Grease - After They Were famous TV show
Great songs, romance and John Travolta strutting his stuff - Grease couldn’t fail. As ITV1 shows the film on Sunday, followed by an “After They Were Famous” special on Tuesday, David Hollingsworth finds out what happened to the cast…
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OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN (Sandy) Sandy and Danny looked perfect together. And Olivia Newton-John is happy to explain why. “John’s a lovely man,” she says.
Less lovely were Sandy’s sexy, but tight, Spandex trousers at the end of the film. “They literally had to sew me into them,” she admits. “I couldn’t drink a lot because I didn’t want to have to pee.”
After Grease, Olivia, now 54, starred in Xanadu (1980) and teamed up again with John Travolta in Two of a Kind (1983). At the same time, she switched from singing country music to pop. But in 1992, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a partial mastectomy. “I never thought, “Why me?” I’m so lucky to be here and I treasure every moment,” she says.
Now divorced from actor Matt Lattanzi, with whom she had a daughter, Chloe, the British born actress lives with cameraman Patrick McDermott in Malibu, California.