I knew Olivia Newton-John, and she was exactly who you thought she was – and more

We thought of her as the ingenue – but the soft-spoken girl from Melbourne had a steel inside that she showed through action, never words.

In 2017, when Olivia Newton-John announced that her breast cancer had returned, the world was once again united in willing her to recovery.. My, how she loved dogs.She replied almost immediately: “More puppy pics, please!”

“Maudie’s friend defends her!” she suggested. She had met Miss Maudie a month earlier in Melbourne, when she insisted I bring my boisterous Staffy puppy to her hotel.“I don’t think I can bring a dog to a hotel,” I said. “I’ll sort it out,” Olivia replied. So to the hotel we went. But it was Sandy, of course, that she made immortal and that immortalised her in Hollywood history. I was Generation– or Gen X if you prefer – and at 10 years old was as swept away by the phenomenon of that film and soundtrack as everyone else. When Hugh Jackman confessed decades later that he’d had her poster on his bedroom wall as a kid, millions nodded in recognition. At her peak, she was one of the most famous women on the planet.

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