Olivia Newton-John may now be a Dame, but if that means she is supposed to act the grand lady, she didn’t get the memo. The pop legend has spent her time in lockdown ankle-deep in horse manure, pottering in her garden or baking bread.
She laughs, telling me: “It’s been very grounding mucking out the horses.” Speaking from the sun-kissed study of her home in Santa Barbara, California, the 72-year-old singer and actress looks radiant, the low-key way of life clearly agreeing with her.
But the last few months have also been tinged with sadness. She says: “I’ve lost way too many friends to cancer. And in the last year I lost three or four women I knew.” Among them was her close friend actress Kelly Preston.
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