Regardless of how cynical you are, you have to admit that John Travolta has had the mother of crappy years.
His 16-year-old son died last year. Then last week his two dogs were killed in a freak accident involving an airport service vehicle. And, less relevantly, his hair is starting to look less and less convincing. Essentially John Travolta has had a year so unimaginably harrowing that you genuinely wouldn’t wish it on your worst enemy. But a glimmer of a silver lining has appeared in the form of the unborn baby that’s currently living in his wife Kelly Preston‘s womb.
Yes, he might be 56 and his wife might be 47, but John Travolta and Kelly Preston have announced that they’re expecting a new baby. We can’t wait until it’s born and starts speaking in the voice of Bruce Willis, just like in that old John Travolta documentary Look Who’s Talking.
John Travolta may have made one bad film after another for the last decade, and he may be a fully paid-up member of one of the world’s stupidest religions, and he may possibly have to keep his haircut on with some meshing and a Pritt Stick, but that doesn’t mean that he’s impervious to emotional anguish.
Last year, for example, John Travolta’s 16-year-old son Jett died of a seizure in the Bahamas. It was something that we only briefly touched on at the time, because we couldn’t really think of any appropriate jokes about dead children, but needless to say that the death – combined with the long enquiry over the death – must have been impossibly sad for John Travolta and his family.
But it’s time to start putting some of that sadness to one side, because John Travolta and Kelly Preston have just announced that they’re expecting another baby. The New York Daily News reports:
John Travolta and Kelly Preston, whose son died a year ago from a seizure, said Tuesday night they “are expecting a new addition to our family… It’s impossible to keep a secret … especially one as wonderful as this. We are expecting a new addition to our family,” the “Pulp Fiction” star and his wife wrote on their Web site.
It’s wonderful news. Obviously the new baby will never be a replacement for Jett, but its arrival should help to ease the misery of the last year. Now all John Travolta has to do is make some better films, realise that he believes in something that’s quite clearly nonsense and buy a more convincing wig and he’ll be completely right as rain again. Babysteps first, though.
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