Sir Rod’s ladies get their claws out

ROD STEWART claimed he ‘wasn’t bothered’ about being overlooked for a knighthood, after fellow ageing rockers Tom Jones and Mick Jagger were honoured. ‘Mick doesn’t pay taxes and Tom lives in America,’ he said.

Now Sir Rod’s got the gong, he’s made a song and dance about it. He used to be surrounded by groupies, but his third wife, ex-model Penny Lancaster, 45, gathered three of the 71-year-old’s eight children by five different women — daughters Renee, 24, Ruby, 28, and Kimberley, 36, plus Kimberley’s four-year-old daughter Delilah — for cocktails this week. Penny posted this snap showing the group posing as lions to show their ‘roaring pride’ in mane-haired ladies’ man Rod.