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| | Kelly Preston has passed away at 57 following a battle with breast cancer | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Kelly Preston has passed away at the age of 57. She is survived by her husband John Travolta and their two living children, Ella and Benjamin. Their son Jett passed away in 2009. Kelly has been entirely absent from public view for two full years. All of these photos are from the promotion she did in 2018 with her husband for the film Gotti. She had apparently been undergoing medical treatment for breast cancer. The family issued a statement:
On the morning of July 12, 2020, Kelly Preston, adored wife and mother, passed away following a two-year battle with breast cancer, a family representative tells PEOPLE exclusively.
Choosing to keep her fight private, she had been undergoing medical treatment for some time, supported by her closest family and friends, the family rep says. She was a bright, beautiful and loving soul who cared deeply about others and who brought life to everything she touched. Her family asks for your understanding of their need for privacy at this time.
Preston is survived by her husband John Travolta and their children: daughter Ella, 20, and 9-year-old son Benjamin. Son Jett died at age 16 in January 2009.
[From People]
She had been with Travolta for thirty years, which is remarkable in Hollywood and everywhere else. He proposed on New Year?s Eve 1991 and they got married in September 1991, when she was pregnant with Jett. Jett?s passing changed their lives and their marriage, and Kelly got pregnant with Benjamin about a year after Jett?s passing. I would assume this has not been confirmed that Kelly and John have been staying in their home in Florida for the past two years? Travolta has stepped out for some events, like the G?Day USA event in January of this year, and an American Cinematheque event also in January, both in LA. He didn?t speak about Kelly at all at those events. And now he?s raising nine-year-old Benjamin by himself. This is so sad.
I was surprised when Kelly turned up in a Maroon 5 video. But this feels fitting.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | John Travolta doesn't know 'a ton' about #MeToo: 'I?m a citizen of the globe' | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some additional photos of John Travolta and his dusty wiglet at the Cannes Film Festival. He was in Cannes to promote Gotti, the biopic where he plays (you guessed it) John Gotti. I remember how long this project has been rattling around Hollywood at one point, Lindsay Lohan was attached to it, remember? Anyway, Travolta ended up in a Cannes presser and he was asked about the #MeToo movement. Keep in mind that years before the #MeToo movement took off, Travolta?s victims were coming forward and telling their stories to various tabloids. Travolta sexually harasses and assaults men, usually men who work as masseurs. There?s a long history of men suing him in civil court and/or telling their stories to whoever will listen. Travolta is not a good person. So this is what happened when he was asked about #MeToo:
The moderator did ask Travolta about his feelings on the #MeToo movement and whats happening in Hollywood right now ? a conversation, of course, that has been a big topic at Cannes, where 82 women marched on the festivals red carpet to highlight the lack of female filmmaker representation over the years and festival director Thierry Frmaux signed a charter pledging the festival would, among other things, take steps toward gender parity on its executive board.
I honestly dont know a ton about it, because I try my best to keep people equal ? men, women, races, Travolta responded. My father was brilliant at it. He had a global viewpoint. Im a citizen of the globe, and Im a citizen of groups and people.
He segued into the topic of protest, saying he typically viewed it as a last resort, and questioned its usefulness.
Protest is valid. But how do you measure ? how do you differentiate the moment where it becomes invalid? Travolta asked. Its an art, almost, to say, OK, lets protest, but weve achieved that here and these particular rights. Now, lets get smart about how we use that ? protest so it doesnt get into an irrational perspective. If we go back to the humanities of being each others friends and wanting and caring at a deep level, then well make it. But its a dwindling spiral out there.
[From The LA Times]
I just? I mean? WTF? ?Im a citizen of the globe, and Im a citizen of groups and people? he says when he?s asked about victims of harassment and assault coming forward to tell their stories. It?s almost like hear me out he?s trying to say, in a really shady, roundabout way, that people telling their #MeToo stories are narrow-minded and parochial. That if people were just citizens of the globe, they would understand that sometimes you get assaulted by movie stars on the massage table. Ugh. Travolta is such a douche.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | John Travolta's 'Gotti' film pulled from release: is he about to be exposed' | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?ve started calling this year Sex Predatorgate 2017. In Sex Predatorgate 2017, I?ve gotten more than a few emails asking if it?s time to talk about John Travolta. If you?ve been following this blog for years, you might remember that we did extensive coverage of the accusations lodged against Travolta, especially when the stories were really exploding in 2012. Travolta is allegedly a serial harasser and a serial assailant, mostly of young, male masseurs, but sometimes of young men in the general service industries (like, workers on cruise ships). Last time I checked – circa 2012 – more than seven men had accused Travolta of harassment or assault.
