Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, 68, has had a storied history with women. In 2008 he left his then second wife of 23 years, Jo Frost, for a 19 year-old Russian cocktail waitress he met while on business in Ireland. He’s had ongoing drinking issues, particularly when he took up with the teenage waitress, and has been in rehab about seven times. In 2012 things settled down for him somewhat when he married a woman 31 years younger than him, now 37 year-old Sally Wood, who owns a theater production company. Sally has defended their relationship by saying that life is short, essentially. Ronnie has four children from his first two wives, with half of them older than his current wife: Jamie, 41, Jesse, 39, Leah, 37, and Tyrone, 32. Well now Ronnie won’t have to worry about all his kids being around his wife’s age because Sally is pregnant with twins, due in June. Surely he has grandkids who will be older than their aunt and/or uncles.
Ronnie Wood is going to be a father again! The 68-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist and his wife, Sally Humphreys, are expecting twins, according to a spokesperson for the band.
“Sally and Ronnie Wood are delighted to announce that they are expecting twins in June 2016,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “They are thrilled and overjoyed with the wonderful news.”
Wood and Humphreys, 37, were friends for nine years before they got married in London in December 2012.
In an interview last year, Sally said that they weren’t actively planning to have children but that she wanted them some day. She said that Ronnie had agreed and was up for it too. “He’s got a lot of friends that are older who have younger children and they all say it’s fantastic and it keeps you young.” Well congratulations? This reminds me of Tony Randall passing away at 83 and leaving behind sons aged 6 and 7 and a wife who was just 33. I mean this isn’t a 50 year age difference and Ronnie is 68, not 78, but still he’s a little long in the tooth for having babies. It’s like if my dad had kids with a woman my age. He’s not a rock star though.
He will be 90 at their 21st…. if he lives that long.
I can’t help but feel this is selfish of both of them. If you get with a guy in his late 60s especially one whose kids are the same age as you, then, you kind of have to make your peace with not having kids or having them and a big possibility that their father wont live to see them grow up.
*waits for people to shout at me*
Nah. It’s a valid point.
You’re right. It’s definitely not fair on the kids.
I totally agree with you.
IMO people should stop having children as soon as they are old enough to be the grandparent. Yes, people could die at any age but at some point it is not a possibility anymore but inevitable. When you’re old, you die. No matter if you still feel super young at 85 because of you 15 year old child.
@ Zip You can legally be a grandparent at 34 years old!
However, I don’t agree with anyone becoming a parent at 68. Not because it isn’t fair on his older kids, but because it isn’t fair on the ones he is expecting.
Well, obviously I was not talking about 34-year-olds. But in fact, I think that 40 is quite old to become a parent. (Sorry not sorry.) At that age you can be a grandparent without anyone having to be a teen mom or dad.
I know the world of celebs is a different beast but I look at my parents who are physically very healthy but are both over 65. They are fantastic with my niece but after a full day with her, are completely wiped running around after a 3 year old
right? this is exactly what I think too when I read these stories. my parents are both pushing 70 and they are on the floor after a day with my toddler and my preschool-aged niece and nephew. I’m 35 and I’m exhausted after a day with my kid, I can’t imagine doing it at 65 or 70.
I think considering his drinking history he probably won’t live that long. I’m mean a heavy drinker at 68 (And does he smoke)? I give him till 75
You’d be surprised the Stones drink from the fountain of youth, or something like that. Keith Richards should be dead, 100 times over by your logic. Thank God he’s not!!!
All The Stones defy all medical science. She’s knocked up now so best of british to them, I say. Either way Ronnie seems like a good laugh.
Our celebs don’t live our pedestrian lives which is what sets us apart I suppose.
ita, i think it is selfish and narcissistic on both their parts
+1000000000000000000000000000000000
Indifferent to the age gap, it’s more the eww factor of having to maintain all that and how many times he’s been *maintained* over the years. If you’re going to be married to a sectarian rock star might as well insure yourself with kids. But eww.
No shouting you out. You hit the nail on the head. Selfish and frankly, cruel.
I think it’s a really cruel thing to do to a child.
Wouldn’t dream of shouting at you – I agree with you 100%!
Urgh…
Just about sums it up. Though I might add a “good luck with that”.
I want to know Keith’s reaction to this.
Well according to the Fail he is super proud of himself and is telling everyone it’s good to know that even though he’s old ‘he’s not firing blanks’
I feel bad for his ex wife Jo. She really put up with a lot of crap from him for so many years and did her best to keep him healthy. He just seemed to coldly dump her with not a fond word said about her.
