BASIC - TRAVOLTA: I'VE GOT THE LUCK OF THE IRISH

BASIC star JOHN TRAVOLTA puts his illustrious Hollywood career down to his Irish heritage.

The American actor's mother HELEN was Irish, and he grew up in a Irish neighbourhood in New Jersey - and is pleased that he inherited some gallic charm.

He says, "The emotional, romantic, whimsical part of me is Irish. Spiritually, I probably feel more like an Irishman - that's where my heart is.

"The feelings I have for food and dance is probably the Italian side of me. I have the sexuality of an Italian but I think the Irish are very sexy too. I grew up in an all-Irish neighbourhood and it was as sexual as anything."