New Idea - August 22, 2022

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WELCOME!
Growing up, Grease was on constant
replay in my house. In fact, my
Saying goodbye
younger sister and I gave my
to our Georgy
parents’ VHS tape such a work-out,
Girl, Judith
Durham. the cover became frayed like
a beloved, dog-eared book. Like
many, after hearing of Olivia
Newton-John’s death last week,
I went home and settled in for
a nostalgic night at Rydell High.
Watching Grease again, I couldn’t
help but laugh at just how many
jokes and innuendos went over my
head as a kid (which is probably a
good thing!). Yet one thing wasn’t lost
on young me: ONJ was luminous!
As we remember her bright light
(page 4), we also honour another
Aussie icon, who passed just before
ON THE Olivia, the Seekers’ Judith Durham
(page 20). Rest in peace, ladies.
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4 JOHN’S HEARTBREAK OVER
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN
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The pair
reprised their
roles for a
reunion in
2019 (right).
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John’s loving tribute
‘SHE WILL
ALWAYS BE
MY SANDY’
FROM DAY
loss more acutely than most.
Mere minutes after Olivia’s
ONE, HE WAS
death at age 73 was announced
HOPELESSLY last week, her grieving Grease
co-star John Travolta shared
DEVOTED TO
a heart-rending tribute to his
HIS GREASE “dearest” friend.
John – who played Danny
CO-STAR
Zuko opposite Olivia’s Sandy
hile the Olsson in the hit 1978 movie
entire – said, “You made all of our
world is lives so much better. Your
mourning impact was incredible. I love
the passing you so much. We will see you
of the iconic Olivia Newton- down the road and we will all
John, one man is feeling the be together again. Yours from
the moment I saw you and
forever! Your Danny,
your John.” from her
On August 8, breast to
following her 30-year her spine],
breast cancer journey, she was living on
Olivia passed away limited time. Even
peacefully at the still, nothing can really
Southern California prepare you for this.” often as she could. For John
ranch she shared All while knowing of her to lose Kelly and then Livvy
with husband John own diagnosis, in 2020 Olivia – the two women he loved
Easterling. The supported John through his most in the world – within
legendary entertainer own breast cancer nightmare, two years is unfathomable.”
was surrounded by
loved ones, including ‘JOHN IS CRUSHED … NOTHING
her 36-year-old
daughter Chloe Lattanzi. CAN PREPARE YOU FOR THIS’
“John is crushed,”
shares a close friend, when he lost his wife Kelly John supported Olivia
speaking exclusively to Preston to the disease when through her first cancer battle
New Idea. “Olivia was she was 57. in 1992 after she learnt of her
candid about the fact “John wouldn’t have coped diagnosis in the same week
that once her cancer had without Olivia,” says our her father, Bryn, passed away
metastasized [in 2017, source. “She called him as from the disease. He was there
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John tragically
lost both his
leading ladies to
again when it returned in
breast cancer –
2013. Around this time, Olivia
wife Kelly Preston
sadly lost her older sister succumbed to the
Rona to cancer. illness in 2020.
Sources say John also
offered a supportive shoulder
when Olivia’s boyfriend Patrick
McDermott mysteriously
vanished from a fishing boat
in Los Angeles in 2005.
Olivia and John’s lifelong chemistry, the pair never
friendship was cemented become romantically involved “one of the highlights
John and Olivia
after being unexpectedly as they were dating other of our lives”.
performed at the
catapulted to fame in Grease. people at the time. However, “At that stage they both Sydney 2000 Olympics.
“There [was] only one co-star Didi Conn, who played probably knew it was their
person in the world that was Frenchy in Grease, insists last performance together,”
speculates the insider. “So
‘EVERY GUY WANTED HER AS THEIR it’s no wonder they gave it
everything they had.”
GIRLFRIEND, I FELT THE SAME’
Sources say John and
Olivia managed to chat
Sandy, and that was Olivia John had a huge crush on in her final days, with one
Newton-John,” John once his leading lady. insider saying, “Olivia has
told Entertainment Tonight. Drawn to each other, Olivia always been worried about
In fact, John says he told and John teamed up again in her daughter Chloe. If I
Grease producers they must 1983’s Two of a Kind. In 2019, know John, he would have
cast the Aussie bombshell they reunited in full Danny promised to look out for
because “every guy in the and Sandy garb in Florida Chloe, just like Olivia did
world wants Olivia Newton- to sing their duet ‘You’re the with [his daughter] Ella
John as their girlfriend. And One That I Want’. when her mum died.
I knew that because I wanted At the time, Olivia revealed “Olivia would’ve found
that … I felt the same way.” she “couldn’t stop laughing”, peace from that.”
Despite their obvious while John said that it was By Karleigh Smith
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The besties
shared
everything for
almost 60
years.
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FRIENDSHIP
Ever since the first glimmer “She’s my dearest friend, after eight years in business.
of Olivia’s talent began to we’ve been friends for 54 “We expanded too fast,”
emerge, Pat Farrar (nee Carroll) years now,” Pat said in an Olivia rued at the time. “It
has been by her side. interview with Sunday Night was depressing, but you can’t
After winning talent shows in 2018, just after Olivia’s dwell on the past.”
in Australia as teenagers, the third and final cancer diagnosis During Pat’s Sunday Night
bright-eyed singing wannabes was made public. interview, she spoke of her
found themselves in Olivia’s “She is just a wonderful girl awe for Olivia – something
native England. A firm duet and is there for me always,” New Idea understands continued
both on and off the stage began she added. until her final days.
