Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster’s wedding ceremony anniversary celebrations this weekend introduced up a clumsy reminiscence for a Coronary heart Radio presenter as he defined the well-known pair spoiled his proposal plans.
Sir Rod Stewart and his spouse Penny Lancaster have been accused of spoiling a Coronary heart Radio presenter’s proposal plans. To mark their 18th wedding ceremony anniversary this week, the pair boarded the Venice Simplon-Orient-Categorical to revisit their engagement, wedding ceremony and honeymoon spots.
Six years into courting in 2005, the Maggie Might hitmaker obtained down on one knee on the prime of the Eiffel Tower. They tied the knot in a small city simply outdoors of Portofino, Italy two years later.
Their 2007 wedding ceremony was adopted by a honeymoon off the coast, which included celebrations on a yacht. Discussing the couple’s anniversary on Coronary heart Radio’s Breakfast Present on Friday, Jamie Theakston hilariously accused Rod of ruining his personal proposal plan.
Across the identical time that the singer requested Penny for her hand in marriage, the presenter recalled being on a prepare to Paris along with his then girlfriend Sophie, who he was about to pop the query to.
Jamie defined his plan had been to suggest to his now spouse on the Eiffel Tower, till he found her true emotions about that concept, Glasgow Dwell experiences.
Chatting with his co-stars Amanda Holden and Ashley Roberts, he mentioned: “I believed the Eiffel Tower could be romantic, on the Eiffel Tower, on one knee, pop the query, job carried out.
“It was an attractive weekend, the solar was shining, we might been to Paris a few instances earlier than, so it was a particular place.”
Jamie recalled how “nervous” he was about getting the ring he had secretly packed via customs with out Sophie seeing it, which was fortunately successful.
Nevertheless, his subsequent drawback got here when he needed to rethink his proposal plan.
He defined: “Anyway, she’s studying a replica of Hi there! Journal, she goes, ‘OMG. Are you aware Rod Stewart has simply obtained engaged to Penny Lancaster?’ I mentioned, ‘Oh, actually?’
“She mentioned, ‘How naff is that this, they did it in Paris on the Eiffel Tower’.”
After Amanda and Ashley expressed their shock, he admitted he debated whether or not to scrap the plan fully.
Nevertheless, he determined to go forward with the proposal however carried it out in a extra personal setting – their resort room.
He joked: “It wasn’t as particular as it would’ve been. So primarily, I maintain Rod and Penny personally liable for the entire collapse of my wedding ceremony proposal.”
Whereas the engagement he had imagined did not fairly go to plan, the principle factor was that Sophie gladly accepted his proposal.
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The pair went on to wed in Ditchling, Sussex and now have two sons collectively; Sidney, 17, and Package, 16.
As for Rod and Penny, the Unfastened Ladies star is the singer’s third spouse who he has two sons with; Alastair, 19, and Aiden, 14.
Sir Rod has eight youngsters in whole throughout 5 completely different girls. His different youngsters are Sarah, 61, Kimberly, 45, Sean, 44, Ruby, 38, Renee, 33, Liam, 30.
Earlier than Penny, he was married to Alana Stewart from 1979 to 1984, adopted by Rachel Hunter from 1990 to 2006.