He seems sober these days. Older men having kids doesn’t shock me any more. ANd anyone marrying a rocker should know that they are likely the starter wife, Though i did hear a podcast with Stevie Van Zant’s wife (from the E sTREET BAND) yesterday, They have been married for 33 years, together for 38. No kids. Percy Sledge sang her down the aisle, Brice Springsteen was best man. Little Richard officiated. Crazy! She said that the secret was that even though they have been married for a long time, they have probably just spent half of that together because he was touring so much and she had her own career going on. Some can make that work out. Maybe she turned a blind eye to cheating? I just don’t believe a rocker won’t cheat if he has people throwing themselves at him and his wife isn’t around…
Little Richard officiating! I’m so jealous. Just picturing that makes me happy!
Yeah, it’s wild. She seems so blase about it. She talked about being friends with Jimmy Hendrix too. Now that would be really wild!
Maureen Van Zandt is awesome, love her. The Hendrix connection is from her dating the amazing Mitch Mitchell.
I liked how she more or less admitted that she and her friend were groupies, and that every woman would have hung out with those guys if they could. Access to celebs was so much easier back then. They just hung out in Greenwich village where all the musicians would come and hang out after gigs.
She also gave some background gossip from the Sopranos set. No names mentioned but she did admit there was some jealousy/comments made to her from some of the other women in the cast about her getting the role of Silvio’s wife, even though she went and auditioned like everyone else. She said James Gandolfini was the nicest guy ever but was scary when he was in character and that he really beat himself up playing that role. She said Edie was very nice, very professional, no BS type of actress who seemed to be able to slip in and out of character seamlessly. Amazing that they were two such dramatically different sort of actors yet they were perfect on screen and got on so well.
Maureen is awesome, ive chatted with her a bit on twitter. She seems very down to earth and real. Sometimes i have to pinch myself that i am talking to the wife of an E Street member (huge Bruce fan!)
Good grief!
I hope they know what they
Are doing. . .
I honestly can’t stand it when men do this, have kids when they’re well over 60. It’s so unfair to the child because while any parent could be run over by a car tomorrow, at that age you’re putting the kid in a position where they will worry about your age as soon as they understand how frickin’ old you really are.
Also, pretty much gaurantee major trauma in the child’s pre-adulthood life.
All I can say is that is a very rough looking 68 year old. Glad he cleaned up and got sober.
This. It’s not even that he simply looks old – he just looks… damaged. Like a walking corpse. People with regular lifestyles don’t look like this at any age. Even some people who used to live a similar lifestyle don’t look like this – David Bowie is 68 too, but he wisened up at the right time and it shows. For the sake of those children – I hope Ronnie wisened up for good too, at last.
From the very shallow stand-point – I can’t even think about the conception of said twins without gagging.
yes. he looks like the drugs really got to him. she looks like a thinner and younger monica lewinsky.
Ugh.
YUCK YUCK YUCK
Just Gtoss
“Well now Ronnie won’t have to worry about all his kids being around his wife’s age”
he is a smart one, isnt he?
i admire the determination of her, to have sex with a guy looking like that.
Right? Imagine waking up next to him. His face looks really scary. O_o
Perhaps he puts a bag over his head?
@spidey. –he needs a total body bag, though.
Yes, there is a big difference between anything can happen to anyone and the inevitability that is death in old age.
Obviously the kids will be well taken care of financially but shees! Imagine being the kid and realizing your father was of retirement age when you were born and died before you got into middle school.
So Charlie Watts is the only one who has not become a cliché, right?
Yep. Still married to the same woman, I believe.
Keith has been married for a long time, too.
So, yes, those two are the wise grey haired old men.
And it’s come to that, Keith called a wise grey haired old man. If that’s the rod we’re going to measure this by, it is a colossally bad idea……….
Ronnie Wood is a disgustinly selfish man.
When the children will be in their twenties then Wood will be either in his nineties or likely already dead.
That wasn’t mother nature’s idea of parenthood! Parents should ideally live long enough for their children to grow up. Preferably parents should become grandparents because the latter do still have a seriously positive effect on their grandchildren’s health and well-being.
Unfortunately Mother Nature is the one who determined that men can still father children well into their 70’s while women have society screaming into their faces that they probably can’t have kids past the age of 35 so better get cracking!