– and it lasted a lifetime. The two women faced the “Her first [diagnosis] was
Pat, now in her 70s and best and worst of times together. a shock for all of us but she
living in Malibu, has been left In 1983, they launched their handled it with so much dignity
absolutely devastated over joint pet project Koala Blue, and was always so positive …
the loss of Olivia, after being a US-based chain of Aussie- always more worried about
one of her closest confidantes
since the 1960s.
john farnham
knew it at the time.
“I feel like I’ve known [John]
most of my life, on-and-off … and
I’ve always been a huge fan of
his,” Olivia gushed in a 2015
interview. “I think he’s the most
And Olivia’s friendship amazing singer, one of my
favourite singers of all time, for
sure. We have fun together and
our voices go well together.”
The love and respect was and a loyal
mutual. A heartbroken John,
73, was shattered to learn be greatly
of his dear friend’s death last missed.”
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Sweet or sexy
– Olivia could
do it all and
conquered
the world.
shows Time for Terry and “We were young girls. Australia and the UK.
THE GIRL
The Happy Show, where she We were having a blast,” Olivia also found herself
FROM
was affectionately dubbed Olivia explained. “We were a regular on Sir Cliff Richard’s
“Lovely Livvy”. in London, in Carnaby Street weekly show. The pair quickly
MELBOURNE
The turning point in in the Beatles days. Can you became lifelong friends.
WAS THE Olivia’s career came with her imagine? It was fantastic.” “She sang and everybody
appearance on The Go!! Show. By 1971, Olivia decided loved her,” Cliff recalled.
ONE THAT
Here, she met future duet to go solo and had her “In the end, she stayed and
WE WANTED partner Pat Carroll, as well first international did eight shows. I could
as the producer and songwriter hit with the Bob not get rid of this woman!
he smile that says of her many hits, John Farrar. Dylan-penned I didn’t want to.”
‘hello, it’s good to John and Pat would go on to ‘If Not For You’. Olivia won her first
see you’, any time marry and remain Olivia’s Her follow-up Grammy for the country-
I turn around to friends for life. single, the sounding ‘Let Me Be There’.
find you there.” In 1965, Olivia won a talent addictive She scored two more for
This lyric from Olivia’s contest on Sing Sing Sing, ‘Banks of the Peter Allen-penned
1974 hit ‘If You Love Me, Let hosted by Johnny O’Keefe. the Ohio’, song, ‘I Honestly Love
Me Know’ instantly conjures The prize was a trip to Great was a Top You’, which was
the genuine warmth of the Britain. Olivia was reluctant 10 hit in followed by a barrage
much-loved superstar. How to go as she wanted to stay of hit songs, from
we cherished her, and how with her boyfriend, entertainer ‘Have You Never Been
Olivia came
her beautiful smile and voice Ian Turpie. Mellow’ to ‘Sam’.
fourth in
enchanted us all. Thankfully, at her mother’s Eurovision At the urging of
Born in England in 1948 insistence, Olivia headed in 1974, fellow Aussie Helen
to Irene and Brinley Newton- off to England. Pat followed with ABBA Reddy, who had
winning.
John, Olivia moved with her shortly after, and the pair paved the way
family to Melbourne in 1954. formed a duo act and for Australian singers
By the time she was 14, the enjoyed moderate success to crack America,
sweet-voiced schoolgirl was on the club circuits of Olivia made the move
a regular on local television Britain and Europe. to the United States –
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Helen Reddy
(top) and Cliff
Richard
(below) were
a big support.
the heartland of
the world’s music
industry.
Soon after,
Hollywood
came calling,
and Olivia
appeared in
the 1978
big screen
adaptation
of the Broadway
musical Grease.
Aged 28 at the
time, Olivia initially
thought she was too old to
play a high school senior. Yet
the film’s leading man John
Travolta persuaded her to
sign on and the rest is history.
Musical fantasy film Xanadu
came next. It wasn’t very
successful, but the soundtrack
became another multi-
platinum hit for Our Livvy.
This was followed by the
controversial, image-changing
‘Physical’ music video, which
had the world suddenly
wearing Lycra, headbands
and leg warmers, and heading
to the gym in droves.
It’s safe to say Olivia
transcended music and
showbusiness. Her ceaseless
advocacy for research into
cancer has saved thousands
of lives. In 2020, for her
services to charity, cancer
research and entertainment,
she was honoured with
a damehood.
The Olivia Newton-John
Cancer Wellness & Research
Centre in Melbourne, founded
by the star in 2012, will also
ensure her legacy lives on.
By Glen Williams
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OliviaNewton- Joh n
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Olivia stayed
good friends
with Ian.
Olivia and John wed
in 2008 – after she
proposed to him!
A TWIST OF “I always tell my friends
you’re never too old to find
FATE LED
love,” she said in 2016. “I found after
TO OLIVIA’S the love of my life at 59 going
on 60! I’m grateful.”
GREATEST
Olivia says she “wasn’t
Olivia met Matt
HAPPINESS expecting to fall in love” when when she was
she reconnected with John 31 and he was
t took Olivia almost Easterling 15 years ago. A just 20.
60 years to find her little over 12 months earlier,
soulmate, after a her on-off partner of nine
rollercoaster personal years, Patrick McDermott, had
life that included divorce, disappeared under mysterious
heartache and a boyfriend circumstances during a boat
who went missing, sparking trip in June 2005.
rumours he had faked his Olivia and John’s romance
own death. was a slow burn, with the
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