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Hollywood's Travolta high-tails it to nativity scene
Nov 14, 2010, 4:21 GMT
Sydney - Hollywood actor John Travolta has left Australia in a hurry after news came from the United States that his wife, Kelly Preston, had gone into labour.
Travolta, 56, was piloting his personal Boeing 707 across the Pacific on Sunday, hoping to arrive in time for the birth.
He was in Australia for the 90th birthday celebrations of Qantas Airways, which helps provide fuel for his lumbering passenger jet.
On his arrival last week, he warned that he would 'have to take the plane straight back on a 22-hour flight' if fatherhood beckoned.
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