Veteran singer, Rod Stewart becomes a ‘Grandfather’

Rod Stewart has turned into a grandfather for the first time following his daughter Kimberly gave birth to a baby girl in Los Angeles.

According to the US Weekly that expert singer Stewart, 66, was at the hospital for the birth.

It was pronounced previous this year that actress, reality TV star and model Stewart, 32, was pregnant with Oscar-winning actor Benicio Del Toro's baby, but that the couple were no longer together.

A spokesman for Del Toro, 44, said in April: ''though (he and Kimberly) are not a couple, they are pleased to the arrival of the baby.''

A source told Us Weekly that rocker Stewart's wife Penny Lancaster and Alana Collins, who is Kimberly's mother and Stewart's first wife, were also at the hospital during the birth on Sunday.

The baby, who is so far to be named, weighed 8lb 9oz, US Weekly said.

In February Stewart became a father for the eighth time after wife Penny Lancaster gave delivery to their son Aiden.

The pair told how they went through three rounds of IVF before Miss Lancaster, 39, ultimately became pregnant.

The couple have been together for above a decade. They were married in 2007 in Italy just outside Portofino, making Miss Lancaster Stewart’s third wife.

Aiden is the star’s eighth child. Aside from Alastair, who was imagined logically, the newborn joins Kimberley, 30, and Sean, 29, from the singer’s first marriage to Alana Stewart.

Stewart went on to have another daughter, Ruby, 23, with girlfriend Kelly Emberg. He then had Renee, 18, and son Liam, 15, with former wife, model Rachel Hunter.

He also has daughter Sarah Streeter, 46, who he fathered early on in his profession with art student Susannah Boffey and who was raised by adoptive parents.