(First Published On August 8th 2022) (Edited On August 30th 2022) ONJ's Acting Credits Include 1980's Xanadu And 1978's Grease Along Side John Travolta

The English born Welsh-German actress, singer, and songwriter Dame Olivia Newton John (Known to many as ONJ) has died at the age of 73, after loosing her battle with Breast Cancer.

First starting her career in music following her parents moving to Australia in the early 1950s as a rival to Dolly Parton, ONJ soon began working in Hollywood where she'd land the rolls in two musicals: 1978's Grease costarring John Travolta, and 1980's Xanadu with Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, and her future first husband Matt Lattanzi.

By 1981, she began embracing the new wave genre and released her popular yet controversial single Physical that same year.

Physical hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late November of 1981, and was named Song of the Year during the 1982 Grammy Awards.

However it has recently been ridiculed by Fat Acceptance campaigners, who call the depiction of obese people in the song's MTV music video: "Unrealistic and derogatory".

Though ONJ had beaten her first diagnosis of Breast Cancer in 1992, she revealed it had come back with a vengeance in May of 2017.

Between 1992 and 2022, ONJ donated millions towards cancer research in the UK, US, Germany, and Australia.

In 2019, the spandex and leather jacket worn by ONJ in Grease was sold for AU$405,000 (£398,000) during a cancer charity auction.

In June of 2020 during the Covid-19 Pandemic and lockdown, Queen Elizabeth II honoured ONJ with a Damehood for her dedication to charity, cancer research, and entertainment. 

Following the starlet's passing, former Grease costar John Travolta tweeted that: "She made all our lives so much better", with Stockard Channing issuing a statement reading: "Olivia was the essence of summer.

Her sunniness, her warmth, and her grace would always come to mind when I thought of her.

I never knew a more lovelier human being".

Dame Olivia Newton John passed away in her California home surrounded by friends and family, in accordance with her will all funds from her estate are to be donated to cancer research.