It?s difficult for mainstream media to cover the multitude of accusations and stories around and about Travolta, because – much like the Kevin Spacey situation before this year – it would involve ?outing? Travolta. It?s been widely reported in the tabloids for years and years that Travolta has had a series of consensual relationships with men. That?s one thing, and if the stories were just about ?Travolta is on the downlow with consenting male adults,? I would completely understand why no one wanted to touch those stories. Put that to the side though – he?s also been accused for YEARS of abusing service industry workers. Some of them have even sued him.
So? I don?t know if Travolta is about to become the next person outed in some expos, but it feels like something is about to happen:
Lionsgate has iced John Travolta?s Gotti biopic. Just 10 days before the film was set for domestic release under the studio?s Lionsgate Premiere banner, EW can confirm that the project ? about the life of ill-fated mobster John Gotti, head of the infamous Gambino family ? has been sold back to production company Emmett/Furla/Oasis.
The Tracking Board?s Jeff Sneider first reported the news, further indicating that producers will seek new distribution soon. A 2018 release now seems likely, instead of the originally planned Dec. 15 bow. Also starring Travolta?s wife, Kelly Preston, as Victoria Gotti, and veteran actor Stacy Keach as Gotti?s mentor, Aniello Dellacroce, Gotti was directed by Entourage star Kevin Connolly, from a script co-written by Haywire and The Limey scribe Lem Dobbs and The Accused star Leo Rossi.
Further details, including a reason for the sale, remain unclear.
[From Entertainment Weekly]
Deadline reports that this was all some kind of internal distribution beef, as in the film was pulled at the last minute because the actual release of the film was going to be small, and Gotti producers wanted a wider release. But? it does feel weird, right? That all of a sudden, producers have pulled back the release just 10 DAYS before it was due to premiere? Hm.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | John Travolta flubbed Idina Menzel's name because he's attracted to women | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I mentioned some of this John Travolta stuff in a few of the Oscar posts yesterday, but there?s new information so we might as well recap. Even after one of the most viral flubs ever last year, John Travolta was still invited back to present this year. The WTF-ery began on the red carpet, when John Travolta spied his friend Scarlett Johansson (they worked together when she was just a kid). He snuck up behind her to plant a kiss on her cheek while she was posing for the bank of cameras. The photos are pretty creepy.
The WTF-ery continued inside, when Oscar producers decided to lean in to the Adele Dazeem debacle by having Travolta and Idina Menzel present an award together. It was actually one of the funniest and most well-written parts of the evening, and I say this with no shade: I like Travolta more for being willing to eat it and be the butt of the joke (double entendre alert). I think he was genuinely sorry that he mangled Idina?s name and he really did want to make it up to her.
Unfortunately, Travolta decided to fool around with the blocking while he was on stage with Idina. He ended up stroking her chin and touching her face in a rather creepy way. Then, after the Oscars, Travolta put on four layers of guyliner, some mascara and some pancake foundation (NO JOKE) and made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. He joked with Kimmel that “Apparently I played with her chin too much.? And that?s it. That?s the only explanation he gave for the chin-fondling. But he did explain the original Adele Dazeem debacle and how it came about. Guess what? It involved Travolta acting creepy with yet another woman!!
John says that backstage, last year, ?I run into Goldie Hawn. Now, Goldie Hawn is sexy, charismatic, beautiful … amazing, and I was star-struck. I’m star-struck, hugging and loving her up, forgetting that I have to go and do this bit. And they said, ‘You’re on.?? He says he was presented with a card that had Idina?s name written out phonetically, and it was different than the card he was using during the rehearsal.
And all?s well that ends well, I guess. Travolta says that Idina has ?had one of the best years of her life and credits me for that.? Riiight.
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Photos courtesy of WENN & Getty.
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| | John Travolta Signs On for 'American Crime Story' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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He got his start on the small screen with the 1975-79 hit ?Welcome Back Kotter,? and John Travolta is headed back to television.
The ?Saturday Night Fever? hunk will play attorney Robert Shapiro in the forthcoming ?American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson,? based on the double murder trial of OJ Simpson.
Slated to be a 10-part miniseries, ?American Crime Story? is created by Ryan Murphy and promises to be a riveting legal thriller.
