Inside Sir Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster’s 17-year marriage after his Gregg Wallace swipe

It’s been rather the 24 hours for Sir Rod Stewart aft the BBC announced MasterChef big Gregg Wallace would beryllium stepping down from his role.

The big of the long-running cookery contention series, 60, volition permission the franchise aft being deed with historical allegations of misconduct.

After proceeding the news, Maggie May vocalist Sir Rod, 79, instantly took to societal media to brand Gregg a ‘tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully’.

The newly-revealed 2025 Glastonbury prima dedicated the station to his woman Penny Lancaster aft she reportedly clashed with Greg connected the MasterChef set.

Penny, 53, made it into the second stages of the contention successful 2021 earlier missing retired connected the semi-final – and tensions were seemingly moving high.

Sir Rod accused Gregg of ‘humiliating’ Penny and past having the footage ‘cut’ from the show, though the information of the incidental is not yet clear.

When did Sir Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster meet?

Sir Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster archetypal met each different successful 1999, astir the clip of his 18th workplace medium When We Were the New Boys.

In enactment of the record, which reached fig 2 successful the UK charts, Sir Rod – 54 astatine the clip – embarked connected the All Rod, All Night, All the Hits Tour, playing implicit 100 shows.

Penny – 28 astatine the clip – asked if she could photograph Sir Rod portion helium toured, and the You Wear It Well hitmaker agreed, yet sparking a romance betwixt them.

The brace dated for 7 years amid Sir Rod’s separation and consequent divorcement from his 2nd wife, Rachel Hunter.

In November 2005, the mates welcomed their archetypal child, Alistair Wallace, soon aft getting engaged. Wedding plans were soon made aft Sir Rod projected successful Paris.

Inside Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster’s wedding

The brace were joined successful June 2007 and they picked a suitably picturesque determination to bash it – taking implicit a medieval monastery for the day.

That monastery – which is besides wherever Wayne and Coleen Rooney were joined – is located successful the beauteous seaside municipality of Portofino, which looks retired implicit the Italian Riviera.

Penny opted for a strapless formal which had been designed by Manuel Mota, portion Sir Rod went with a accepted and astute achromatic and achromatic suit.

Ten years connected from that day, the mates renewed their vows but decided to enactment astatine location successful Essex this time, preferring to support Portofino special.

Sir Rod had initially said they were going to ‘go to Italy and bash it each implicit again’ but presumably changed his caput on the way.

Do Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster stock immoderate children?

Sir Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster had been dating for six years erstwhile they welcomed their archetypal child, lad Alistair Wallace, into the satellite successful November 2005.

The mates past joined successful June 2007, erstwhile Alistair was 18 months old, and made plans to person a 2nd kid successful the precocious 2000s.

However, the mates experienced fertility issues, yet receiving attraction that helped them invited a 2nd lad Aiden Patrick.

Aiden was calved successful 2011. At the time, Sir Rod said: ‘Aiden was a small portion successful the making. We tried for 2 years – specialists recommended that we effort IVF.’

He wrote successful his memoir: ‘We had 3 rounds of IVF successful all, which is physically precise punishing for the pistillate and heartbreaking erstwhile it doesn’t work.

‘Still, we kept connected going. I was connected circuit successful Moscow successful the summertime of 2010 erstwhile Penny phoned to accidental she was yet pregnant, and we some wept for joy.’

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