Olivia in TV comeback

Olivia Newton-John is returning to the television screen.

The star of Grease, who developed breast cancer in the Nineties, will appear on British screens next year in a TV film, The Wilde Girls.

It is about a former singer and single mother bringing up her talented child alone.

Olivia, 53, appears opposite her real-life daughter, 15-year-old Chloe, who has been receiving good reviews.

"Cancer terrified me," said the star. "The pain was awful. I had a modified radical mastectomy and reconstruction, then years of chemotherapy and homeopathy. I have been clear for five years now.

"My daughter asked me if she would get cancer because I had it. I was happy to tell her absolutely not.

"I feel I have had a second chance at life and I wake up grateful for every morning."

The British-born singer and actress, who grew up in Australia, will forever be remembered for her role opposite John Travolta in the 1978 musical Grease.

In the film she played Sandy, the high school goody-goody who metamorphosed into a vamp and sported one of the tightest pairs of Spandex trousers in cinema history for the final number, You're The One That I Want.

Olivia moved to the Malibu Hills outside Los Angeles, but had a stormy divorce from her husband Matt Lattanzi, to whom she was married for 11 years.

Last year it was reported that Olivia was in negotiations to turn the story of her turbulent life into a Hollywood movie and tell-all book.