Also on the cast are big names like Cuba Gooding Jr. (OJ), David Schwimmer (Robert Kardashian) and Sarah Paulson (Marcia Clark).
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| | John Travolta: Daniel Day-Lewis wanted to play Vincent Vega in 'Pulp Fiction' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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John Travolta was in Toronto a few days ago to promote his newest film, The Forger. He got to work with Christopher Plummer, which is always nice. These are photos from the TIFF premiere ? note the special Toronto Wiglet?. Travolta has changed up his facial hair too, although if you told me his goatee was a face merkin, I would totally believe you. The last time Travolta was out in public, he was ?rocking? that completely gross little soul patch. Now he?s going full-on bear. Or lumberjack. Or something.
Interestingly enough, Travolta sat down with The Daily Beast for a pretty decent interview at TIFF ? you can read the full piece here. He talks about The Forger (I was bored by that part), the 20th anniversary of Pulp Fiction and all of those rumors about his sexuality. I mean, he doesn?t talk specifics about that masseur or this masseur, but he was asked directly about his alleged long-term boyfriend and ?co-pilot,? the same guy who is suing Travolta. Here are some highlights:
On the rumor that Daniel Day-Lewis actively pursued his role in Pulp Fiction: ?Yeah. I remember it was a big deal with Miramax, too, because Daniel Day was hotter than heck and I was colder than Alaska, so the idea that Quentin went for me over Daniel Day-Lewis was a very big deal. But I understand now, in retrospect, why he did. By using Uma, me, and Bruce, he balanced it with pop culture, and that wouldn?t have happened with Daniel Day or anyone else vying for that part. There was a history that the three of us had that balanced the darkness of that movie with a certain levity and humor?like a yin-yang effect. That was very calculated.?
Pulp Fiction is still awesome 20 years later: ?I watched it at Cannes this year, and it?s still got it. The scene that gave me the most pleasure was the scene with Uma in Jack Rabbit Slims?the whole conversation, intrigue, and then moving onto the dance floor. That was my favorite to film. Vincent?s getting to the bottom of why he?s so intimidated by the date, and then she says, ?A foot massage? You think he?d kill someone for that?? She tells me it?s bulls–t and that wasn?t why he was thrown out the window, so it brings a bit of relief to the character, and the spirit of the scene was very playful. She?s trying to size me up about why I?m so aloof, and the scene with the cherry where she?s looking at me thinking, ?What?s this guy all about??
Does he have a theory about the suitcase? ?No, I don?t. [Tarantino] just told me, ?Be completely impressed? like something you?ve never seen before.? But I don?t have a theory.
The lawsuit from his alleged former lover/pilot: ?This is every celebrity?s Achilles heel. It?s just about people wanting money. That?s all. It happens on many levels.?
How he reacts to all of the media speculation about his sexuality: ?I don?t care that much about it. Other people may attack it back more than I do, but I let all the media stuff go a long time ago because I can?t control it. I think that?s why it persists, to some degree.?
[From The Daily Beast]
I give him some bonus points for NOT pitching a hissy fit when he was asked directly about the lawsuit(s) and the speculation. He just seemed low-key about it. Of course it?s lip service. Of course where?s there?s smoke there?s fire. But the truth will out. As for the Pulp Fiction stuff, I feel like I?ve been living in a cave. I never knew that Daniel Day-Lewis wanted to play Vincent Vega!! What the hell? That would have been a completely different movie. And I wonder why Quentin Tarantino has never written something for DDL?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | John Travolta admits Scientologist handlers tailed him for years after Jett's death | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are some photos of John Travolta and Kelly Preston in late January at the Living Legends of Aviation awards. John hosted the event as the official ambassador of aviation, which I don’t understand. He’s a celebrity and a flight enthusiast. He owns several of his own planes. I guess that’s good enough to be a host and ambassador? So be it.
John is currently promoting an onstage special (in London) called “A Conversation with John Travolta.” He’ll discuss his career hits and misses as well as other aspects of his life thus far. Can you believe John is about to turn 60 years old in a month? He sat down with the Telegraph to reveal a few tidbits in advance. Of particular interest is John’s admission that his Scientology minders didn’t leave his side for two years after the death of his eldest son, Jett, at age 16. Poor John is completely brainwashed, or he’s a better actor than I’ve ever given him credit for being. He communicates gratitude for the CO$’s support, but most of us find the idea of Scientology minders very scary in general. Let’s do some excerpts:
On his Oscar nomination for Saturday Night Fever at age 24: “I always knew how lucky I was. So actually I was quite humbled by success when it came. I felt like the decade between 25 and 35 was my most difficult. Then, once Pulp Fiction came into play, I was being offered the most wonderful roles again.”
