JOHN TRAVOLTA: ‘MY FIRST CHRISTMAS WITHOUT KELLY'

STILL GRIEVING FOR HIS BELOVED WIFE, THE GREASE STAR IS FOCUSING ON HIS KIDS

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – but for John Travolta, this festive season will be tinged with sadness. Five months after his beloved wife, Kelly Preston, lost her brave battle with breast cancer, sources tell New Idea that the grieving actor is going above and beyond to make Christmas Day extra special for their kids, Ella, 20, and Benjamin, 10.

“It’s going to be a tough time for all three of them,” explains a close family friend. “Kelly loved the holidays … She filled the house with so much laughter.”

Despite Kelly and John’s eldest son Jett, tragically dying of a seizure at age 16 during a Christmas family vacation to the Bahamas in January 2009, the devoted mother and wife always tried to make Christmas memorable.