More than 20 years after Grease was filmed, a musician who had been married to a Scientologist joined Olivia’s band and

became friends with her,” writes Matthew. “He says that Olivia and Travolta were very, very close. Almost that close.”

GENUINE ATTRACTION

The musician recalls a conversation he had with Olivia about John’s ties to Scientology. “I know the Church of Scientology really reveres him as a very valuable follower,” Olivia said. “If I had married John, would he have expected me to become a Scientologist?”

“It would not have been mandatory, but it would have been encouraged.”

“Thank you,” Olivia replied. “That’s all I want to know.”

Matthew tells Woman’s Day, “People focus so much on whether the two of them were ever romantically involved when they should be focusing on what a deep and tight friendship they had for as long as Olivia lived.”

The co-stars did share a unique bond that lasted from their Grease days to Olivia’s tragic passing in 2022. She once described their time on-set as “magic”, admitting, “I had great love and support from him and the feeling was mutual.”

Matthew reveals the extent to which John cared about Olivia, saying, “During her health battles in her later years, he offered to fly her on his jet anywhere she might want to seek medical treatment.”

In the end, timing played a pivotal part in Olivia and John’s story. The actor, 72, has said, “It almost happened between us a few times, but it didn't. Sometimes life just offers you the wrong timing. We had to leave it as dear friends.”

MOVING ON

Olivia went on to marry and divorce Matt Lattanzi, Chloe’s father, and in 2008 she wed John Easterling, her partner until her death. John was married to Kelly Preston for 29 years until she passed away in 2020.

Despite this, Olivia occasionally thought about what might have been. “Clearly, she had wondered about the, ‘What if?’” Matthew tells Woman’s Day. “But no one I spoke to gave me the sense that she had deep regrets about it. I didn’t get the impression that she considered John ‘the man who got away’.”

‘Clearly, she had wondered about the “what if?”’

 

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John & Olivia’s SECRET ROMANCE RIDDLE!

THE PAIR’S ENDURING LOVE IS AT THE CENTRE OF A NEW TELL-ALL

• New Idea
• 1 Jun 2026

Olivia Newton-john’s decades long love affair with her Grease co-star John Travolta has been laid bare in a revealing new biography.

In Matthew Hild’s newly released A Little More Love: The Life and Legacy of Olivia Newton-john, the author interviewed those closest to the singer and actress, who sadly passed away on August 8, 2022, after a long-fought battle with breast cancer, aged 73.

“I don’t quite have the smoking gun, but I think the preponderance of evidence is pretty darn suggestive,” he told People magazine of what he turned up.

Among the stories he uncovered was one from actress Didi Conn, who played Frenchy in Grease. Speaking with journalist Stephanie Nolasco, she said she believed John, now 72, had a genuine attraction to Olivia and there was no faking their on-screen chemistry in the 1978 film.

‘They weren’t acting … it was real’

In fact, they shot an alternate ending to the movie in which their characters, Danny and Sandy, indulged in a “juicy” kiss.

“They weren’t acting at that moment … it was real, it really was,” Didi insisted.

While the pair stayed in each other’s orbits for the next four decades – even re-teaming for 1983 rom-com Two of a Kind, which further sparked romance rumours – ultimately, Hild notes that John’s devotion to Scientology is what stopped anything from developing between them.

“More than 20 years after Grease was filmed, a musician who had been married to a Scientologist joined Olivia’s band and became friends with her,” he wrote. “He says that Olivia and Travolta ‘were very, very close. Almost that close.’”

He recalled a conversation the pair had, in which the Australian star asked her bandmate if she would be expected to become a Scientologist if she were to marry the actor.

Though he insisted it “would not have been mandatory”, he said it “would have been encouraged, put it that way”. Olivia simply replied, “Thank you. That’s all I want to know.”

In 2018, Olivia said on the No Filter podcast she felt the pair not giving in to their real-life attraction only added to their on-screen chemistry.

“I think it was good, because I think it kept the tension there and the chemistry,” she said. “It might have been a real disaster had we decided to date or we had a falling out or something.”

She added that both were “with other people” during filming and “respectfully, it just didn’t happen”.

Upon her death in 2022, John shared a touching tribute to his “dearest Olivia” on Instagram. “I love you so much,” he wrote. “We will all be together again. Yours from the moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!”

COUPURE DE PRESSE

Olivia Newton-John con nueva biografía

“A Little More Love”, la biografía escrita por Matthew Hild, revela charlas privadas de personas cercanas a la artista

• Diario Correo
• 16 May 2026
• CORREO | AGENCIAS redaccion@prensmart.pe

DIVA Una de las más exitosas de la historia.

Una nueva biografía sobre Olivia Newton-John revela detalles inéditos de la vida privada de la cantante y actriz australiana, fallecida en 2022 a los 73 años tras una larga batalla contra el cáncer de mama: desde su casi romance con John Travolta hasta sus intentos por ayudar a Karen Carpenter en sus últimos meses de vida.

El libro “A Little More Love”, escrito por Matthew Hildo, reúne entrevistas nuevas y de archivo con amigos cercanos y colegas de la artista. La obra traza su trayectoria desde una infancia marcada por la timidez extrema, entre Inglaterra y Australia, hasta convertirse en una de las figuras más queridas del entretenimiento global.

