Editing Rod Stewart (section)

==Personal life==
In May 2000, Stewart was diagnosed with [[thyroid cancer]], for which he underwent surgery the same month. It had been previously reported he suffered from a benign vocal cord nodule.<ref name=thyroid>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-02-22-stewart-thyroid.htm|work=USA Today|title=Rod Stewart faces thyroid cancer|first=Mike|last=Falcon|date=22 February 2001|access-date=22 May 2010|archive-date=16 September 2018|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180916093810/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-02-22-stewart-thyroid.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Besides being a major health scare, the resulting surgery also threatened his voice, and he had to re-learn how to sing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/03/stewart|title=Rod Stewart's cancer battle|work=CNN|date=3 February 2001|access-date=28 September 2014|archive-date=6 June 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190606082250/http://edition.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/03/stewart/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since then he has been active in raising funds for [[City of Hope National Medical Center|The City of Hope Foundation]] charity to find cures for all forms of cancer, especially those affecting children.<ref name=thyroid/> In September 2019, Stewart revealed that he was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in 2017, and was given the all-clear after treatment.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beaumont-Thomas |first1=Ben |title=Rod Stewart given all-clear following secret cancer treatment |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/16/rod-stewart-given-all-clear-following-secret-cancer-treatment |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=16 September 2019|date=16 September 2019 }}</ref>

Before returning to the UK, Stewart played for his LA Exiles team made up of mostly English expatriates plus a few celebrities, including [[Billy Duffy]] of [[the Cult]], in a senior soccer league in [[Palos Verdes, California]].<ref>[http://www.palosverdesrealty.net/462020.html Palos Verdes Football ground], palosverdesrealty.net; accessed 14 June 2016. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121055223/http://www.palosverdesrealty.net/462020.html |date=21 November 2008 }}</ref>

Despite his father having been a supporter of [[Hibernian F.C.|Hibernian]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFqjVjN4DDc&t=29m26s| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/oFqjVjN4DDc| archive-date=28 October 2021|title=Rod Stewart.Loose Women.|publisher=YouTube|date=5 November 2012|access-date=9 July 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Stewart is a supporter of [[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]], which he mentions in "[[You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)|You're in My Heart]]". He supports the [[Scotland national football team|Scotland national team]] and follows [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] as his English side, and he explains his love affair with both Celtic and Manchester United in Frank Worrall's book, ''Celtic United''.<ref>Worrall, Frank (2008). "Celtic United". Mainstream Publishing, 2008<!-- ISSN/ISBN, page(s) needed --></ref> Stewart clarifies this more in his 2012 book (pp.&nbsp;163–64), ''Rod: The Autobiography'', mentioning he "only had an attachment to Manchester United in the 1970s, but that was because they had so many great Scottish players in the 1970s, including [[Denis Law]] ... When I did eventually click with a team, it was Celtic". He presented Celtic with the trophy after they won the [[2015 Scottish League Cup Final]].<ref name=bbcfinal>{{cite news|title=Dundee Utd 0–2 Celtic|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31785677|access-date=15 March 2015|work=BBC Sport|date=14 March 2015|first=Richard|last=Wilson}}</ref>

