Rod Stewart's marriage rollercoaster from painful split to cheeky bedroom confession

Rock vocalist Rod Stewart has been with his wife, Loose Women prima Penny Lancaster, for much than 20 years - with their emotion communicative inspiring immoderate of his fashionable tracks

Rod Stewart recovered everlasting emotion with Penny Lancaster - but their matrimony has been acold from plain sailing.

The rock legend, 79, has been announced arsenic the archetypal prima to play adjacent year's Glastonbury Festival and volition beryllium making an iconic instrumentality to unrecorded euphony successful 2025. The quality comes aft Rod precocious denied a rift successful his relationship with Loose Women panellist and exemplary Penny.

Following reports Rod and Penny were facing 'disharmony' successful their matrimony earlier this year, the vocalist told fans they could "not beryllium much successful emotion with each other" successful an Instagram post. The mates has spent much than 2 decades together, and Penny is Rod's 3rd wife.

While it took the megastar decades to find lasting romance and settee down, having had 8 children with 5 antithetic mothers, helium knew it was meant to beryllium with Penny. But helium was near heartbroken erstwhile they concisely split. Here, we instrumentality a look astatine the pair's chaotic romance...

Rod was archetypal joined to Alana Stewart from 1979 to 1984, and the mates stock 2 children - girl Kimberly, 43, and lad Sean, 42. His 2nd woman was exemplary Rachel Hunter from 1990 to 2006, with whom helium shares girl Renee, 30, and lad Liam, 28.

He shares 35-year-old girl Ruby with ex-girlfriend Kelly Emberg, and Sarah, 59, with different ex-partner, Susanna Boffey. With Penny, who is 27 years his junior, Rod has sons Alastair, 17, and Aiden, 11.

Rod, present 79, and 52-year-old Penny archetypal crossed paths successful the precocious 1990s, erstwhile helium hired the budding lensman to instrumentality photos of him portion connected tour. Their narration got disconnected to a dilatory and dependable commencement and successful 2005, helium popped the question astatine the apical of the Eiffel Tower, with Penny of people saying 'yes'.

They tied the knot 2 years aboriginal successful 2007 successful a glamorous ceremonial successful Italy, successful beforehand of 100 household and friends. Ten years on, they renewed their vows successful an intimate ceremonial astatine their Essex Home.

Penny said: "Being capable to bespeak connected those 10 years, and accidental those words to 1 different and inactive cognize we mean them is important. This felt much special. You get joined with the anticipation that you'll beryllium together; erstwhile we renewed our vows, we said them not with conscionable hope, but with reassurance. Along with hope, determination is besides faith, emotion and bringing each the household together."

Speaking with Hello! Rod added: "Penny is my full world. What a girl. Love means galore things to galore radical but to me, it's wanting to stock everything with the 1 you emotion and I emotion Penny much present than ever, if that is astatine each possible. It was a beautifully romanticist happening to do. We're not proving anything, conscionable sharing our emotion with our friends and family."

However the brace went done a devastating unsmooth patch, with Penny needing clip distant from the relationship. Heartbroken Rod was near gazing astatine a photograph of Penny each nighttime and greeting aft she walked retired him. They yet patched up their problems and the Sailing prima decided to sing astir his ordeal connected his album, Time. Rod explained: "I screen Tom Waits' Picture In A Frame.

"Penny and I broke up for 2 weeks and the opus is astir that time. I asked her for a photograph of herself successful a framework truthful that I could spot her erstwhile I went to furniture and erstwhile I woke up." He past added that helium had "taken a batch of risks" erstwhile it came to romance - but that helium learnt women similar to perceive the truth, and they hatred smoking and gambling.

Speaking to Australian mag Life successful 2013, Rod went connected to accidental helium has learnt invaluable lessons erstwhile it comes to matrimony and lasting romance. "My narration regularisation is 'Don't reason aft a solid of wine' permission debating until the morning,'" helium explained.

"I person ever loved women, won some, mislaid some, but it's not astir the magic touch, it's astir being a amended idiosyncratic and a bully listener. I met Penny successful my 50s and if I had not learnt by that constituent successful my beingness I was ne'er going to."

And successful a 2021 interrogation with People, Rod explained the concealed to his enduring romance with Penny. "Intimacy is the astir important happening successful a relationship.' Don't instrumentality it for granted," the vocalist recalled. "I'm not talking astir sex, but a buss and a cuddle and a hold," helium explained.

"Penny and I bash that each morning. We hug each different — sometimes successful bed, sometimes retired of bed, each passim the day. It's a fantastic relationship. Lucky geezer, aren't I?"

He and Penny sadly went done the mill to person their 2 boys though. Penny suffered 2 miscarriages, and they turned to IVF to assistance conceive their youngest. She opened up astir moving connected their matrimony during her sheet duties connected Loose Women and told the Mirror that it's astir caring for her hubby arsenic overmuch arsenic their children.

"I effort and divided my clip betwixt my eldest kid – Rod – and my different 2 boys," she giggled. "Most men are inactive needy, particularly erstwhile you person been successful a agelong narration earlier children arrive, and past children bash instrumentality up a large portion of your clip and men consciousness they are near retired a bit.

"So I marque a precise conscious effort to dedicate clip - the 2 of america going retired for meal oregon having meal together. Just a infinitesimal amongst the madness, helium inactive needs attention."

And it appears their emotion continues to prevail, arsenic conscionable past twelvemonth they reportedly renewed their vows to each different for the 2nd clip whilst Rod was touring Down Under. The Maggie May prima was claimed to person "spaced retired his tour" truthful his children could be the ceremony, according to Woman's Day magazine.

A person adjacent to the family, said: "There's a precise bully crushed wherefore Rod's insisted helium abstraction retired his circuit dates – it's the cleanable spot and the cleanable clip to renew their wedding vows." The insider claimed Penny and Rod person been wanting to renew their vows for a while, adding: "Now they can't hold and are utilizing this accidental to bash thing peculiar portion here."

After cementing their vows during their archetypal renewal, Penny said of their 15-year stint: "Our honeymoon play seems to person lasted forever, we inactive person a transportation similar we conscionable met."