Rod Stewart Once Drew 'Penises' on British Boy Band McFly Members' Passports, They Recall: 'He Thought It'd Be Funny'

Danny Jones of McFly said a U.S. customs agent didn't find Stewart's dirty prank quite as funny at the time

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Rod Stewart Once Drew 'Penises' on British Boy Band McFly Members' Passports, They Recall: 'He Thought It'd Be Funny'

Danny Jones of McFly said a U.S. customs agent didn't find Stewart's dirty prank quite as funny at the time

TheImageDirect.com Rod Stewart in 2024

TheImageDirect.com Rod Stewart in 2024

Rod Stewart's many talents include amateur doodler.

In a clip shared on Monday, Dec. 2 from the Australian show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, musician Danny Jones shared that the "Forever Young" singer once pranked him and his McFly bandmates by covering their faces on their passports with crude drawings.

After both appearing on The Late, Late Show together, Stewart, 79, offered to give McFly (made up of Jones, 38, Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd) a ride on his jet back to London.

The band would only be in town for one night since they were heading on tour to North and South America, Jones mentioned. Upon getting onboard, Stewart asked the band for their passports and held onto them until they landed.

Matthew Baker/Getty Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones of McFly in 2021

Matthew Baker/Getty Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones of McFly in 2021

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"He got in his Rolls-Royce, got our passports back and gave them to our tour manager. All the Visas were sorted, everything was sorted for America and South America," Jones said on the ITV program.

He added, "And because I told him that story, he thought it'd be funny to draw penises on our heads on our passports!"

Upon arriving at immigration in the United States, the customs agent was not impressed. "You think this is funny?" Jones recalled getting asked.

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"No, no, no! Rod Stewart literally drew a penis on our heads!" he explained at the time. Jones, Fletcher and Poynter's passports had the crude doodles, while Judd's was spared.

Per The Independent, the band eventually applied for new passports.

Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Rod Stewart in 2024

Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Rod Stewart in 2024

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Stewart recently announced that he would be performing at Glastonbury in June 2025, making him one of the oldest people to play there.

The singer, who will be 80 by the time he performs at the U.K. festival, said on social media that he is "proud and ready and more than able to take the stage again to pleasure and titillate my friends at Glastonbury in June."