Yes, men can technically father children even when they are old, but this doesn’t mean it’s the best thing to do. There are studies on the subject: the genome of an elderly father is not as healthy as that of a young father , so it is easier for children to be born with problems. Among other things , it seems that people with elderly father suffer more easily from depression. it is time to dismantle the myth that men can have healthy children at any age .
not really…
Men have a great decrease in fertility past their 40s it is now very well documented … the ones who have them are either forces of nature ( like chaplin )and as rare as that … or running to almost daily to the fertility clinic ( or even resorting to sperm donors)… but shhhh don’t tell it doesn’t go well with the tale of the never-ending male fertility…
Nature intended young parents indeed, in both genders
I come from an extremely patriachal, polygamous culture where men in their 70s are still taking wives and it is not unusual for them to have kids into their 90s. Roar for men? Nope, because its also well known that most young wives keep lovers on the side. So the smug idiotic old men are almost certainly raising younger mens kids – knowing this now gives me much joy.
@Naya: LOL!
Awesome knowledge, Naya. 🙂 🙂
Well, yeah, but to have a kid with him, you’d have to sleep with him. Based on the face, I would not want to see that guy naked! So will there be a payoff or is this true love?
@ Trashaddict
The lady played it well: officially married + child. She will get lots of money. And if she has another child with him … even more.
I don’t think it is true love.
Or perhaps true love for bucks and a career push.
so given Ronnie Woods inclinations towards drugs then we might assume he is the father legally. But biologically?
I totally agree: this is pure selfishness!
Ronnie Wood is a sh*theel but nothing he does surprises me.
The kids are for her, I am sure. She at least will probably be around. And Ronnie will hopefully have some money left to leave them.
I suppose everyone should be thankful he married someone responsible and sober and didn’t impregnate the nineteen year old waitress while on a bender.
I am not an ageist and I believe that everyone has a right to experience life; including to procreate, but there is a huge difference between having a baby at 45/47/48 and one at 68. This is truly not fair to these children and they most likely will not have their father there at their high school graduation. There needs to be common sense here and an age cut-off for choices like this.
Yes, he might live to 95 and his kids would be 27, but the reality is very slim that he will be an active 95 year old with his lifestyle. All the money in the world does not replace a parent.
In this day and age where so many Fathers are absent in their childrens lives, I don’t think it’s any more of a risk having children with an elderly man. At least they will be well provided for in the divorce.
Agreed. I feel that to set up a paradigm where one musn’t procreate at a certain age sets up a concomitant…expectation or maybe even entitlement…that if you do it “right, everything will work out. And we know that isn’t the case. At a minimum this man’s children will have financial support and what appears to be a reasonable mother. Much better than many.
That’s generally how I feel about it too. The kid will grow up privileged and hopefully, loved and wanted by his/her (ZIR???) parents so she/he is already a step ahead of a lot of kids.
That being said, I would not want to be in her position–not for the world.
She’s very commited to her gold digging. Ugh. I hope the children are healthy.
That hair – he looks like a deranged muppet.
Write to Jim Henson’s son, if he’s around. That character is a must!
They look ridiculous together.
He looks like a living corpse.
Her smile in these pictures is screaming “cha-ching!”
I could never have sex with him (or Mick Jagger) even if he is rich, nice, famous, funny, or whatever. I just couldn’t do it unless maybe me and my children were starving to death, but even then it with have to be if there really wasn’t any other choice.
I wouldn’t f%ck him for all the tea in China……
From what I’ve read she doesn’t seem like the gold digging type and they seem genuinely in happy together (I know it’s pretty hard for me to make a call on that but he had settled down a hell of a lot since he met her and she seems pretty grounded) . I think the kids are most likely to keep her happy. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be 10 and have an 78 year old dad tho.
My parents were 43 and 61. Yes my dad did die when I was 30 and he was 90 but I don’t feel like I’m missing something in my life. My parents had adult children yes before me but they were easy and fun parents. Young parents are not a guarantee you’ll have them a long time or healthy. Is it likely? sure…..but not a guarantee. I know 3 people my age who have lost a parent at a young young age and much younger than mine.
They’re both old enough to do the math and I’m sure she is prepared to be a single parent when he dies and also to do the heavy lifting parentally while he is alive. She wanted children, this is nicer than an anonymous sperm donor. They seem to have been friends for quite a while first. Children are pretty flexible if they know they are loved. A lot of children are very close to and even raised by their grandparents, and have to deal with a grandparent’s death. That doesn’t mean they would be better off adopted out to younger parents instead. Sometimes a few good years can last you a lifetime.
We don’t hesitate to have cats and dogs in the family who have short lifespans, but just enjoy them while we can. It’s hard when they die, but life would be so much less without them.