Stewart is a [[model railway]] enthusiast. His {{cvt|23|x|124|ft}} [[HO scale]] [[model railroad layout|layout]] in his Los Angeles home is modelled after the [[New York Central]] and the [[Pennsylvania Railroad|Pennsylvania]] Railroads during the 1940s. Called the Three Rivers City, the layout was featured in the cover story of the December 2007, December 2010, February 2014, June 2017, December 2024 and January 2025 issues of ''[[Model Railroader]]'' magazine. In the 2007 article, Stewart said that it meant more to him to be in a model railroad magazine than a music magazine. The layout, which has a mainline run of {{cvt|900|ft}}, uses code 70 flextrack and a [[Digital Command Control]] (DCC) system made by Digitrax.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3668740/Rod-Stewart-is-a-model-railway-enthusiast.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3668740/Rod-Stewart-is-a-model-railway-enthusiast.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London, UK|title=Rod Stewart is a model railway enthusiast|first=Nigel|last=Reynolds|date=24 October 2007|access-date=22 May 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Swanson|first=Carl|title=Rod Stewart Reaches a Milestone|journal=Model Railroader|date=February 2014|pages=52–59|publisher=Kalmbach Publishing|location=Waukesha, WI, US}}</ref> Stewart has a second, smaller layout at his UK home, based on Britain's [[East Coast Main Line]]. In a sidebar<ref>{{cite journal|last=Swanson|journal=Model Railroader|title=Rod Stewart sidebar|date=February 2014|page=56}}</ref> to the 2014 ''Model Railroader'' article, Stewart confirmed (in an anecdote about having unwittingly mixed red scenery texturing material into a "turf" mix he used around the bases of buildings) that he is [[color-blind|colour-blind]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.factfiend.com/rod-stewart-accidentally-revealed-color-blind/|title=How Rod Stewart Accidentally Revealed he was Color-Blind|first=Karl|last=Smallwood|date=13 April 2016|work=factfiend.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.skynews.com.au/culture/showbiz/music/2015/07/29/singer-rod-stewart-is-colour-blind.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801004321/http://www.skynews.com.au/culture/showbiz/music/2015/07/29/singer-rod-stewart-is-colour-blind.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 August 2015|title=Singer Rod Stewart is colour blind|work=skynews.com.au}}</ref> In a 2019 interview with ''[[Railway Modeller]]'' magazine, he said that the hobby is "addictive" for him.

Stewart has admitted to taking cocaine in the past.<ref name="TimeDean2022">{{cite news |last1=Dean |first1=Jonathan |title=Rod Stewart: pint-puller, HRT campaigner, pothole-filler |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/young-turk-rod-stewart-relatable-musician-hrt-potholes-latest-2x2l0nd6f |work=The Times |date=8 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

A car collector, Stewart owns one of the 400 [[Ferrari Enzo]]s. In 1982, Stewart was [[car-jacked]] on Los Angeles' [[Sunset Boulevard]] while he was parking his $50,000 [[Porsche]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rodstewartfanclub.com/about_rod/article/EEEukplkykxYNuyRiZ.php|title=About Rod|publisher=Rodstewartfanclub.com|access-date=2 January 2012}}</ref> The car was subsequently recovered. In March 2022, Stewart and others personally filled in some potholes on the country lane near his Essex residence, claiming that an ambulance had burst a tyre and his Ferrari could not get through. Dominic Zaria, one of Stewart's neighbours, praised the singer's action and said the lane had "a massive crack" and could be dangerous when it was dark and wet. In response, the county council cautioned that potholes should be reported and repaired by professionals, adding residents making their own repairs "could become liable for any problems or accidents".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gair |first1=Kieran |title=Rod Stewart fills in potholes to stop his Ferrari getting stuck |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/driving/article/sir-rod-stewart-tackles-potholes-on-country-lane-w6cqqh3dl |work=The Times |date=14 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

In September 2002, Stewart's son Sean was sentenced to three months in jail and required to pay compensation and attend anger management, drug and alcohol treatment courses for attacking a man outside a restaurant in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite news |last=Poole |first=Oliver |title=Rod Stewart's son given jail sentence for kicking stranger |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1407196/Rod-Stewarts-son-given-jail-sentence-for-kicking-stranger.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1407196/Rod-Stewarts-son-given-jail-sentence-for-kicking-stranger.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=17 June 2017 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=14 September 2002}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
Rod Stewart was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2007 New Year Honours]] for services to music. At his investiture in July 2007, at [[Buckingham Palace]], Stewart commented: "It's a marvellous occasion. We're the only country in the world to honour the common man."<ref name="BBC2007">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6897017.stm|title=Stewart rocks up to collect CBE|work=BBC News|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref> He was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2016 Birthday Honours]] for "services to music and charity".<ref name="knighted"/>

