John Travolta has shared a heartbreaking birthday tribute to his late wife Kelly Preston…
The title he gave Kelly has left fans feeling extremely emotional.
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Everyone knows John Travolta for his suave character Danny in the musical romantic comedy, Grease.
But many don’t really know much about his personal life…
Back in April, the Grease actor celebrated his daughter Elle’s twenty-second birthday…
Ella could be seen sitting opposite her dad in the clip…
The pair were surrounded by cakes, finger sandwiches, and sweet pastries, and were both enjoying a classic cup of tea… I mean that’s pretty much essential when you’re in England.
Travolta captioned the post: “Happy birthday my dearest Ella! I love you so much.
“We’re here in England having afternoon tea to celebrate and I’m also here to shoot a short film called, ‘The Shepherd‘ based on a book by Frederick Forsyth that I’ve always loved.”
Many fans commented on the post and shared their birthday wishes for Ella.
One Instagram user wrote: “Happy Birthday Ella!! Enjoy your stay here. Can’t wait to see the film.”
While another commented: “Happy birthday to lovely Ella, who is a spitting image of you, but in a delicate feminine way. Love you all.”
The father-daughter duo have always had a very close bond, seemingly made stronger by the tragic death of Travolta’s wife and Ella’s mother, Kelly Preston, in 2020.
Back in 2019, Travolta gushed about his daughter, telling People: “She is her own person. She is gracious, generous, poised, graceful and gorgeous,” he said. “I don’t know how she came to be, and I don’t take any credit other than just adoring her, and maybe that’s a valid contribution.”
In February, Ella also posted a tribute to her dad for his sixty-eighth birthday…
She captioned the post: “Happy Birthday to my role model, my best friend, the person who has taught me one of the most valuable lessons in life, kindness. I love you with all my heart, Daddy.”
Since then, the actor has taken to Instagram to post a heartbreaking tribute to his late wife on her birthday.
But where did the couple’s love story brew from?
Well, the famous duo, met in 1987 while filming their first collaborative feature The Experts, and got married 4 years later, in 1991.
Of course, his wife later stated that they did not hook up at first, since she was already married to fellow actor Kevin Gage; however, she said, she was “really with the wrong person.”
Eventually, they both fell madly in love, had 3 children, one of whom tragically died in 2009, at the age of seventeen, and remained together for twenty-nine years.
Kelly told her husband in a tribute on what would be their final wedding anniversary: “You have given me hope when I have felt lost, loved me patiently and unconditionally… made me laugh harder than any other human being possible … shared the most beautiful highs and at times lows.”
In 2020, Kelly died of breast cancer at the age of fifty-seven.
And now, on what would have been Kelly’s sixtieth birthday, Travolta made an emotional Instagram tribute to his late wife.
“Happy birthday to my favorite dance partner! We love you and miss you, Kelly,” Travolta wrote.
You can see the post here.