John and Ella Travolta wish Ben Travolta a happy birthday. The youngest of Travolta’s children turned 13 on November 23. Travolta (69) posted a sweet video to Stevie Wonder’s song “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” on Instagram. The video features pictures and videos of Ben over the years, including his dog Peanut. “I can’t believe my boy is a teenager now,” Saturday night fever the star wrote. “Ben turns 13 today. I love you my son!”
Ella, Ben and John Travolta.
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Ella, 23, also shared her birthday post on Instagram for her brother, with a picture of him when he was younger. “Happy birthday my dearest Benjamin, it seems like yesterday you were this young and now you’re 13!! I love you!❤️🎉,” Ella wrote in the caption of the post.
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John, Ben and Ella Travolta.
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Ben and Ella are Travolta’s children from his marriage to wife Kelly Preston, who died of breast cancer in 2020. Travolta has previously spoken about his grieving process.
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“I’ve learned that mourning someone, living through grief is very personal,” he said Esquire Mexico 2021 “Grief is personal and finding your own path is what could lead to healing. It’s different from someone else’s journey.” The couple also had a son, Jett, who died in 2009 at the age of 16. Travolta spoke about Ella and Ben’s life in recent years. Of Ben, he told PEOPLE in 2019, “He’s into gymnastics, tennis, fishing and the computer world, like all the kids.”
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John Travolta.
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Speaking about Ella, Travolta said: “She is her own person. She is graceful, generous, poised, graceful and beautiful. I don’t know how it came about and I don’t take any credit for it except that I adore it. And maybe that’s a valid contribution.”
Father and daughter have a close relationship, and Ella followed in her father’s footsteps by pursuing acting. She appeared in the movie 2021 Get lostas in 2009 Old dogs, in which Travolta starred opposite Robin Williams. Ella released her debut song “Dizzy” in 2022.
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Travolta is set to star in an upcoming movie musical and romantic comedy This is Love!, with Katherine Heigl. In the film, the two play an unusual couple who get to know each other. The film is a “real throwback” to the days of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, according to Diversity interview with director Nick Vallelongo. “John and Katherine are fantastic together, and during rehearsals they had so much chemistry,” he said.
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