This Wheel’s on Fire
Don’t miss Penny on Episode 14 of BBC’s Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel on Saturday night
Michael McIntyre hosts as Dermot O’ Leary, Penny Lancaster, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Judi Love, Michael Vaughan, Craig Revel Horwood and Nikki Fox try to help this week’s contestants win a life-changing sum.
22 January 2022
59 minutes
Pandemic Art
As you know we love to show you the very best Rod art here on SMILER and this week we have not one but two fabulous creations featuring Rod the first is by California based Ron Bearce who told SMILER this week..
“I’ve been a big Rod Stewart fan since I was a kid and have always loved his look.
Rod’s early album of “Every Picture Tells a Story“ is the perfect title for my painting here. I wanted to paint the story of his career of uplifting music and beautiful art.
It was fun to pick a challenge of him pointing at me encouraging me to do a great job representing him. This was one of my first large paintings, as well! I learned to paint on my own during the pandemic, hoping I could also uplift people during our common challenging times. Positive artists and activists like Rod Stewart are the subjects which I have been painting portraits of.“
For more information on Ron’s artwork go to https://bearceartistry.com/portfolio
Blondes Cover
The second is a fantastic drawing of Rod from the Blondes Have More fun cover by Julie Lyon from Boston, MA who told SMILER this week
“The drawing was done for a woman I know who is a huge fan of Rod Stewart, has seen him in concert many times. She wanted this image drawn of him from the Blondes Have More Fun record, which i used as a reference. It’s done in colored pencil, 12” x 12”.”
For more information on Julie’s work go to https://juliebirdshop.com/
COPS
Penny is patron of Care of Police Survivors (COPS) a charity that supports the families of police officers and staff who have lost their lives on duty. and will be attending the COPS Winter Ball 2022 – a wonderful evening of fine food, great company, live music and extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime auction lots – to raise vital money for the charity, it is the only UK charity that solely supports the families of police officers and staff that die on duty.
This year’s Winter Ball is on Saturday 5 February at the iconic National Memorial Arboretum and is sponsored by Shared Services Connected Limited.
Tickets cost just £55 each or save 10% and buy a table of 10 for £500. All the money raised from ticket sales and the auction will go directly to help the families to rebuild their shattered lives. For more information on or to donate to COPS go to https://ukcops.org/
Ronnie Wood stamp
Ronnie Wood was featured on his own UK postage stamp this week as part of The Rolling Stones 60th Anniversary collection
Posting on his Facebook page Ronnie said “This is such an unexpected honour!” and posted the picture we used as our main picture
Check out the new collection of Stones Royal Mail stamps here https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/rolling-stones?cid=CM0122_STO_OS_03