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Heartfelt tributes flooded in for the late Grease star (Picture: Channel Nine/Olivia Newton-John/Instagram) Thousands marked the occasion, which remembered the Grease star’s incredible career and ‘wonderful’ character. Dame Olivia was 73 when she The Australian singer’s loss was felt by her close family, which includes The beloved actor and singer died in August 2022 (Picture: Cole Bennetts/Getty Images) ‘The other half is with my mama,’ she said, ‘I know she’s holding it for me until we meet again.’ The memorial, which was hosted by David Campbell, also featured many tributes from celebrities who knew the star, from Pink to Sir Elton, and Parton. ‘She was such a wonderful force of nature, but she was funny, she was kind, she was warm, and she was talented, and every time we got together we laughed, and laughed, and laughed,’ he said. Country singer Parton recalled how she ‘had the honour’ of ‘I considered her a great friend as well as a fellow entertainer,’ she said, before directing her words to Dame Olivia herself. Sir Elton John and Dame Olivia went way back (Picture: Getty Images) ‘To quote one of your songs, “I honestly love you”,’ she added. ‘And thank you for shining your light on us.’ Actor Nicole Kidman had further kind words as she chatted about how the late star inspired her as a child. ‘I grew up with her, listening to her. I would perform her songs at school,’ she divulged. ‘I remember when I first saw Grease I was like, “I want to be Olivia Newton-John.”‘ Ju...

Olivia Newton-John’s daughter wants to pursue acting like her mother: Source Olivia Newton-John’s daughter Chloe Lattanzi has recently revealed she wanted to pursue acting in Hollywood just like her late famous mother. New Idea reported that Olivia’s daughter finished filming her debut movie, Deltopia while insiders revealed Chloe took up this project to cope with her mother’s death. The source mentioned that Chloe wanted to be successful as a movie actress, like her late mother who rose to fame with her classic 1978 movie, Grease. “Chloe's excited about this next step, but she's nervous,” shared one insider close to the production. The source continued, “This time, she won't have her mother around to reassure her.” “Chloe was incredible on the set, everyone loved her and she was so professional,” mentioned an insider. A source told the outlet, “She loves working as it keeps her mind off the sad stuff.” Meanwhile, Chloe’s debut movie is directed by Michael Easterling. The on-set insiders added, “Chloe is talented in her own right, though she relied on her co-stars to re-assure her throughout the filming.”

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Farewell, Grease. Disco show tunes with Gene Kelly and ELO in Xanadu. Heavy-breathing rock odes to sex like “Magic” and “Make a Move On Me.” These are all reasons why we loved Olivia Newton-John — we honestly loved her — and that’s why pop connoisseurs are mourning for her today. Olivia could hop from genre to genre, but she threw herself into every style with the same effervescent hyper-glitz enthusiasm, which is why she never sounded the least bit phony. Before fans invented the terminology of stars having “eras,” Olivia perfected the concept, because she hit every stop on the radio dial, from ingenue to Xanadu. Every fan’s got a favorite ONJ phase, but for me it’s the Seventies AM-radio soft-rock Olivia, when she kept finding new ways to get her heart broken on hit after hit. No happy songs for this lass. She was the star of the Mellow Era who actually had the gall to use the word “mellow” in a song title — her Number One therapy session, No other singer could get away with the over-the-top misery of “I Honestly Love You.” Olivia confesses her doomed crush on somebody she can never have, in her breathy whisper. She humiliates herself line by line, resigned to her heartbreak, refusing to even entertain the idea this notion might not be a total disaster. (She doesn’t even give her crush a chance to think about it.) “If we had both been born, in another place and time / This moment might have ended with a kiss”— the way her voice trembles on that line is always a punch in ...