EXCLUSIVE EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Sir Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster's son Alastair, 19, drops out of fashion school to pursue career in film

Daily Mail​

08-05-2025

Sir Rod Stewart tipped his teenage son Alastair to play a younger version of himself if a Hollywood film were ever made about his very colourful life.
'There's a remarkable similarity,' the singer remarked.
And maybe Alastair, 19, could be up for the challenge as, I can disclose, he's dropped out of fashion school to pursue a career in film.
Last autumn, he embarked on a three-year degree course in fashion design, entrepreneurship and branding at the JCA London Fashion Academy.
'I was attending that fashion college, but I've left now,' he tells me at the world premiere of Ocean with Sir David Attenborough.
'I'm in a bit of a transitional period at the moment.
'I'm trying to get into the film industry, and I want to follow my passion.'
Alastair, who attended the screening at Royal Festival Hall in London with his mother Penny Lancaster, 54, added: 'I want to be behind the camera, that's my real passion.
'I've made a few short plays, I write a lot of scripts, and I write a lot of screenplays.'
Rod's, 80, wife Penny recently opened up on the trials and tribulations of navigating a blended family with her husband's other children.
The Maggie May hitmaker has eight children with five different women, two of whom are sons Alastair and Aidan, 14, who he welcomed with his third wife Penny.
Rod also has Liam, 30, and Renee, 32, with his second wife, model Rachel Hunter, 55, while Kimberly, 45, and Sean, 44, are from his first marriage to actress Alana Stewart, 79.
He has another daughter Ruby, 37, from a former relationship with model Kelly Emberg, 65 and Rod's firstborn child is Sarah Streeter, 61, who was raised by her adoptive parents Gerald and Evelyn Thubron.
Discussing the subject of blended families on the Loose Women podcast with Coleen Nolan, 60, Penny reflected on entering Rod's life when his children Liam and Renee were young, revealing how 'difficult' it must've been for them having another woman in their lives following their parents' divorce.
'I was attending that fashion college, but I've left now,' he tells me at the world premiere of Ocean with Sir David Attenborough (pictured). I'm in a bit of a transitional period at the moment. I'm trying to get into the film industry, and I want to follow my passion
They were speaking in response to a caller who admitted that she didn't want her ex-husband to take their children on holiday with his partner and their children.
Sharing her own experiences of becoming a stepmother, Penny explained: 'There's five mothers, so it's a bit blended', later adding: '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.'
Penny has a great relationship with all of Rod's children, with the whole clan often holidaying together.