If you're not close to Hollywood star John Travolta you probably don't know this.

The Saturday Night Fever star reportedly had a six-year fling with his personal pilot, which was a completely open secret known to people close to the actor.  

The actor's former personal secretary Joan Edwards and a boyfriend of the pilot make the claims. "I did everything for him, including taking care of his personal and professional schedules. Of course I knew he was gay. It never bothered me."

Pilot Doug Gotterba, who now runs a charter plane service in California, would only confirm that he worked for Travolta for six years in the 1980s. "That's how I met Doug. We both worked for John at the same time. Doug is a wonderful guy and we are still good friends. He told me that John was gay and they had a sexual relationship,' Edwards said.  

"Doug told me right at the beginning of our relationship that he'd had a homosexual relationship with John Travolta in the 1980s. Doug said John was constantly grabbing at his genital area, but he put up with John's sexual advances because working for him was 'lucrative'," Edwards said.

Travolta's personal flyboy eventually turned away from the actor, grossed out by his weight and body odour.