OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN TRIBUTE - Fox News (August 8, 2022)
Olivia Newton-John Tribute - Fox News (August 8, 2022)
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00:00It's a report breaking just moments ago we have received word that Olivia Newton-John
00:05has died. The singer and actress best known for starring with John Travolta in Greece
00:11and her hit songs, one of the biggest hits of the 80s, physical, spent 10 weeks at number one. Also
00:18Xanadu, there she is with Marie Osmond and with John Travolta. A post on her Facebook page says
00:24that Olivia Newton-John died peacefully at her ranch in Southern California after battling
00:30breast cancer for 30 years. She leaves behind her husband, her daughter Chloe and other members of
00:36her family. Olivia Newton-John was 73 years old, put up that brave, brave battle against breast
00:43cancer, several times went into remission and then to receive a diagnosis again. She was a bright
00:50light in the 80s and 90s and throughout her career. We want to bring in Geraldo Rivera,
00:55who worked with her over the years and joins us by phone. Hi Geraldo.
01:00Hi Martha, too bad, too bad. She was so wonderful and exuberant and lively and
01:08encompassing. She really brought people together, made people smile. We were together in The
01:14Apprentice. It was back in 2015. It was Donald Trump's last season and she was the entertainment.
01:22She was a big hit. Everybody loved her and when you just saw her, it was so life affirming. She
01:31was so inclusive in so many ways and so optimistic, despite the fact that she did, as you mentioned,
01:38have this awful fight with the menace that so many people fear, the breast cancer. It was just,
01:46it was awful that that vector hung over her, but she didn't let it affect
01:50the way she, you know, interacted with people. Yeah, she was only 73 years old and
01:57lived a very big life, but too young to be lost to all of her fans. There she is smiling with
02:05John Travolta. Look at them, look at the two of them, Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in
02:08Greece, just, you know, at the early heights of their career. This was a huge breakthrough movie
02:13for her in 1978. She played the role of Sandy, who's, you know, sort of the good girl, falls in
02:18love with John Travolta's character and, you know, then she comes out in those leather pants and,
02:24you know, just like, just such a memorable movie moment, I think, to all of us who grew up during
02:29that time, Geraldo. Absolutely. And, you know, she was so, in terms of, you know, the sweetness,
02:37the Sandy persona, she really projected that, you know, as few others could have done. It was so,
02:45her innocence, you know, her relative reclusive life or regimented life, and then all of a sudden
02:55she meets John Travolta, the rebel. They connect with song and dance in a way that is, you know,
03:03so entertaining and everybody's smiling. And there she controlled, it was really a very, you know,
03:11women power, she, you know, demonstrated. It was really, it was a great, great, and, you know,
03:18I grew up in the Greek era, so to have that nostalgia, to have she and Travolta play it
03:26again, bring it back again, was strictly a lot of fun. Yes, huge hit songs from that movie,
03:31You're the One That I Want, Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted to You. She, I mean, those
03:36were songs that she sang for the rest of her career, when she made appearances, which she
03:42did a lot of, and she was, you know, such a, just such a strong, vibrant character from that era,
03:47and obviously cut her life cut short way too soon at 73, after just a vicious battle
03:54with recurrent breast cancer. Geraldo, thank you very much, Geraldo. My pleasure.
03:59Appeared with her on The Apprentice and got to know her quite well.