John Travolta celebrates Thanksgiving with children Ella and Ben

John Travolta celebrates Thanksgiving with children Ella and Ben

John Travolta is thankful this holiday season.

The pulp Fiction The actor shared a photo on Instagram of him and his children Ella and Benjamin celebrating Thanksgiving together on Friday, November 29th.

“I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!” John, 70, captioned the post, which showed the trio posing around a table. “We love you! And we always appreciate your support!” he added, calling out to his followers.

The Fat The actor shares Ella, 24, and Ben, 14, with his late wife Kelly Preston, who died of breast cancer in 2020. The two also share son Jett, who died in 2009 at the age of 16.

John supports his children and constantly celebrates their successes on social media, such as when he posted about Ella’s film role Get out in 2021, he wrote, “I am a very proud father!” at the time. His son Ben, on the other hand, is enthusiastic about parkour training and enthusiastically shares news about it.

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Ella told PEOPLE in October about her father’s support as she began writing music during the pandemic: “At the beginning of the pandemic, I had a bunch of little voice memos on my phone with snippets of songs that I made up or melodies. ” she said. “I play the ukulele and write a lot about the ukulele, including little ukulele songs.”

When he showed John her original music, he responded enthusiastically, Ella said.

“He was like, ‘Oh, wow, you should really finish these songs. You should finish these songs and then you could record demos of them or something,'” she recalls, adding that his father’s enthusiasm “definitely played a big role in making me want to get more into it.”

Ben, John and Ella Travolta.

John Travolta/Instagram


Ella also trusts John’s advice when it comes to the music industry. “The best advice I’ve ever gotten is obviously from him, but he also really leaves it up to me, which I really appreciate,” she said. “He trusts me and my instincts a lot.”

She released her debut EP Colors of love on November 8th.

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