Rod Stewart surprises staff at Scottish hotel with £10,000 tip after New Year’s stay

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Staff at a hotel in Perthshire have been delighted over the New Year interval after they obtained a £10,000 Hogmanay tip from none aside from Sir Rod Stewart.

The “Maggie May” singer rang in 2024 at Gleneagles Hotel, a luxurious residency with three golf programs, a spa and a two Michelin star restaurant, with his spouse Penny Lancaster Stewart and their two sons.

After staying at the five-star hotel, Stewart, 78, left staff a hefty £10,000 tip as a thanks – alongside with a tip concerning the Scottish nationwide soccer crew.

“I’ve been lucky enough to stay in some of the top hotels in the world and the service at Gleneagles is second to none,” he instructed The Daily Record.

“The staff do a terrific job at a very hectic time of the year and deserve every penny. It’s Scottish hospitality at its very best.”

Stewart added: “I advised the boys and girls at Gleneagles to invest the money wisely: stick the lot on Scotland to win the Euros.”

Stewart’s father got here from Edinburgh, and was a life-long supporter of the Celtic and the Scottish nationwide crew.

The musician and his spouse had watched Celtic play on Saturday (30 January), with the pair celebrating with cocktails within the hotel’s bar because the crew beat Rangers 2-1.

Lancaster Stewart additionally posted a photograph to Instagram of her husband and sons in matching kilts, which she captioned: “First ever #hogmanay boys are proud of their Scottish heritage.”

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Stewart’s act of kindness closed off a yr through which he paid for scans for sufferers at his native NHS hospital in February in an effort to lower ready occasions.

In January, the singer known as right into a reside phone-in section on Sky News to criticise the federal government’s dealing with of the NHS disaster, throughout which he supplied to donate cash for medical scans after listening to tales of prolonged NHS ready lists.

“I personally have been a Tory for a long time but I think this government should stand down now and give the Labour Party a go, this is heartbreaking,” he mentioned.

The following month, Stewart visited Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex, the place he’d paid for the scans. Stewart mentioned that he’d come by to ““prove I’m not all mouth and trousers”.

He defined: “I had just come from my scan in a private clinic near Harley Street. I walked in and said, ‘I’m terribly sorry, I’m half hour late.’ They said, ‘Don’t worry, there’s hardly anybody in here today. There were eight people with hardly anything to do.’ Then I thought this is a terrible injustice, so here we are.”

The rocker mentioned he wish to pay for scans elsewhere too, saying: “If this is a big success, which I think it will be, I’d like to do it in Belfast, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, and just keep it going, and hope some other people follow me.”