Hollywood icon John Travolta has praised his wife Kelly Preston for rescuing his crumbling career in the early '90s - because she insisted he had a future as a movie star.

The 50-year-old was subjected to ridicule in the media for accepting roles including LOOK WHO'S TALKING NOW before he bounced back from the brink as a hitman in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 classic Pulp Fiction.

And Travolta credits wife Preston with pulling him through the traumatic period.

He says, "I've never become cynical or bitter, thanks to her. It would've been easy to do so, particularly when I couldn't get the work I wanted.

"But she'd always tell me, 'You have what many people don't have in Hollywood - and that's personal happiness.'"

27/05/2004 17:20