Sir Rod Stewart has revealed he’s rented a home and paid the bills for a family of seven Ukrainian refugees.
He said that while he usually keeps his charitable efforts ‘nice and quiet’, he hopes to inspire others.
The It Takes Two hitmaker has rented a Berkshire home for Ukrainian couple Rostylsav and Olena and their five children for at least a year. Sir Rod, 77, said: ‘It just makes me want to do more. I am thinking of getting another house now and getting a lot more people over.’ ‘I usually keep all my charitable efforts nice and quiet and just do it. But I thought, ‘I am a knight, I have been given this knighthood because of the things I’ve achieved in my life and the charity work I’ve done over the years.’: ‘But that was the past; I want to be seen to be doing something now. I am a knight, I should be using my power to do something for people. I am sure that if there are people out there who see what I am doing, they will pick up some slack too.
‘This monumental honour has topped it off and I couldn’t ask for anything more. I thank Her Majesty and promise to “wear it well.”‘recently urging Western leaders to once again ramp up sanctions on Russian energy, to starve the ‘terrorist state’ of money to fund the war.
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