Loved-up Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster hold hands in Copenhagen as she joins his tour
Sir Rod Stewart was supported by his wife Penny Lancaster as he prepared for his tour in Copenhagen. The music icon, 80, donned a matching outfit with his Loose Women star wife, 54, in a loved up snap.
They were reunited with each other once again as they enjoyed their home comforts at the Hotel d'Angleterre in the Danish capital. Both Rod and Penny sipped on their drinks in the stunning location as they lovingly held hands. Rod rocked a thick cream jumper with grey chinos at the five-star hotel as he added high-top white trainers and a silver chain bracelet. Penny matched her rock star husband was she wore a shirt in the same shade and kept her long blonde locks down.
They both beamed at the camera as they proudly held hands while enjoying quality time together. Penny gushed: "Back out on tour - together again."
Rod is due to take to the iconic Pyramid stage at the 2025 Glastonbury festival in the traditional Sunday Legends slot later this year.
In a statement at the time of his announcement, he said: 'I'm proud, ready and more than able to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June.'
However, he later revealed performing at the music festival would cost him a huge amount of money - but he insisted it was worth it in order to play to fans on Worthy Farm.
Appearing on TALKSport last November he said: 'It's a great honour.' However, he admitted: 'It's going to cost me a fortune to do it – $300,0000 (£236,832).'
Explaining the huge financial cost, Rod added: 'I've got to bring all my band back from America, of course Glastonbury don't pay for that.
'But I don't care if it cost me $1million (£789,440), I would have done it. This is a great honour. It really is the greatest honour.'
Rod is also heading out on a world tour this year, which kicks off in Dortmund, Germany on Saturday. It will be a mammoth seven-month trip across the world as he performs in Europe, North America and South America.
Penny will be on hand to support the rocker, as she recently opened up on their home life together. Rod is the father to eight children: Sarah, Kimberly, Sean, Ruby, Renee, Liam, Alastair Wallace, and Aiden Patrick, from relationships with five women: Susannah Boffey, Alana Stewart, Rachel Hunter, and his spouse Penny herself.
During a heart-to-heart with Coleen Nolan on Loose Women: The Podcast, Penny discussed her and the 'Maggie May' hitmaker's extended clan.
She admitted her uncertainty about "what it would be like" amid a "divorce situation" when your kids go off on holiday with a "new wife."
Penny said: "There's five mothers, so it's a bit blended." She later added: "I really did take into account what it must be like for the mother when I was around Rod [Stewart's] children.
"Liam and Renee, Liam was just five and Renee was seven. So, still quite young and impressionable and I could only imagine how difficult it was for those children to have their parents divorced, let alone to have another woman around."
She added: "I guess I just wanted them to see that dad was happy, and if I was the person that was making dad happy and dad still communicated with mum and they still made the big decisions about things, it was a case of just tiptoeing."
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