Stewart was estimated to have a fortune of £215 million in the ''[[Sunday Times Rich List]]'' of 2021, making him the 12th wealthiest person in the British music industry.<ref name="wealth">{{cite news |title=Sir Rod Stewart net worth — Sunday Times Rich List 2021 |url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/article/rod-stewart-net-worth-sunday-times-rich-list-vp7whjjgc |access-date=22 May 2021 |work=The Times |date=21 May 2021}}</ref> He lives with his wife in the [[Listed building#Grade II|Grade II listed]] Durrington House, a £4.65 million property in Essex.<ref name="wealth"/> During his time in California, he was previously the owner of the modernist [[Wave House]], said to have inspired [[Sydney Opera House]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Burke |first1=Kelly |title=California home thought to have inspired Sydney Opera House sells for US$20m less than asking price |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/sep/03/california-wave-house-sydney-opera-house-sale-harry-gesner-jorn-utzon |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=25 March 2025 |date=3 September 2024}}</ref>

During February 2023, it was announced that Stewart paid for a day's worth of MRI scans for patients at [[Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow|Princess Alexandra Hospital]] in [[Harlow]] in order to aid in reducing waiting lists.<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 February 2023 |title=Rod Stewart pays for scans at NHS hospital to cut waiting lists |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-64759060 |access-date=24 February 2023}}</ref>

