John Travolta and daughter Ella recreate famous Grease dance scene for Super Bowl commercial
John Travolta has teamed up with his daughter Ella to recreate a famous dance scene from Grease for a Super Bowl commercial.
The 66-year-old actor and his 20-year-old daughter were featured in the star-studded commercial for Scotts Miracle-Gro doing their own version of the hand jive.
John famously performed the dance in a scene from his iconic 1978 movei Grease, alongside Olivia Newton John.
Iconic: John Travolta has teamed up with his daughter Ella to recreate a famous dance scene from Grease for a Super Bowl commercial
Dance off: Olivia Newton-John as Sandy and John as Danny Zuko dance to Born To Hand Jive during a dance scene from the 1978 film Grease
The new dance saw him team up with Ella, 20, his daughter with late wife Kelly Preston, as they advertised the lawn product alongside a host of other stars.
The 45-second spot also stars Martha Stewart, 79, who is shown tending to tomatoes in her garden.
Carl Weathers plays golf in his backyard, while Kyle Busch drives a ride-on lawnmower and fitness instructor Emma Lovewell does yoga
John is then shown playing with a phone camera. ‘Dad, it’s the red one,’ said Ella, who wears a black jacket over a black floral print dress for the ad.
Hand jive: John Travolta teamed up with his daughter Ella to recreate a famous dance scene from Grease for a Super Bowl commercial
After some toing and froing over how to get the camera to work, the pair eventually start recording.
John and Ella then dance to the Surfaces song Sunday Best that became popular in 2020 on TikTok.
Ella and John expertly perform the dance that his Grease character Danny Zuko did with Sandy Olsson, played by Olivia Newton-John, 72, during the hand jive contest.
‘He’s still got it,’ Martha says after peeking through her tomato bushes.
Nice moves: Ella and John were in sync as they danced together
The Office actor Leslie David Baker yells over: ‘Hey, Travoltas, don’t be Tik-ity Tok-king on my grass!’.
John also has a 10-year-old son Benjamin, with his late wife Kelly Preston, who died in July 2020 at age 57, two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
He is also dad to son Jett, who died in 2009 at age 16 while on a Christmas vacation in the Bahamas.
Dream garden: Martha Stewart was shown in her dream garden tending to tomato bushes
Golf yard: Carl Weathers played golf in his backyard
Funny guy: Leslie David Baker also was in the 45-second commercial
Camera ready: Ella helped her dad with the phone camera
Popular song: John and Ella danced to the Surfaces song Sunday Best that became popular in 2020 on TikTok.
Got it: ‘He’s still got it,’ Martha said after peeking through her tomato bushes
Off grass: Leslie was grilling in his yard as he yelled over, ‘Hey, Travoltas, don’t be Tik-ity Tok-king on my grass!’
Still dancing: John and Ella stole the show with their dance moves