In April 2024, a sequence of blog posts and clips about John Travolta and his daughter, Ella Bleu Travolta, started surfacing throughout social media and on various websites, accompanied by the headline, “At 24, John Travolta’s Daughter Lastly Confirms What We Thought All Alongside.”
These posts, together with TikToks and YouTube movies, made an opaque assertion hinted at within the headline with out saying what it was about or sharing proof to again it up.
For instance, one 30-minute video shared to YouTube by the channel The Ultimate Expedition promised to disclose the daughter’s revelation about her 70-year-old father:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL0egTYVR48
With out naming a supply for its info, the narrator claimed originally of the video:
“In an announcement that has despatched shockwaves by the leisure world, she’s confirmed what we have all been pondering. In immediately’s video, we’ll dive deep into the small print of John Travolta’s daughter’s revelation.”
As of this writing, that YouTube video had garnered greater than 363,000 views since its add on April 10, 2024. Equally, several TikTok movies with the identical declare collectively gained hundreds of views, and posts on Facebook additionally unfold the declare by linking to such movies.
The video delved into Travolta’s backstory and profession trajectory earlier than returning to his household, relating his eldest son Jett, and spouse, actress Kelly Preston, who died of breast most cancers in 2020. Towards the tip of the YouTube video, the narrator claimed that Ella Bleu Travolta, who has adopted the acting and performing path of her well-known mother and father, “attests to her father’s unwavering spirit and enduring power,” referred to her dad as “her hero and essentially the most unimaginable father, pal and position mannequin anybody may ask for,” and stated “working along with her dad is all the time a blast.”
Throughout the movies shared throughout the web, there was no revelation to assist the assertion that “John Travolta’s daughter lastly confirms what we thought all alongside.” If there was some new piece of showing info shared concerning the “Saturday Night Fever” icon that got here from his daughter, respected leisure media shops would have interviewed events concerned and documented the ordeal. That had not occurred.
Briefly, the unfounded assertion seemed to be made up for the aim of gaining clicks, or views, on-line. A disclaimer on the backside of 1 YouTube video shared on the channel Golden Rewind acknowledged:
The content material of our movies is supplied for leisure functions solely. It could embody factual components, hypothesis, rumours, and fictional content material. No portion of the content material ought to be thought-about correct or relied upon as reality. Viewers mustn’t interpret any a part of the content material as factual or definitive info. Please get pleasure from responsibly.
Even supposing the video’s underlying declare revealed nothing new, the video concerning the daughter’s revelation about her father may appear revealing and newsworthy as a result of it covers his youth, household, profession successes and private setbacks. With that combination of true info coupled with emotionally charged language and dramatic background music, such movies with baseless movie star rumors typically generate a whole bunch, or hundreds, of feedback from YouTube customers. A few of these messages point out that folks interpret the movies to be actual information.
Nonetheless, somewhat than eagerly anticipating controversial revelations about John Travolta and his household, lots of the reactions to the movies had been supportive, with followers writing such feedback as, “Travolta is an Icon, a expertise far past most. He is as versatile as any nice actor may be…I am a endlessly fan,” and, “He’s a hero to his kids, his departed spouse and youngster and in a roundabout way to all of us.”
The posts started surfacing round what would have been Travolta’s eldest son Jett’s thirty second birthday in early April. Ella Bleu Travolta’s older brother, Jett, who had a historical past of seizures, died in 2009 on the age of 16 after he fatally hit his head on a tub whereas on a household trip within the Bahamas.
On April 13, she shared her most up-to-date Instagram put up on the time of writing, a birthday dedication honoring Jett, by which she posted a photograph of the 2 siblings once they had been younger, together with the caption, “Blissful Birthday, Jetty. I really like you all the time.”
(ella.bleu/Instagram)
This was not the primary deceptive revelation associated to John Travolta that captured social media customers’ consideration. For instance, we beforehand debunked the false claims that he had a new wife less than a year after Preston’s death, an assertion that originated from a web site referred to as MissPennyStocks.com, and that he had died as a part of one more celebrity death hoax.
