PENNY DROPPED FOR PLAYBOY ROD

Singer changed his wild ways to woo model wife

- BY MARK JEFFERIES

TRUE LOVE Rod and Penny with her new book; below, family

ROD Stewart would do anything for wife Penny Lancaster - and over the years he has proved that time and time again.

In her new book, Penny recalls how Rod quit drugs, U-turned on a vow not to have kids and even got down on the dodgy knee he damaged playing football to propose, when he had insisted he wouldn't walk down the aisle again.

Penny, 54, says in her memoir she doesn't like the phrase that she “tamed him” instead preferring to see Rod and their relationship as “nurtured”.

But he has certainly mellowed during their 26-year relationship.

Penny was upset he had been photographed with Caprice Bourret in Summer 1999, after they had been on some dates, and Rod had been reduced to calling her daily to woo her back.

As their relationship was still in its infancy, Penny told Rod: “If you want to date all these women go ahead, but just so we're clear it’s not for me.”