Is Olivia Newton-John related to Elton John?
Elton John was born on 25 March 1947, in a Middlesex suburb named Pinner. His parents were Stanley Dwight and Sheila Eileen Farebrother, a Royal Air Force flight lieutenant and housewife.
Stanley is described as “strict and remote and had a terrible temper” while Sheila is remembered by Elton for being “argumentative and prone to dark moods.
Olivia Newton-John was born on 26 September 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. She was the youngest of three children to parents Brinley ‘Bryn’ Newton-John and Irene Helene. Irene was a writer and environmentalist and Brinley was seemingly a professor. He was also a secret MI5 officer — but Olivia only found this out when she was in her thirties!
Is Olivia Newton-John related to Elton John?
Olivia Newton-John and Elton John are not related, not even in the distant cousin twice-removed kind of way.
Though they may not catch up around the family dinner table at Thanksgiving, they are very close friends and collaborators in real life.