Travolta Thrilled With Street Honour
By WENNSunday, November 22, 2009
JOHN TRAVOLTA has been honoured by his adopted Florida hometown - the community named a street after his daughter ELLA BLEU.
The Pulp Fiction star and his family paid tribute to the people of Ocala city for their support after the January (09) death of his 16-year-old son Jett, during an appearance at the Friday (20Nov09) premiere of their movie Old Dogs.
And Mayor Randy Ewers echoed his appreciation for the area’s most famous family, thanking Travolta and his actress wife Kelly Preston for their fundraising efforts and presenting nine-year-old Ella with a street sign from the newly dubbed Ella Bleu Way.
Travolta held back tears as he told the crowd of locals, “Kelly, Ella and I want to thank all of you for supporting us over the last year. It’s meant the world to us. We know that we have a community. We know that we have friends. And we know that we are loved. We appreciate it. Jett appreciates it. We love you, Ocala.”
The Travolta family appearance at the premiere and a gala later in the evening on Friday is estimated to have raised more than $37,500 (?23,430) for charity.
It’s one of the actor’s rare public appearances with his family since they lost Jett, who died after suffering a seizure during a family holiday in the Bahamas.
