Penny Lancaster has shared what her father Graham actually considered her relationship Sir Rod Stewart, who’s 26 years older than her. The 54-year-old mannequin met Rod, 80, at a bar in London’s Mayfair in 1999 when she was working as a photographer.

After asking him if she may take photos of him on tour, he agreed and later requested her out on a date.

Penny beforehand claimed that she wasn’t a fan of Rod at first, earlier than getting “sucked” into his world and falling in love with him.

Reflecting on the sooner levels of their romance in a brand new interview, the mother-of-two shared what it was actually like introducing the rockstar to her mother and father.

With Rod being nearer to her mum and pa’s ages than her, she admitted to feeling “awkward” at first.

“He wished to satisfy my mother and father and I believed it might be actually awkward as a result of they had been the identical age as him,” she confessed.

“My father had been by way of the mill with me and my boyfriends throughout my teenage years, he at all times put that down as one of many causes he went gray – after which out of the blue there’s this rock star.”

Eager to impress Graham, Penny mentioned Rod switched up his search for the event. 

“We had been arranging a dinner with my dad, who was a lawyer, so Rod wished to be respectful and drop the rock and roll look, turning up in a double-breasted swimsuit,” she instructed Good day! Journal. 

Recalling how the night went, she added: “My father thought, ‘Proper, rock star’ so he dropped his swimsuit and turned up in a leather-based jacket. They had been each equally nervous, however they bought on like a home on hearth.”

Penny went on to say from that second on, she knew “Rod was the one” for her.

In a earlier admission, the Free Girls star mentioned her mother and father came upon about her romance with the Maggie Could hitmaker by way of the press.

“I didn’t have a alternative, the press made it public,” she mentioned. “Like, what’s occurring right here?”

Quizzed on if she would relatively have saved it a secret by her co-star Kaye Adams, she replied in 2021: “Nicely, for the youngsters’s sake, Rod’s kids and the very fact there was at all times hypothesis about Rod’s new girlfriend.

“I believe it’s nicer to permit these folks to make that alternative relatively than the press do it for you.

“They find yourself knocking in your father’s door and say, ‘By the best way, do you know your daughter’s going out with Rod Stewart?’ It’s kind of awkward.”

After turning into critical with Rod, she not solely needed to get used to his excessive profile fame, but in addition his blended household.

Earlier than assembly Penny, he already had six kids from 4 totally different ladies together with two along with his ex-wife Rachel Hunter.

The couple, who married in 2007, went on to have two sons of their very own; Alastair, 19, and Aiden, 13.