His feelings on death: “I’m probably less terrified of death than your average fellow now, because people so near to me have suffered before their time and I just feel that if they can do it, so can I. The edge — the panic that most people feel — has been taken off death for me. I almost feel like it’s disrespectful to fear it when others have been able to do it.”
Scientologist handlers followed him for years: “Oh my God. I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t had the support of Scientology. I don’t think I could have got through it. They were with me every day after Jett died. They even travelled with me when I needed to get away. And for a solid two years it was like that. It was only in the second year that I started to take a break of a day or two just to see how I was doing on my own.”
His 1985 dance with Princess Diana: Travolta felt that it was “two victims of [fame] dancing together.” “There really was something lovely and girlish about her, and I felt that I had taken her back to her childhood, when she had probably watched Grease — and for that moment I was her Prince Charming.? He wasn’t nervous, he says, “because I?d seen her dance with Charles beforehand so I knew that she was strong. But she looked like she was leading [him] and because I knew that the world was watching I thought that I really needed to give her certainty that I knew what to do. I put my hand in the middle of her back, brought her hand down so that it wouldn’t be so high and gave her the confidence that we would do just fine. She was the real deal. And I think that was partly because she followed the rule that ‘it’s OK to be important as long as everyone else is equally important.’”
On getting older: “I don’t love the idea of turning 60,” he admits of his birthday later this month, “so I had hoped to keep it under the radar.” He won’t really “close the chapter on playing villains,” he says, until he gets cast as a baddy in a James Bond film. “I would love that. They?re going a different way with their villain in this next film but I?ve spoken to Barbara Broccoli about it and she loves the idea, so that would be great.”
[From The Telegraph]
Of course Scientologists monitored John (and Kelly) for years after Jett’s death. They didn’t want either parent to go “off message” about autism, which Scientology doesn’t believe even exists. Jett died in January 2009, and then John admitted in April during a sketchy extortion trial that Jett was autistic. Presumably, that’s when the CO$ stepped in to prevent John from publicly talking about it again.
Then in 2012, Kelly blamed chemicals for Jett’s autism. That was a really sad interview where she sounded like she was blaming herself. I even remember watching a late 1990s episode of Regis and Kathie Lee where Kelly was discussing how she believed carpet cleaning fluid had caused Jett to develop Kawasaki syndrome. I guess she eventually accepted that Jett did have autism, and it’s all very sad. Especially since the CO$ doesn’t give a flip about how Kelly or John feels. They just want to control the publicity aspect.
Photos courtesy of WENN
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| | John Travolta shows off his newest wiglet in Boston: amazeballs or skunky-tragic? | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Usually, John Travolta Wiglet Watch is something that I can ignore. Travolta loves his wiglets. He treasures them. He devotes a temperature-controlled room in his home for his massive wiglet collection. This is known. This is accepted. We have all accepted it. But seriously, look at this wiglet. THIS IS AMAZING.
Travolta was photographed arriving on the set of his new film, The Forger, in Boston yesterday. He was so proud to show off his new wiglet. I?ve never seen this before ? it?s like his old Welcome Back Kotter hair, but aged to perfection. I imagine Travolta sitting in his Wiglet Room, wearing nothing but leather chaps, gently stroking his wig, admiring the streaks of silver and the subtle Farrah-flip. ?Oh, yes,? Travolta whispered in his Den of Wiglets. ?You will do nicely.? In reality, though, it sort of looks like he?s wearing a dead skunk on his head. Don?t get me wrong, it?s a good quality dead skunk. But it?s still a dead skunk.
Anyway, this should serve as a warning to all of the Boston-area massage therapists ? perhaps it?s a good time to go on vacation, lest you get groped and man-handled by Skunky Wiglet over there. But! The Boston Globe says that Kelly Preston is in Boston with him too ? they took in some Red Sox games over the weekend. If Kelly is around, does Travolta still molest masseurs? I think he probably would.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | John Travolta loves Scientology so much: 'I don't think I?d be here without it' | | Added 11 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are photos of John Travolta being honored for his outstanding contribution to film (with a Lifetime Achievement award) at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic. The festival also celebrated Oliver Stone with the same award, and oddly enough (not really) both stars were already scheduled to be present because they premiered their new film, Killing Season at the festival.
