{"id":316142,"date":"2026-04-10T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=316142"},"modified":"2026-04-10T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:54:57","slug":"john-travolta-praises-daughter-ella-after-red-carpet-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/john-travolta-praises-daughter-ella-after-red-carpet-event\/","title":{"rendered":"John Travolta Praises Daughter Ella After Red Carpet Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>John Travolta<\/strong> celebrated his 26-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu \u2014 whom he shared with the late <strong>Kelly Preston<\/strong> \u2014 after she walked the red carpet at an event.<\/p>\n<p>Travolta, 72, took to Instagram on Wednesday, April 8, to gush over Ella Bleu attending the Fashion Trust U.S. Awards in Los Angeles, writing, \u201cSo pleased with my baby girl@ella.bleu on the 2026 fashion US awards pink carpet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor also announced that Ella Bleu can be in his upcoming directorial debut, <em>Propeller One-Way Night Coach<\/em>. Ella Bleu, for her part, previously gave her father a shout-out after the film was confirmed to be premiering on the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo very honored and excited. Thanks @festivaldecannes \u2764\ufe0f incredibly pleased with you and this film, @johntravolta \ud83d\ude4f,\u201d Ella Bleu captioned a post on Wednesday, which included a black-and-white photo of Travolta sitting within the director\u2019s chair on the set of the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Ella, Preston and Travolta also shared son Benjamin, 15, and son Jett, who died at age 16 while on vacation together with his family in 2009. Preston died at age 57 in 2020, two years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many,\u201d Travolta wrote via Instagram while announcing Preston\u2019s death. \u201cForgive me prematurely should you don\u2019t hear from us for some time. But please know that I&#8217;ll feel your outpouring of affection within the weeks and months ahead as we heal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A source told Us Weekly on the time that Preston was \u201cthe guts and soul who kept the family united\u201d and that she and John were \u201ctrue partners.\u201d Travolta has continued to rejoice Preston\u2019s memory on her birthday and Mother\u2019s Day within the years since.<\/p>\n<p>Travolta later opened up in regards to the candid conversations he\u2019s had with son Benjamin about loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBen, you mostly love the reality and I\u2019m going to let you know the reality about life. No person knows once they\u2019re gonna go or once they\u2019re going to remain,\u201d Travolta told Kevin Hart during an interview in 2021. \u201cYour brother [Jett] left at 16. Too young. Your mother left at 57. That was too young. But who\u2019s to say? I could die tomorrow. You may. Anybody can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSo, let\u2019s take a look at it prefer it\u2019s a part of life. You don\u2019t know exactly. You only do your best at attempting to live the longest you possibly can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ella Bleu, meanwhile, honored her mother together with her debut EP, <em>Colours of Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201c[My mother\u2019s death has] definitely been something that I had wanted to speak and had been interested by, obviously, for a few years,\u201d she shared on Today in November 2024. \u201cI feel it\u2019s different for everybody, going through loss. But for me, personally, it was just this pure message that I wanted to offer to my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her music video featured home videos of herself and Preston. \u201cThere was a whole lot of crying, but they were completely happy tears,\u201d she said about compiling the footage. \u201cAnd I wanted it to be a celebration too of her life, \u2019cause it\u2019s all those best, most completely happy moments. And that\u2019s how I remember her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite how emotional the experience was for Ella, she was completely happy to have her dad\u2019s support as a producer on the project. \u201cI like working with my dad. If I could all the time do it, I&#8217;d,\u201d she added on the time. \u201cHe\u2019s amazing and he\u2019s so protective because he\u2019s been within the movie industry and the music industry ceaselessly, so he knows find out how to protect me in that sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Travolta celebrated his 26-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu \u2014 whom he shared with the late Kelly Preston \u2014 after she walked the red carpet at an event. 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