When you picture a Rod Stewart meet-cute, you probably imagine something involving leopard print, a disco ball, and at least three cans of hairspray. But according to Penny Lancaster, the real story of how the rock legend first won her over was far sweeter—and much craftier—than anyone might expect.
In a newly shared interview with fashion designer Amanda Wakeley, Penny takes us back to the very night she met the man who’d eventually become her husband. Spoiler: It all started with a dare, a short black dress, and one incredibly smooth chat-up line.
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♬ original sound - Amanda WakeleyPenny was out dancing with girlfriends when one of them spotted Stewart across the room. As the designated “tall one who pushes to the front,” Penny was immediately volunteered for autograph duty.
“I was in a short black number,” she recalled the important detail, considering what she later learned: “Rod is a leg man. So the legs were… the pins were out.”
Approaching a global rock star wasn’t exactly on her bingo card for the night, but she sauntered over, using charm, politeness, and her now-iconic legs as her secret weapons. Stewart was surrounded by his band as he was on tour at the time, but welcomed her instantly.
“I apologize for interrupting, ‘Would you mind signing an autograph for my girlfriend?’” Penny told him. He invited her to sit, asked what she did, and when she said she was studying photography, he delivered a line so smooth it should honestly be framed:
“Would you like the opportunity to come to my show tomorrow and take some pictures?”
As Penny put it: “I thought, crafty. I thought, I like that one.”
He wasn’t done. “Are you good at dancing?” he asked, before promising, “I’m gonna come and watch.” Penny rushed back to her friends—autograph in hand, rock star watching from the bar—and the night quickly shifted from fun girls’ outing to “Is this actually happening?”
Before the night ended, Stewart called her over again, this time to gently tell her he was “going through a tricky patch” and that news of his separation would hit the papers the next morning. Penny hadn’t even known if he was married.
The next day, she kept it strictly professional: Fully covered outfit, camera in hand, zero glam factor. “I wanted this to be like a professional thing,” she said. She shot the concert, developed the photos, and life moved on—until it didn’t.
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The Nine-Month Wait and the Fully Buttoned-Up Second First Date
They didn’t see each other again after the show as Stewart had to slip out quickly due to the media frenzy surrounding his separation. But nine months later, Penny came home to a message waiting on her landline (yes, the landline).
“Back in town. Can we meet?” Stewart said.
She played the message back over and over, making sure she’d heard correctly. Their reunion was a double date, and Stewart again asked to see the photos she’d taken. Penny, determined to set the tone, showed up in the most demure outfit she could find.
“I wore brown pleather trousers. A brown rollneck. A jacket … buttoned up.”“She was completely covered up head to toe,” she revealed Stewart later joked. But Penny had her reasons: “I wanted him to know that there was more to uncover with this one.”
What started as a dare at a nightclub bar eventually became one of rock-and-roll’s most enduring love stories — all thanks to a pick-up line disguised as a business opportunity.
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