Rod Stewart’s rollercoaster love life with world’s most beautiful women as he turns 80 – & why he thinks Penny is unique
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BESIDES his flamboyant attire, Gucci loafers and spiky blond locks, Rod Stewart wears another thing rather well. His fame. Most superstars encounter choppy waters. For some, it’s a case of stormy seas. But for Sir Roderick David Stewart, navigating life in the dazzling glare of publicity seems, erm, plain Sailing.
![[Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster posing together.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/rod-stewart-penny-lancaster-pose-909149301.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
As he celebrates his 80th birthday today with his brood on a superyacht (what else?), Rod’s status as a national treasure has never been in doubt. When he occupies the Sunday teatime “legends slot” at Glastonbury in June, it is guaranteed to be the summer’s biggest singalong. (Sorry Noel and Liam).
![[Rod Stewart performing on stage.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/rod-stewart-performs-rod-laver-852766970.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
We all know the inimitable rasp and we all know the hits . . . Maggie May, Sailing, Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?, You Wear It Well, Tonight’s The Night (Gonna be Alright), I Don’t Want To Talk About It and the rest. But the great thing about Rod is that he DOES want to talk about it . . . usually with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.
![[Rod Stewart and Britt Ekland in 1976.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/c5c505a5-86b7-4db7-8b81-65ebdfdfc7ba.jpg?strip=all&w=742)
I vividly remember a recent interview when he strolled into a swish London hotel suite, dapper as ever, the day after Stormy Daniels made her cringe-inducing comment about Donald Trump’s manhood. “Simon, how you bloody well been?” he cried. “Nothing like a penis that looks like a mushroom is there?!”.
![[Rod Stewart's family and friends celebrating a birthday.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/sean-stewart-adam-sumner-renee-961963842_5c08a9.jpg?strip=all&w=620)
Humour aside, Rod is also a man of huge passions for — in no particular order — family and friends, music, Celtic FC, model trains, fashion and a nice glass of vintage red. Woe betide anyone who upsets his “forever” partner, third wife Penny Lancaster, also known as Loose Woman, Special Constable and Lady Stewart.
![[Rod Stewart and Kelly Emberg in New York City.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NINTCHDBPICT000428382717.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
