Yungblud spent first 10 years of his life thinking Rod Stewart was his grandad – Sir Rod then responded

October 21, 2025 9

Yungblud has spoken again about how he grew up believing that he was the grandson of Rod Stewart, until he discovered one of the singer’s albums in Asda.

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The Doncaster singer previously opened up about the story on the UK morning chat show Lorraine, last year.

Now he has spoken about it again in a new interview on The Capital Evening Show with Jimmy Hill.

“So basically, my mum never had a dad. My nan was always a very imaginative lady, and my nan would lie to me. She’d put me in a foot bath and lie to me and said that Rod Stewart was my grandfather for, like, my formative years,” Yungblud said.

“So up to about nine years old, I thought Rod Stewart was my grandad. Until I was in Asda, right, I was doing the weekly shop with my nan, and I remember by the checkout I picked up a Rod Stewart CD…”

He went on: “It was like proper quivering lip, like, ‘Nan, when’s granddad coming home?’ And everyone at the checkout started laughing, started laughing at us, knowing that they caught my grandmother in a blatant lie! And that was the day I found out Rod Stewart was not in fact my grandfather.”

This time, Yungblud also revealed that Stewart has since been in touch with him on Instagram.

“He says, ‘Alright my wee grandson!’ And I was like, ‘Rod Stewart, man. He’s got the bants!’”

Elsewhere, Dom Harrison recently got into a spat with The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins and Dan Hawkins.

The fracas began after the band’s guitarist called Yungblud’s performance paying tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt at the MTV VMAs “another nail in the coffin of rock n roll”. He also called Harrison, as well as his fellow performers “a bunch of bellends”.

Justin Hawkins later expanded on Dan’s comments on his YouTube channel, describing the performance as “rock n’ roll seen through an Instagram filter of some sort” and adding: “Yungblud seems to have positioned himself as a natural heir to the Ozzy legacy, having nothing to do with the really important stuff.”

In response, Harrison described his critics as “bitter and jealous”, explaining: “They are doing the things they say we are doing – they’re trying to insert themselves into a conversation to obtain some kind of relevancy, on the back of us honouring one of the greatest rock stars that ever lived – and then they talk about authenticity and stuff like that.”

Justin Hawkins then clarified his comments about Yungblud’s authenticity as a rock star, saying he never “intended to incite a feud” and emphasised that “it’s OK to be a bit sceptical.”

Meanwhile, Harrison also recently came to the defence of Taylor Swift during an interview with Bill Maher.

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Written by: Brady Donovan

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