===Relationships and family===

Stewart has eight children, by five mothers:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Duration !! Partner !! Child(ren) !! Note
|-
| 1963–1964 || Susannah Boffey<ref name=penny>Gannon, Louise. [https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/rod-stewart-i-burst-into-tears-when-penny-791737/ "Rod Stewart: I burst into tears when Penny said she was pregnant"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416163430/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/rod-stewart-i-burst-into-tears-when-penny-791737 |date=16 April 2021 }}, ''[[Daily Mirror]]'' (London), 1 November 2010.</ref> || Sarah Streeter<br />(born 1964) London<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rod Stewart Chose Adoption in 1964 |url=https://texasrighttolife.com/rod-stewart-chose-adoption-in-1964/ |access-date=30 January 2025| website=texasrighttolife.com |language=en}}</ref>
| Daughter Sarah was raised by her adoptive parents, Gerald and Evelyn Thubron.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12500132|title=Rod Stewart fathers eighth child|work=BBC News|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref>
|-
| 1965–1967 || Jennie Rylance || ||
|-
| 1971–1975 || Dee Harrington || ||
|-
| 1975–1977 || [[Britt Ekland]] || || Ekland stated in 1981 that she ended her relationship with Stewart because he was unfaithful.<ref>{{cite news |title='True Britt' is Ekland tell-all |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19810529&id=ZKwfAAAAIBAJ&pg=1301,4904733 |access-date=26 November 2019 |work=[[The Gadsden Times]] |date=29 May 1981}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" | '''First marriage'''<br />1979–1984 || rowspan="2" | {{Nowrap| [[Alana Stewart]]}} || [[Kimberly Stewart|Kimberly Alana Stewart]] (born 1979) || rowspan="2" | On 21 August 2011, daughter Kimberly gave birth to her first child, a daughter, with actor [[Benicio Del Toro]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/kimberly_stewart_benicio_del_toros_baby/264719|title=Benicio Del Toro & Kim Stewart Newborn's Future Secured|last=Garvey|first=Marianne|date=19 September 2011|publisher=[[E! News]]|access-date=19 September 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.usmagazine.com/momsbabies/news/kimberly-stewart-gives-birth-to-baby-girl-2011218|title=Kimberly Stewart Gives Birth to Baby Girl!|date=21 August 2011|journal=[[Us Weekly]]|access-date=21 August 2011}}</ref>
|-
| [[Sean Stewart (reality TV star)|Sean Roderick Stewart]] (born 1980)
|-
| 1983–1990 || [[Kelly Emberg]] || [[Ruby Stewart]] <br/>(born 1987) ||
|-
| rowspan="2" | {{Nowrap|'''Second marriage'''}}<br />1990–2006 || rowspan="2" | [[Rachel Hunter]] || Renee Cecili Stewart<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rachel Hunter and Rod Stewart's daughter Renee on rejecting fame|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/112544053/rachel-hunter-and-rod-stewarts-daughter-renee-on-rejecting-fame|first=Emily |last=Brookes|website=Stuff|date=7 May 2019|language=en|access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Rod Stewart Has One Big Family — Meet the Legendary Singer's 8 Kids|url=https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/rod-stewarts-children-meet-the-legendary-singers-8-kids/|date=4 January 2020|website=Closer Weekly|language=en-US|access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref> <br/>(born 1992) || rowspan="2" | Stewart and Hunter separated in 1999 and divorced in 2006. Son Liam played major [[junior ice hockey]] with the [[Spokane Chiefs]] of the [[Western Hockey League]], has played in the Elite Ice Hockey League with the Coventry Blaze and Guildford Flames, and plays professional hockey with the [[Milton Keynes Lightning]] of the United Kingdom's [[National Ice Hockey League#National League|National League]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/ice_hockey/15186524.stm|title=Young players key for Scottish ice hockey|first=Craig|last=Anderson|work=BBC Sport|date=5 October 2011|access-date=5 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=145188 |title=Liam Stewart hockey stats |work=Internet Hockey Database |access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref>
|-
| Liam McAlister Stewart (born 1994)
|-
| rowspan="2"|'''Third marriage'''<br/>Since 2007||rowspan="2"| [[Penny Lancaster|Penny Lancaster-Stewart]] || Alastair Wallace Stewart<ref name="msn.com">{{Cite web|title=Rod Stewart rings in the New Year with wife Penny Lancaster and six of his children|url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/rod-stewart-rings-in-the-new-year-with-wife-penny-lancaster-and-six-of-his-children/ar-BBYxUJX|website=Msn.com|access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref> (born 2005 in London) || rowspan="2" |The couple began dating in 1999 and married in the cloistered [[Cervara Abbey|medieval monastery La Cervara]] in [[Portofino]] on 16 June 2007 and honeymooned on board the yacht ''Lady Ann Magee'' moored in the Italian port of Portofino.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sansoni|first1=Silvia |last2=Perry|first2=Simon |url=https://people.com/celebrity/rod-stewart-marries-penny-lancaster-in-italy/|title=Rod Stewart Marries Penny Lancaster in Italy – Weddings, Rod Stewart|work=People|date=1 December 2020|access-date=6 May 2013}}</ref>
|-
|Aiden Patrick Stewart<ref name="msn.com"/> (born 2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/rod-stewart-welcomes-a-son/|title=It's a Boy for Rod Stewart|work=People|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref>
|}

In reference to his divorces, Stewart was once quoted as saying, "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/profiles/43421 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513020514/http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/profiles/43421 |url-status=dead |title=Rod Stewart|last=Smithies|first=Grant |date=28 October 2007|work=Sunday Star Times|access-date=24 June 2008|archive-date=13 May 2012}}</ref>

In January 2020, Stewart and his 39-year-old son Sean were arrested, and both were charged with battery following an incident at a Florida hotel.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/04/rod-stewart-charged-alleged-altercation-florida-hotel|title=Rod Stewart charged over alleged altercation at Florida resort|last=Thorpe|first=Vanessa|date=4 January 2020|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=5 December 2020}}</ref> The case was resolved in 2021, with both Stewarts pleading guilty to simple battery in a plea agreement that included no jail time, no probation, and no fine.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rock Icon Sir Rod Stewart, Son Resolve Florida Hotel Assault Case |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/rock-icon-rod-stewart-son-resolve-florida-hotel-assault-case/ |work=CBS |date=17 September 2021}}</ref>