This week’s no news and gossip

Have I got no news for you

Funny start to this week when Rod refused to let the BBC show Have I Got News For You show his picture. The show returned this week as the panellists reviewed the biggest stories of the week. But, host Jess Phillips admitted Sir Rod Stewart turned down a request from the BBC to appear on the show in photo form.

Rod was part of a segment where the presenters had to guess the odd one out in a picture. He appeared alongside Emperor Nero, Alexander the Great, and Henry Ford. Guest host Jess then explained what the link was: “The answer is they’ve all built a city apart from Emperor Nero who was accused of destroying the city of Rome.” This was in reference to the model city Rod had built around his railway layout.

Jess asked the panelists Ian Hislop, Paul Merton, Hannah Fry, and John Richardson: “What did Sir Rod Stewart spend 26 years building?” They got the answer right that it was his model railway when Hannah asked: “Have you got a picture of it?” Jess replied: “We asked Sir Rod if we could use a picture of it and he said no.”

In a strange twist to this story SMILER was also contacted by Have I Got News For You as they wanted to feature our fan club magazine on this weeks show in a ‘Missing Word’ round where newspaper headlines from the week are read out with a vital word missing for the panel to guess the word which has been removed. It is tradition for a guest publication to be featured alongside this. and the show wanted to include SMILER in this feature, we knew nothing about Rod turning them down but also decided not to proceed with the request.

Pictured above is the first picture of the new issue 100 that will be ready to be sent out very soon!

Durrington House

As Rod and Penny put the finishing touches to the Durrington House Christmas tree in Essex, Ray Guselli sent us this fantastic painting of the House at Christmas, we thought it was just stunning!

Photo Penny Lancaster Instagram

Rocking Around The Christmas Tree

On Saturday night Rod and Penny headed out for a night on the town at The Arts Club in Mayfair but before setting off they gave their Instagram followers a treat by showing off their festive dance moves to Rod’s hit Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?Rocking around their impressive Christmas tree, the duo were quick to find their rhythm, busting their moves in almost perfect sync.

Lady Christmas

Photo Instagram

Penny revealed on Mondays Loose Women that she dresses up as Lady Christmas to cheer up Rod Stewart as he is not a big fan of Christmas.

Penny told her fellow presenters that Rod was not fond of the holiday period so she often dons the costume while wrapping presents.

Penny explained: ‘Rod doesn’t love Christmas. He can’t wait till the decorations are down and his house is back to normal. Just to lift his mood I put a little Father… Lady Christmas on. It puts a big smile on his face.’

Laughing, co-host Charlene White said: ‘Do you wear that on Christmas Eve?’

Penny replied: ‘When I’m wrapping presents, yeah.’

Carol concert or Praying The Night Away

Rod arriving at St Luke’s church photo Pete Chow

Rod performed a fantastic three song set at The Nordoff Robbins Christmas Carol Service in London on Tuesday evening. he wore a festive red blazer for the occasion held at St Luke’s church and also wore silver pointed boots and blue circular glasses during his latest performance, Rod later compared boots with Cellist Gabriella Swallow. We wont spoil it by saying what he sang, in case you haven’t seen the clips yet and are watching on Sunday night, but watch for a great duet with Imelda May.

For more information go to https://carols.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/

Photo Thanks to Gabriella Swallow

Pop Art

We love to show you the latest Rod art work at SMILER and here is a great pop art portrait of Rod by Adam Turkel who says From 1968-1976 few could touch Rod The Mod as a Rock n’ Roll singer. He’s one of the all time greats as far as I’m concerned. I’ve had “Hey Rod Stewart!” thrown at me as some kind of an insult occasionally over the years depending on the state of my bouffant…cool by me…I take it as a compliment of the highest order!

Adam produces prints and T-Shirts of his artwork , The Rod art work is from his Sharpie range, Speaking to SMILER this week Adam said ” Lifelong Faces/Rod fan right here. One of the greatest R’n’R singers of all time…best hair too! Love Rod! Hero and legend”.

To see more of Adams work go to https://www.instagram.com/adamtpopartist/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/thenewbrutarians/

And to buy his merchandise go to https://adamtpopartist.com/

Chart news

Rod is still hanging on to the tenth spot in this weeks chart