{"id":426953,"date":"2026-02-15T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426953\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:57:08","slug":"penny-lancaster-hints-at-plans-to-quit-uk-in-emotional-rod-stewart-admission-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/426953\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Lancaster hints at plans to quit UK in emotional Rod Stewart admission | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Maggie May hitmaker proposed during a trip to Paris in 2005 and they got married in Portofino, Italy, in 2007. Just last year they took a yacht around the Caribbean to mark Rod\u2019s 80th birthday surrounded by their closest family members. But it is an African nation that Penny says has her \u201cheart and soul\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

On the LNER Routes podcast Penny revealed she even jokes to sons Alastair, 19, and Aiden, 14, that she is \u201cgoing to end up there\u201d. Penny said: \u201cTanzania, that\u2019s one place that really\u2026my heart and soul is there<\/p>\n

\u201cI said to the boys when we got to take them there the second time round, \u2018If you ever want to know where mum is going to end up, this is the place.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked what she enjoys about the country, Penny replied: \u201cIt\u2019s the culture, and the light, as a photographer it\u2019s stunning. I first went with Rod, before I had children, and I remember him etching a heart and our initials into a tree.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore he said I love you he wrote it in a tree. So it was all very romantic. It was like those movies, kind of whisked away in your safari outfits across the Serengeti, and we said when we do have children, we must take them back and we did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to learn about the local tribes and the schools and my eldest would love to go back. Not just for the animals but just, it really touched him too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Penny and Rod reportedly stopped at the luxurious Mwiba Lodge when they visited the east African nation with their family. The property is said to be set in a 51,000-acre wildlife reserve.<\/p>\n

As well as taking in Mount Kilimanjaro and the Serengetti, Penny says the family had a chance to learn about the Mwiba tribe.\u00a0 During the trip, Penny shared a photo of herself encountering an elephant while on safari.<\/p>\n

Writing in The Times, she described her trips to Tanzania as \u201cthe best\u201d. She continued: \u201cWe stayed at the Mwiba Lodge and visited the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, flew over Mount Kilimanjaro, and got up early each morning to watch the animals at sunrise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was wonderful. Rod and I had been on safari before we had kids, so the best bit was seeing it through our sons\u2019 eyes. They were blown away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penny will be joining Alan Titchmarsh on Love Your Weekend from 9.30am on ITV One. She will be a guest on the show alongside Olympian Max Whitlock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maggie May hitmaker proposed during a trip to Paris in 2005 and they got married in Portofino,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,68011,156637,24105,33449,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-426953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-penny-lancaster","11":"tag-relocation-plans","12":"tag-rod-stewart","13":"tag-tanzania","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}