26 Facts About Samantha Fox

Samantha Karen Fox was born on 15 April 1966 and is an English pop singer and former glamour model from Mile End in the East End of London.

Samantha Fox rose to fame as a topless Page 3 model in The Sun tabloid newspaper, where she appeared regularly from 1983 until 1986.

Samantha Fox received a Best British Female Artist nomination at the Brit Awards 1988.

Samantha Fox has appeared in a number of films and reality television shows, and has occasionally worked as a television presenter.

Samantha Fox subsequently began a relationship with her tour manager Linda Birgitte Olsen.

Samantha Fox was born on 15 April 1966 in Mile End, East London, the oldest daughter of actress Carole Ann Wilken and John Patrick Samantha Fox.

Samantha Fox had a sister, Vanessa, and two half-siblings from her father's second marriage, Frederica and Frankie.

Samantha Fox took an interest in the theatre from an early age; she first appeared on a theatre stage when she was three years old.

Samantha Fox formed her first pop band with Richard Smart, Edward Gallagher and Bob Day when she was fourteen.

Samantha Fox attended St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green; and was enrolled in the Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of fifteen.

At the start of 1983, Samantha Fox's mother submitted several photographs that she had taken of her daughter in lingerie to The Sunday People newspaper's Girl of the Year amateur modelling contest.

Samantha Fox came in second place out of 20,000 entrants and the photographs drew her to the attention of the newspaper The Sun, which invited her to pose for Page 3.

Samantha Fox's parents gave their consent for her to pose topless, and her first Page 3 photograph appeared in the Sun on 22 February 1983.

Samantha Fox signed a four-year Page 3 modelling contract with the Sun, and won its "Page 3 Girl of the Year" award for three consecutive years: 1984 to 1986.

Samantha Fox is recognised today as the most popular pin-up girl of her era, as well as one of the most-photographed British women of the 1980s.

In tandem with her modelling career, Samantha Fox attempted to launch a singing career in 1983.

Two years later Samantha Fox was invited to attend an open audition for Jive Records, as the label was seeking "a British Madonna" to sing the song "Touch Me ".

Samantha Fox was successful and was offered a five album deal.

Some months later, Samantha Fox was launched onto the American market and the single peaked within the top 10 at No 4.

In 1987, having now finished her modelling career, Samantha Fox forged ahead with her singing and performed live across the globe, including the US, where her career continued to flourish.

Samantha Fox did enjoy a few hit collaborations in the years since however, appearing with the band Sox in the heats for the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest and scored a minor hit with their song "Go for the Heart", a UK chart hit with "Santa Maria", by DJ Milano and a European hit with Swedish singer Gunther in 2004.

In 2016, Samantha Fox became a participant in Celebrity Big Brother 18 and she just missed out on reaching the final finishing in seventh place.

Patrick Samantha Fox died in 2000, at that time they had not spoken to each other for nearly a decade.

Samantha Fox had a relationship with Paul Stanley, the rhythm guitarist and co-lead vocalist of rock band Kiss.

In 2015, at 60 years old, Stratton died of cancer, at which point she and Samantha Fox had been in a relationship for 16 years.

In 2008, Samantha Fox donated her favourite bra to a charity auction.