Ouch, that’s gotta hurt.

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John Travolta hasn’t left his disco days behind him – the Hollywood legend turned up at a fancy dress party sporting a familiar screen costume. The 53-year-old squeezed into his classic Saturday Night Fever suit for a 1970s-themed bash in the Bahamas at the weekend.

While other stars including Usher and Stevie Wonder donned Afro wigs, kaftans and tie dyed fabrics for the Silly 70s party, Travolta kept it cool in his iconic white outfit.

It’s been exactly 30 years since he played troubled teen Tony Manero in the dance classic.

Okay, I hope someone took a picture of that…that would be serious hotness..

Angry Scientologists are trying to get a BBC documentary about their faith scrapped amid claims of “gross bias” by presenter John Sweeney.

The Panorama programme, to be shown tonight, investigates whether the Church of Scientology has moved away from its past as a brainwashing cult.

But furious church members – including actor John Travolta – say the programme should be ditched because Mr Sweeney showed he was biased by losing his temper and shouting at a top scientologist.

After the man accused him of giving “an easy interview” to a critic of the religion, Mr Sweeney screamed: “You were not there at the beginning of the interview.

“You were not there. You did not hear or record all the interview.”

Scientologists have sent 100,000 copies of film of the incident to MPs, civil servants and

business leaders, as well as posting it on the YouTube website.

Travolta has also written to BBC executives, accusing Mr Sweeney of “personal prejudices, bigotry and animosity”.

But the broadcaster insisted last night that the programme would go ahead.

A BBC source said Mr Sweeney, who has apologised for his rant, had become distressed after following Scientologists for days and watching harrowing footage of people being tortured as part of an exhibition by the church attacking psychiatry.

The source added: “It was a very intense time. He was completely in the wrong and should never have lost his rag – but he’s only human.”

Mr Sweeney said: “I am hugely embarrassed. I let the side down and the BBC down and I am ashamed but I felt I was being brainwashed.

“If people see the full clip, I think they will have more sympathy with me.”

The BBC has reprimanded Mr Sweeney but is not taking disciplinary action after deciding he did not breach any guidelines.

Producers plan to include his outburst in the documentary.

Panorama has also posted its own footage on YouTube, showing a leading American Scientologist threatening Mr Sweeney.

Tom Davis – a friend of fellow follower Tom Cruise and son of actress Anne Archer – says he cannot be responsible for his actions if Mr Sweeney keeps referring to the religion as a “sinister cult”.

He says: “For you to repeatedly refer to my faith in these terms is so derogatory, so offensive and so bigoted and the reason you keep repeating it is because you want a reaction like you are getting now.”

Mr Sweeney has complained of becoming a victim of intimidation while making the programme. He says he was followed and his wedding was gatecrashed.

Panorama spent six months investigating the religion – which claims humans are descended from a race of aliens called thetans – and interviewed several people who said they had cut off their families after becoming Scientologists.

The documentary also exposes apparent links between Scientology leaders and City of London police officers.

Chief Superintendent Ken Stewart is shown praising the controversial organisation, which supplied hospitality worth £11,000 to the force. Policemen attended scientology dinners and the premiere of Cruise’s film Mission Impossible 3.

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John Travolta recently said that he is as big as Elvis and Marilyn Monroe – but didn’t suffer the same fate because of Scientology.

“I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis, but part of the reason I didn’t go the way they did was because of my beliefs,” Travolta told the Irish Independent.

People make judgments about it [Scientology], but often they don’t know what they’re talking about,” Travolta said. “I would advise anyone who wants to know about it to read up on it. We [the Church of Scientology] are only getting bigger and we help people all over the world, from disaster zones to drug rehabilitation.”

Travolta also explained how he used his celeb status to help Scientology in Germany, where it had been under attack in some circles. “We were having a problem in Germany [where some critics called Scientology a money-making entity rather than a religion],” he told the Independent. “I talked to [former president Bill] Clinton who talked to Chancellor Kohl and things have improved since then.”

John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston are planning to expand their family and are trying to have a third child.

The couple, who have been married for 15 years, currently have two children together, son Jett, 14, and daughter, Ella, six.

The star confirmed rumors they were thinking of having another baby saying, “Yeah, we do want to have another kid and we’re going to work on it this summer.”

The Swordfish star claims the couple uses different techniques to try and plan the sex of their children.

He adds, “There are these other things where you have to decide if you want to have a boy or a girl. There are certain techniques you use. It worked twice. We wanted a boy the first time and we got a girl the second time. It has to do with positions and results and all sorts of intricate things.”

As various parties continue to fight over the remains of Anna Nicole Smith and custody of her baby, John Travolta has stepped into the fray.

The Pulp Fiction star has decided to use her death as a chance to promote Narconon – the controversial Church of Scientology drug rehab programme – saying it could have saved the Playmate’s life.

A toxicology report from the 39- year-old’s autopsy has not been completed yet, but methadone and other drugs were discovered in the Florida hotel room where she died earlier this month.

Travolta said: ‘It’s so sad. We could have helped her with Narconon but didn’t get a chance to. I wish we had.’

The 53-year-old worked with Smith on the film Be Cool.

Narconon has been widely criticised for its unorthodox and controversial methods which include an intensive running programme, large doses of vitamins and long sauna sessions, designed to ‘run out’ drugs and ‘radiation’ from the body.

Scientologists claim Narconon is 85 per cent effective.

However, critics say it is a front to recruit vulnerable drug abusers into the religion.

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