Uno de los capítulos más comentados del libro aborda la relación entre Newton-John y su coprotagonista en Grease, John Travolta. Según Didi Conn, quien interpretó a Frenchy en el filme, la química entre ambos era completamente real.

El libro también detalla los esfuerzos de Newton-John por ayudar a su amiga

Karen Carpenter, quien luchaba contra la anorexia nerviosa.

Stephanie Spruill, cantante que trabajó con ambas, recordó haberlas visto juntas en una reunión donde todos comían langosta y caviar, con excepción de Carpenter. “Estaba enferma. Muy enferma”, dijo Spruill. “Olivia intentaba que comiera... era terrible”.

Stephen Sinclair, amigo y vecino de Newton-John en aquella época, coincidió en ese retrato. “Lo intentó con todas sus fuerzas, una y otra vez, tratar de ayudarla y ser una buena amiga para ella. Y cada vez que la veía, estaba más delgada”, señaló.

Article Name:Olivia Newton-John con nueva biografía

Publication:Diario Correo

Section:OPINIÓN

Author:CORREO | AGENCIAS redaccion@prensmart.pe

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NOSTALGIE

 

MUSE

 

‘OLIVIA IS MY FOREVER MUSE!’

The Aussie popstar shares a special bond with her late idol

• Woman's Day (New Zealand)
• 18 May 2026

Just days out from Eurovision’s finale in Vienna, Aussie songbird Delta Goodrem is finally starting to feel the nerves. And while she’s used to performing on stages around the world in front of thousands, the reasoning behind the jitters is a little more personal.

“I mean, Olivia Newton-John has been on the Eurovision stage,” she gushes to Woman’s Day. “And we’ve had Céline Dion. Those two women are the biggest influences for me in music since I started.

“That’s pretty amazing to know that the two people who I love so dearly have both been a part of the Eurovision family.”

It’s a connection Delta, 41, cherishes. Over the course of her career, she’s written songs for both Olivia and Céline, sang duets with Olivia on stage and portrayed the late Grease goddess in the 2018 miniseries Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted To You.

It’s been a dream come true for the singer, who first met Olivia in New York when she was seven.

“We’d just gone to Phantom Of The Opera and it was the first time I’d seen the theatre,” recalls Delta. “All of a sudden,

Sandy from Grease walks in the door and I said to Mum, ‘Sandy is there, Mum. It’s Sandy!’ Olivia heard my accent, and she walked over to our table and said, ‘I hear you’re not from around here, then?’

“She talked to my mum and said, ‘I hope I see you around tomorrow,’ and the next day, I walked around New York looking for Olivia Newton-John! I was looking for her always.”

‘It’s amazing to think that Olivia has been a part of Eurovision’

Their bond strengthened when, in 2003, Delta was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at age 18. The Born To Try hitmaker says Olivia, who herself had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, reached out to her.

“She wrote a long letter talking about her cancer journey and how it’s a gift to give back to people, and we bonded instantly,” Delta remembers.

Tragically, less than 20 years later, Olivia would lose her battle with the disease, but her death has brought new perspective to the jobs Delta chooses to align herself with.

Eurovision not only feels like a full-circle moment, but also as though she’s following in the footsteps of her mentor.

“I’m just really grateful that Olivia and Céline have been a part of it,” she tells us.

Delta is set to hit the Eurovision stage in Austria for the second semi-final this Thursday, which will be streamed live on YouTube, and her song Eclipse has bookmakers predicting she could be the first Aussie to win the grand final on Sunday. Given the track was released the same week as an actual partial lunar eclipse happened, Delta hopes the cosmic alliance will help her.

“I want Aussies to be with me and for us to do this together,” she enthuses. “I’m so excited and grateful. I’m just enjoying the fact that I get to be a part of such an incredible community and family. It’s been really, really fun.”

Article Name:‘OLIVIA IS MY FOREVER MUSE!’

Publication:Woman's Day (New Zealand)

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Les familles de ces stars australiennes ont navigué vers l'Australie dans le cadre du programme de migration assistée.

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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN

Before she was Sandy in Grease, Olivia was a bud­ding singer, grow­ing up in Mel­bourne. In 1954, when she was just five, Olivia and her fam­ily sailed from Eng­land to their true home of Aus­tralia. “I’m so happy about finally becom­ing an Aus­tralian,” Olivia proudly said when she became a cit­izen in 1994 at the request of her daugh­ter Chloe Lat­tanzi. “When Chloe heard the news, she was jump­ing around, just ecstatic.”

Avant d'être Sandy dans Grease, Olivia était une chanteuse en herbe et a grandi à Melbourne. En 1954, alors qu'elle n'avait que cinq ans, Olivia et sa famille ont quitté l'Angleterre pour rejoindre leur véritable patrie, l'Australie. "Je suis tellement heureuse de devenir enfin australienne", a déclaré fièrement Olivia lorsqu'elle est devenue citoyenne en 1994 à la demande de sa fille Chloe Lattanzi. "Quand Chloé a appris la nouvelle, elle sautait partout, juste ravie."

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