Rod says to bury him in the garden... Bubbles our cavapoo is there already

PENNY LANCASTER ON LIFE, DEATH AND FUTURE TV PLANS

- BY GEMMA CALVERT and SHELLEY SPADONI

Sir Rod Stewart might have no intention of retiring but it seems he has already planned his funeral, telling wife Penny Lancaster to bury him in the garden.

And the rock star, 80, would be joining another loved one on the plot as the couple's treasured cavapoo, Bubbles, has a grave there.

Sir Rod makes the revelation as he and Penny welcome the BBC's Anita Rani into Durrington House, their sprawling Essex mansion, for an episode of My Life At Christmas.

Viewers will see the singer pointing out a temple in the garden where he intends to be laid to rest.

Penny says of it: "You don't want to talk about the end, but he's like, 'Look, it happens to all of us'.

"He always says, 'I've had the best life ever and if it ended tomorrow, I wouldn't have complaints'.

"But his sister's 97 this year. Why wouldn't he go to 100?"

And speaking of future plans, the Loose Women panellist jokes: "Maybe we'll have a family cemetery, then it has to be in the deed of the property. You buy the property, you have to maintain the cemetery of the Stewarts!"

Along with a resting place for her and her husband, Penny revealed she has other plans for their 46-acre plot in Sheering.