Throughout the years, Rod Stewart has been subjected to serious shade over his thrifty ways. Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie Wood is among those who have commented on his tight purse strings. “My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I’m shrewd. Some people may call me tight,” the singer told Esquire in November 2013. “My old pal Ronnie Wood loves making jokes about it. ‘Tight as two coats of paint,’ he calls me. Tight as two coats of paint!”
Stewart’s ex-girlfriend, Britt Eckland, also had something to say on the subject. The Swedish model dated him for two years back in the 1970s, but he left a lasting impression — albeit for the wrong reasons. “I had to pay $100 a month board and lodgings when I was living with him,” Eckland claimed in an interview with the Mail On Sunday in January 2020. “I would go shopping with him and watch him buy clothes from Yves Saint Laurent, but nothing for me.”
To dispel the rumors, Stewart majorly splashed the cash on New Year’s Eve 2023. He left a whopping $10,000 tip for the staff who served him, his wife Penny Lancaster, and their sons, Alastair and Aiden Stewart, during a Hogmanay at the five-star Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. “I advised the boys and girls at Gleneagles to invest the money wisely – stick the lot on Scotland to win the Euros,” he told the Daily Record.
