Rod Stewart claims his big nose was the reason he bedded so many women across his career.
The Maggie May singer famously revealed he took so many ladies to bed, he had lost count - but insists the only thing he's not proud of is the infidelity.
The Hoops-daft star bragged: “I have been very lucky, because I don’t really think I am that attractive, but I must have something about me.
“Maybe it is the old nose.”
Despite boasting about his bed-hopping, the reformed womaniser added he wasn’t proud of his infidelities in the past.
He made the admission when he was reminded in a US TV interview about doing the dirty with actress Kelly Le Brock, 62, in the 1980s while still with his model then-girlfriend Kelly Emberg, also now 62.
Rod told Bill Maher on the comic’s Real Time show: “Let me tell you – looking back, it was nothing to be proud of… seriously.”
As the US host giggled, Rod urged: “Stop it.”
The rock veteran was also quizzed over boasting in his 2013 memoir about having sex in the toilet at the Dome restaurant in LA between courses.
The former Small Faces singer insisted: “You are exaggerating. I don’t think I ever did that.”
When Bill reminded him it was in his autobiography, Rod coyly confessed: “I am sort of embarrassed about what I did and sort of proud. It was a totally different era.”
In a Q&A session at the British Film Institute in 2018, Rod was asked about how female fans were treated in the late 1960s, early 1970s, when he was in the Small Faces with Ronnie Wood.
He said: “Women literally used to throw themselves at us. It really was, ‘Oh not again tonight, Ronnie’.
“It has changed. I can only speak from my perspective but as a rock and roll singer, I used to show off with the girls.”
But he said he always behaved like a gentleman. He added: “I would never touch a girl unless she wanted me to.
“Things have changed. You could get away with a bit more in those days than you can now and things have changed for the good.”
Rod, who has eight kids by five different women, has bragged he bedded so many women he lost count.
At the height of his fame, he admits he was sleeping with so many models he "got bored".
He said: "Sex at one point was beginning to be boring, late 80s, early 90s, always flying in models left, right and centre.
"One would arrive, the other would leave. It just became I was getting lonely.
"I thought, 'you've got everything - women, great success, kids' - but there wasn't a devotion to, someone I could be devoted to, so I got bored of it."
However, now Rod has put his womanising days behind him and has been with Penny Lancaster for over two decades.
The couple met in 1999, and wed in 2007.
They have two kids together, Alasdair, 16, and Aiden, 10.
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