Penny Lancaster has claimed Mohammed Al-Fayed once offered her his sperm, in a shocking admission during Friday morning’s Loose Women.
The TV personality, 53, who at the time was trying for a baby with husband Sir Rod Stewart, revealed Al-Fayed joked she could have some of his sperm which he had kept ‘in the frozen food department at Harrods’ if they had ‘no luck’ getting pregnant.
More than 100 women are said to have accused the former Harrods owner of sexually abusing them during his 25-year reign of terror since a BBC documentary about his alleged attacks was aired – after he died in 2023 age 94.
Penny recalled the strange memory with panelists Jane Moore, Kaye Adams, Linda Robson and special guest Tom Bower.
She said: ‘My husband being Rod Stewart – him and myself were trying for a baby at the time. And he [Al-Fayed] would try and wink and nod and say “Here Rod, here’s some pills for you”.
‘And he [Al-Fayed] would hand over this little tablet box of what he said was Viagra which in the end it was mints and kept nudging and winking’.
She added: ‘And we sort of just laughed it off and carried on our way.
‘But then there was one really awkward moment where he said to me “Penny if you don’t have any luck there with him, you can always have some of my sperm, I keep it in the frozen food department at Harrods”.’
The Egyptian-born businessman is alleged to have carried out the attacks during his time in charge of the outlet between 1984 and its sale in 2010.
The corporation says more than 20 female former workers at Harrods have come forward to accuse him of sexual abuse and presiding over a ‘culture of fear’ at the department store.
Some of those involved claim they were coerced into undergoing invasive medical exams in which they were tested for sexually transmitted diseases, with the results being sent directly to Al-Fayed himself.
Harrowing details of the accusations, including vivid descriptions of the alleged rapes by the women, were shown on a new programme called Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods.
She also revealed she has banned her Sir Rod from attending Donald Trump’s parties.
Penny recalled going to the president’s soirées with the singer, 80, when they lived a few doors down to him in Florida.
The couple were neighbours with Trump, 78, in the exclusive Palm Beach area of Florida and have known each other for decades.
While admitting all ‘seemed fine’ at first at the parties, Penny said Trump started to ‘cross all sorts of boundaries’ when he began running for president again.
She said: ‘We used to go to parties hosted by him, he looked after all his guests… it seemed fine.
‘But when he began to run for president, I started to hear those dangerous rhetorics, I was just like “woah, this is crossing all sorts of boundaries here”.
‘From that point onwards I said to my husband we are not going anywhere near him again’.
Speaking in 2018 about his friendship with Trump, Sir Rod said: ‘I’ve known Trump for a long time. I’ve done concerts for him in his casinos.
‘I live probably three-quarters of a mile down the road from him on the beach in Florida.
‘He’s always been extremely nice to me. He’s let my friends use his golf course for nothing, and I’ve had no problems with him at all.
‘Is he a great president? Nah. I think his moral compass is way off.
‘But on the other hand the country’s doing extremely well, although I believe part of that was down to president Obama – the country was starting to do great anyway, he’s just carrying it on.’
It comes after Penny hit out at Gregg Wallace again amid a probe into the Celebrity MasterChef host’s alleged sexual misconduct.
In November, the Maggie May hitmaker issued a furious rant at Gregg calling him a ‘tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully’ for ‘humiliating’ his wife when she appeared on Celebrity MasterChef in 2021.
Penny later confessed that she had no clue her husband would be speaking out about the row and admitted it gave her the courage to open up.
Speaking at the time, she explained: ‘It is that bravery of “Maybe I am the only one? Maybe I won’t be taken seriously?” Then suddenly you have the backing and support of other people and you feel like you are going to be listened to.’
Penny hit out again, dubbing Wallace a ‘bad apple’ with a ‘bad core’.
Asked if her experience had put her off doing any more reality TV, Penny told MailOnline: ‘Not at all. The majority of the time, there are a lot of safeguarding put in place.
‘I have the most incredible time on Loose Women – I always do, and I feel very supported, and on Strictly Come Dancing, I had a fantastic time there.
‘Sometimes it’s just a bad apple, and that bad core needs to be removed.’
MailOnline contacted Gregg’s representatives for comment at the time.
Fans of the show will remember Penny leaving Celebrity MasterChef in tears in 2021 after Gregg told her off with the ‘serious’ delay of her food and then refused to eat it.
After she was eliminated from the show, she shared a cryptic post on Instagram hinting at ‘a person’s behaviour’.
She wrote on Instagram at the time: ‘When you finally learn that a person’s behaviour has more to do with their own struggle than it ever did with you, you learn grace.’
Following Gregg’s departure from the show, Stewart issued a furious rant, saying: ‘So Greg [sic] Wallace gets fired from Master Chef.’
‘Good riddance Wallace… You humiliated my wife when she was on the show, but you had that bit cut out didn’t you?’
‘You’re a tubby, bald-headed, ill-mannered bully. Karma got ya. Sir Rod Stewart.’