In celebration of his award, John sat down with the Guardian for an interview during which he sings the praises of L. Ron Hubbard’s gospel of Scientology. You’ll notice, of course, that John continues to dance for David Miscavige even when Tom Cruise realizes it’s time to shut up — because John really wants to be the poster boy for the cult. Most recently, Travolta told the tale of healing a car crash victim with a Scientology “assist,” and now he’s deflecting questions about the challenges rightfully heaped upon the CO$ over the last several years. He never really answers the questions about Scientology at all … it’s as if he can just change the subject and make people magically believe him. Whatever:
The best life advice he’s received: “Marlon Brando gave me great advice: never expect things from people they can’t give you. That’s hot. That’ll save you a lot of heartbreak. And, think about it: it has a lot of tentacles. Because if you don’t analyse what a person is capable of doing and if you’re expecting one thing but you’re getting another, well, why didn’t you see that they could only give you that first thing? It’s very powerful.”
Does he still love to dance? “Oh yeah, dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.”
Is he weary of fame? “I don’t do as many movies now, so the pacing of them is better. Back in the days when I would do two or three movies a year and have to do world junkets for each of them — that was tiring, to be completely frank. But when I do a movie a year or so, or go to an event like this, there’s not enough to tire me out.”
On Scientology’s negative press: “Well, you know, I love Scientology. I’ve been involved for 38 years, and I don’t think I’d be here without it because I’ve had a lot of losses and different negative things that have happened over the years and it really got me through brilliantly. I would walk in to a session feeling one way and walk out feeling a lot better.”
Why he gave up Catholicisim for CO$: “There are techniques for actually ridding you of stresses and pain as opposed to an advisory or recommendation on how to live. I believe L Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain — that’s what I really think has happened here.”
His memories of James Gandolfini: “I’ll tell you two small stories that will explain how I feel about him. The background is that my father sold automobile tyres to his father in New York, and he would see my photograph in the store window, and it inspired him to be an actor. Later, we ended up doing five movies together. When my son passed away, (3) he would not leave the city until I was OK, he was worried about me, and I felt it was so human, and so unusual for an actor to have this depth of feeling about someone. Before that, we were shooting a little movie with Salma Hayek [Lonely Hearts]. He was going through a divorce and was very sad. I saw him backstage and said: ‘Jim, did I ever tell you something?’ He said: ‘What?’ and I said: ‘I loved you the moment I met you.’ He started to cry, because he needed to cry. That was a true connection, and I hope these two stories explain it a bit.”
On career lows: “You have to understand my origins. I’m from a working-class family. We didn’t have a lot, but we had the arts. You’re talking to a guy who is making a living at doing what he loves doing — acting, singing and dancing. So any career ups and downs were not that significant to me, the only things that really powerfully impinged on me were my losses, and there were many in my life. Those had an impact, but short of that, movies — I love them, but they’re not life.”
[From The Guardian]
On one hand, I feel slightly terrible for John because he’s basically living a lie while going overboard on PDA with wife Kelly Preston in an effort to convince us that they’re totally happy together even though John regularly ducks away for sailing trips with the boys when he’s not slapping the ass of the nearest male masseuse. On the other hand, John has all the resources in the world to pull away from this cult, but he just doesn’t want to do it. So he’s content to live in his own little bubble forever, and to me, that seems like a wasted way to spend one’s life.
Now for absolutely no reason at all other than the fact that Travolta namedropped Marlon Brando, here are some photos of the acting legend in his younger years. Hey, we never get a chance to post photos of Brando looking hot, so enjoy!
Photos courtesy of WENN
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| | John Travolta Hosts Living Legends Of Aviation Awards | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Supporting efforts to educate children on aviation, John Travolta and Kelly Preston attended the Living Legends Of Aviation Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday (January 18).
The "Grease" star donned a black suit, blue dress shirt, and black tie while his lovely wife wore a navy blue sleeveless gown on the red carpet.
Hosted by the 58-year-old actor and pilot himself, the awards have honored Living Legends in the field such as Buzz Aldrin, Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Sully Sullenberger, and Kurt Russell.
Produced by the Kiddie Hawk Air Academy, the awards also support the non-profit organization dedicated to introducing, educating, and sparking children?s interest in aviation.
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