BREAKING: Entertainment icon Olivia Newton-John has died at 73. The Australian singer and actress, who shot to fame in the 1978 film Grease, passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California, surrounded by family and friends. 9News DETAILS:
After surviving cancer in 1992 and again in 2013, it returned in 2017 and on August 9, 2022, the Grammy-award winning singer lost her battle with spinal cancer.
Synonymous with the film is the spandex pants and off-the-shoulder top Newton John wears in the movie's final scenes, still inspiring fashionistas four generations later. It was also a role that very nearly didn't happen. "For me it's about the music. If it's a great song then it's going to sell itself anyway," Newton-John told Fox News in 2016.
"I'm very lucky I have a wonderful, beautiful husband who is just so loving and fantastic. I always tell my friends you're never too old to find love," Newton-John told People magazine in 2016.The first time was breast cancer in 1992, the same weekend her father had passed away from cancer himself. In 2013, Newton-John revealed the disease was back, this time in her shoulder, and in 2017 it returned in the base of her spine.
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