For Years, Yungblud’s Grandma Told Him Rod Stewart Was His Grandpa

You can say a lot of things about Yungblud, but a nepo-baby he ain’t, regardless of the lie his own grandmother used to tell him about Rod Stewart being his grandfather.

This week, the young rockstar was a guest on Capital FM on Tuesday (Oct. 21), and during the interview, he shed some light on why he believed the “Maggie May” singer was his biological grandfather for the first several years of his life.

“So, basically, my mum never had a dad,” he explained. “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 say that Rod Stewart was my grandfather for, like, my formative years.” Laughingly, he added, “So up to about 9 years old, I thought Rod Stewart was my grandad.”

Finally, one day while they were in the grocery store,