“I’ve always loved the idea of curating my own television nature programme,” reveals photographer and Loose Women guest panellist Penny Lancaster, who can’t get enough of the great outdoors. The garden of her home on the Hertfordshire-Essex border is full of mature oak trees and topiary – and she and rock-legend husband Sir Rod Stewart are, she declares, tree huggers (“It’s really grounding”).
A sanctuary for when “life gets fast”, Bluebell is a cause for near disaster, too. “We’ve got a bedroom at the front, and one time Rod was lying in there with the doors open while I was at the other end. Then I went, ‘Oh darling, hang on!’. We crashed into the bank, and a willow tree came into the bedroom,” recalls Lancaster. “Rod was lying there with a tree on top of him!”
Balancing all that extravagance, glamour and wealth is service to the community. Most Thursdays, the former Strictly Come Dancing contestant does a night shift for the City of London Police. She became a volunteer Special Constable in 2021 after falling in love with policing in 2019 when she took part in the Channel 4 series Famous and Fighting Crime, and has been on duty at high-profile national events, including the funeral of Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles. She has also made two arrests that she describes as nerve-racking but quite momentous. “It’s like passing an exam,” she explains.
“That’s one of the reasons I feel I’m out there [as a special constable] now. I’m finding justice, but for someone else, someone like me – hence the title of the book.”
Stewart claimed Lancaster experienced bullying at the hands of Gregg Wallace, labelling him a “tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully” who “humiliated” her when she took part in Celebrity MasterChef in 2021. Lancaster later contributed to an inquiry that upheld 45 out of 83 allegations of misconduct against Wallace and prompted his sacking from the BBC cookery show. “That was a refreshing piece of justice,” says Lancaster.
As well as his boys with Lancaster, plus Kimberly, 45, and Sean, 44 – his children from his first marriage to actress Alana Stewart – Rod shares Renée, 32, and Liam, 30, with second wife, model Rachel Hunter, plus another daughter, Ruby, 37, from his romance with model Kelly Emberg. He fathered his eldest child, Sarah Streeter, 61, at 18, before putting her up for adoption. “We’re already talking about Christmas because we have to figure that stuff out in advance,” says Lancaster. “It’s very hard to get everybody together.”
Thank the stars for Bluebell…
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