Grease celebrates its 40th anniversary this year (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)

We definitely didn’t see this coming!

Turns out the kids on the set of Grease – well, they weren’t kids, but they were playing high schoolers! – got up to a lot of naughty shenanigans behind the scenes.

The cast have made some pretty amazing revelations as they celebrate 40 years of the hit musical film – and we’re talking debaucherous times involving ‘rocking trailers’ and ‘spiked brownies’.

Jeff Conaway, 26 – who died in 2011, aged 60 – who played Kenickie in the 1978 film was said to be quite the ladies man on set – reportedly harbouring a big ol’ crush on Olivia Newton-John.


However, Barry Pearl, who played T-bird Doody, said Conaway was also busy ‘seducing the extras’ while he had his eye on Liv.



‘We used to joke all the time because his trailer at lunchtime was really rocking,’ he said. ‘He made out like a bandit.’

This, surprisingly, wasn’t the raunchiest thing to happen on set (Picture: Now TV)

He wasn’t the only hit with the ladies, though, as Dinah Manoff – who played Pink Lady Marty – spoke of John Travolta’s allure on set as he played main character Danny Zuko.

‘You couldn’t fail to have the biggest crush in the whole world on him. He was radiating so much talent and energy. I just started stuttering around him,’ she said ahead of the anniversary. ‘Think about that moment he turns around in the film for the first time: you see that face and everybody just gasps.

The film was released in 1978 and seemed pretty innocent, tbh

‘That’s how it was. Really jaw-dropping.’

While Didi Conn, who played beauty school drop out Frenchie, remembered a particularly high time at the wrap party.

She said: ‘I don’t even remember the wrap party because somebody made some brownies. There was something in it! I won’t mention names… I just remember laughing a lot!’

Sex, drugs and rock and roll really did go down during filming, it seems!

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It was also claimed both Newton-John – who was 28 at the time – and Travolta – who was 23 – had to pass ‘crow’s feet tests’ to make sure they looked young enough to play teenagers.

If their facial lines were visible in close-up shots, they wouldn’t have been given the plum roles.

While Didi also revealed cast members had to fight not to pass out from the heat, as all the windows were kept closed during filming as the school that paraded as Rydell High – Venice High School in Los Angeles – was situated next to a pork plant.

‘It was so smelly, noisy and so very, very hot but everybody was just having fun, dancing and trying new things — you had to or you’d faint from the heat.’

We’ll never look at the movie the same!

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