Rod Stewart reveals transvestite encounter

LONDON, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- British singer Rod Stewart has revealed he once unwittingly brought a transvestite back to his hotel room, Sky News reported Monday.

"We were all in a bar and there was this gorgeous bird," Rod told Q magazine. "I thought, 'Why aren't any of the guys near her?' They'd set me up.

"So I took her back to my hotel, put my hand down there and there's the old (male genitals).

"I thought I was very good. I said, 'Look, I'm going to go to sleep -- you get that side and be gone in the morning.'"

Stewart also said he "felt fooled" when wife Rachel Hunter left him after a nine-year marriage, because he thought they'd be together forever.

"I was a silly bugger and I should have known. I was 45 and she was 21. I felt like I'd been fooled, but at the same time there was a sneaky feeling that the old man up there's got you back."

He said women shouldn't marry before 30 because they can be "very volatile."