Samantha Fox

Samantha Karen Fox born 15 April 1966 is an English pop singer and former glamour model from Wood Green in North London She has appeared on reality television shows and has occasionally worked as a television presenter and actress Fox began her glamour modelling career at age 16 After she placed second in a Sunday People amateur modelling contest The Sun recruited her to pose for Page 3 where she made her first appearance in February 1983 Named The Suns Page 3 Girl of the Year for 1984 1985 and 1986 she became one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s and a notable sex symbol of the era She left Page 3 in 1986 aged 20 to focus on pop music but made occasional glamour modelling appearances thereafter notably featuring in a 1996 Playboy pictorial In 2008 she was voted the top Page 3 model of all time Released in March 1986 Foxs debut single for the Jive Records label Touch Me I Want Your Body became a top10 hit across Europe North America and Australia reaching number one in several countries Her first three studio albumsTouch Me 1986 Samantha Fox 1987 and I Wanna Have Some Fun 1988all produced international hit singles and she was nominated in the British Female Solo Artist category at the Brit Awards 1988 Her subsequent albumsJust One Night 1991 21st Century Fox 1997 and Angel with an Attitude 2005were less successful but she has continued to tour and has announced a forthcoming seventh studio album produced by Ian Masterson In her early career Fox dated men including Peter Foster the Australian fraudster and Paul Stanley the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of rock band Kiss Following persistent rumours in the 1990s about her sexual orientation she came out as a lesbian in 2003 She was in a longterm relationship with her former manager Myra Stratton from 2003 until Stratton died from cancer in 2015 In 2022 she married her tour manager Linda Birgitte Olsen Fox was born on 15 April 1966 the eldest child of John Patrick Fox a builder and Carole Ann Wilken an actress and former dancer on the 1960s pop music programme Ready Steady Go She grew up in Crouch End in North London later describing her background as a workingclass markettrader family Fox took an interest in the theatre from an early age attending the Anna Scher Theatre School from age five and subsequently attending Mountview Theatre School She also attended St Thomas More Catholic School Wood Green She formed her first pop band when she was 14 and signed her first record deal with Lamborghini Records at age 15 Foxs glamour modelling career began at age 16 when her mother took photographs of her wearing lingerie and submitted them to The Sunday Peoples Face and Shape of 83 amateur modelling contest After Fox placed second a photographer for The Sun invited her to pose topless for Page 3 at the time she was the youngest person to model topless for the feature British publications could then legally feature topless models aged 16 and older although the minimum age was raised to 18 in May 2004 Source Article Samantha Fox from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA