John Travolta's Daughter Honors His & Kelly Preston's Anniversary In Sweet Video
John Travolta's Daughter Honors His & Kelly Preston's Anniversary In Sweet Video
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00:00 John Travolta's daughter is honoring her late mother on a special occasion.
00:04 On Tuesday, the actor shared an Instagram video of his and Kelly Preston's 23-year-old
00:09 daughter Ella Blue posing in a beautiful floral midi dress and heels, while the song "The
00:15 Shadow of Your Smile" played over the clip.
00:18 Our baby girl Ella in celebration of Kelly's and my wedding anniversary.
00:21 "I'm so proud of you.
00:23 I know mama would be too."
00:25 John captioned the sweet post.
00:27 Ella simply commented on the video, "I love you both so much" with a red heart emoji.
00:32 The Pulp Fiction actor and Kelly tied the knot in 1991 after meeting at a screen test
00:37 for their 1989 comedy, The Experts.
00:41 It seems the couple was so in love that they got married twice, with their first wedding
00:45 taking place in Paris, France, while their second ceremony commenced in Daytona Beach,
00:50 Florida.
00:51 John and Kelly also shared 12-year-old son Benjamin and their late son, Jett, who died
00:56 in January 2009 at 16 years old after suffering from a seizure.
01:02 The twins' actress passed away in 2020 after a private battle with breast cancer.
01:07 She was 57 years old, and John has remained a dedicated father to their children since
01:12 the devastating loss.
01:13 In June, Ella paid a heartfelt Father's Day tribute to John with a photo of the two of
01:18 them alongside Benjamin, writing in her caption, "Happy Father's Day, Daddy.
01:24 Thank you for being the best father and for all of the love and light you bring to the
01:27 world.
01:28 I love you to the moon and back."
01:30 AXS Hollywood chatted with Ella back in February, and she revealed the advice her dad has given
01:34 to her when it comes to dating.
01:36 "I want to ask you this.
01:37 First of all, let's get this out of the way.
01:39 What was it like growing up with famous celebrity parents and when did you know that they were
01:44 famous?"
01:45 "I mean, that's a good question.
01:46 I think that I always knew that there was something different or something special just
01:53 from people coming up to them and everything like that.
01:56 And also, I grew up going on set.
01:57 So that sort of planted that inkling for me of what I wanted to do and that I wanted to
02:01 be an actress or a singer or to do all of that.
02:05 So I think from a very young age, I sort of knew that that was the family trade and I
02:10 was excited to be a part of that from when I was little."
02:13 "That's awesome.
02:14 I got a little side story I got to share about your dad, John.
02:18 Today we did the Brooklyn interview, and afterwards I went to my car.
02:22 I was at my car.
02:23 Guess who starts walking up behind me?
02:25 John Travolta.
02:26 I don't know if he told you this story yet."
02:27 "He said he met you, yeah."
02:28 "That was me.
02:29 I was by my car and I was with my friend.
02:31 I was like, 'Don't turn around,' but John Travolta was walking this way.
02:35 He was like, 'John Travolta?'
02:36 I said, 'Yeah, he's walking this way.'
02:37 He came over.
02:38 I was like, 'Hey, John, nice to meet you.
02:39 How many of you are your daughter?'
02:40 He was like, I totally threw him off guard.
02:41 I was like, 'What?'"
02:42 "That's so funny."
02:43 "Because he was asking for directions.
02:44 And I was like, 'This is my first time meeting John.
02:49 Totally cool, totally cool guy.'
02:51 And we walked him to where he was.
02:52 I was like, 'Man, that's got to be so cool having a dad that's cool.
02:55 He wasn't having a bunch of people with him, an entourage.
02:58 He was just, 'Hey, I'm John.'"
03:00 "No, he's the sweetest man.
03:02 That's awesome.
03:03 That's a great story."
03:04 "I'm going to share that.
03:05 I text my mom and she laughed."
03:06 "Oh, that's great.
03:07 Well, mom's approval.
03:08 That's perfect."
03:09 "So, Ellen, this business, right, it's such a hard business to get in.
03:12 What kind of advice did your pops give you about getting into this business?"
03:16 "That's a good question.
03:19 I think just really sticking true to yourself and knowing that everyone's going to have
03:25 a lot of opinions.
03:26 Everyone's going to have an idea of what they think you should do and how they think that
03:30 you should do it.
03:31 But you really got to have confidence in yourself and your own ideas and your own thoughts of
03:39 how you want to portray yourself and how you want to have a career and really make your
03:46 life.
03:47 I think that just sticking true to that and not letting – definitely take the advice
03:51 of other people, but not letting that influence you in a bad way or make you feel like you
03:56 can't do it.
03:57 So, just really stick true to knowing that you can do it and that your ideas and that
04:02 your opinions are also correct and also valid.
04:05 I don't know if that makes sense."
04:06 "No, it definitely makes sense.
04:07 That's positive input.
04:08 I like that.
04:09 Positive affirmations.
04:10 Always speak up for yourself because sometimes in this business, people can get discouraged
04:14 or even parents can be like, 'Have you ever had a time where he was ever discouraging
04:19 you from doing it or were you always like, 'This is what I want to do.'"
04:24 "Even for anything that I've been offered or going to do or thinking about if I should
04:31 do or should not do, whether a movie or anything like that, he's always given his advice or
04:37 his idea, but let it ultimately be up to me and said, 'But what do you think or what
04:43 do you think that you should do or how do you feel about it?'
04:46 So it's always been ultimately my choice, which I think is very important because you
04:51 can take everyone else's advice, but then you have to make sure that it's really coming
04:55 from you and what you want to do."
04:57 "Last question.
04:58 I got to ask you this.
04:59 Ask him how he wants to know this.
05:01 Best dating or relationship advice Pops has ever given you.
05:06 Last question."
05:07 "That my dad has ever given me."
05:09 "That he's ever given you, Ella.
05:13 I don't know.
05:14 He seemed like he could be a teddy bear, but with the ball here, he can be kind of tough."
05:17 "He has great advice on everything.
05:18 I'm trying to think of the best one.
05:20 I think in general, just really, if you're going on a first date or you're meeting someone
05:29 for the first time, just making sure to really be yourself and don't give any false pretenses
05:35 of like, you know, a lot of people will go on a date and they'll be like, 'Oh my God,
05:38 I love baseball,' or 'I love this, I love that,' and they really don't because they're
05:42 trying to just match what the other person likes.
05:46 And then later they're like, 'What?
05:47 You don't really like baseball?' or something like that.
05:49 So just really be yourself and make sure that, obviously, you put your best foot forward,
05:52 but you're really just being you because if that person likes you for you, then you're
05:58 fine.
05:59 And you like them for them, then you're set."
06:00 "Ella, that's some great advice."
06:01 "Thank you."
06:02 "I like that advice.
06:03 Let's stick with it."
06:04 "I stole it."
06:05 "Great."
06:05 "I stole it."
06:06 "I stole it."