31 Facts About Samantha Fox

Samantha Karen Fox was born on 15 April 1966 and is an English pop singer and former glamour model from Crouch End in North London.

Samantha Fox has appeared on reality television shows and has occasionally worked as a television presenter and actress.

Samantha Fox left Page 3 in 1986, aged 20, to focus on pop music, but made occasional glamour modeling appearances thereafter, notably featuring in a 1996 Playboy pictorial.

Samantha Fox was in a long-term relationship with her former manager Myra Stratton from 2003 until Stratton died from cancer in 2015.

Samantha 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.

Samantha Fox attended St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green.

Samantha Fox formed her first pop band when she was 14 and signed her first record deal with Lamborghini Records at age 15.

Samantha Fox had previously considered joining the police, but at 155 centimetres tall she did not meet the height requirement then in place of 163 centimetres for female officers.

Samantha Fox signed a four-year modelling contract with The Sun and was named "Page 3 Girl of the Year" in 1984,1985 and 1986.

Samantha Fox left Page 3 in 1986, aged 20, to focus on her singing career.

Samantha Fox made occasional glamour modelling appearances later in her career, including a nude photoshoot for the October 1996 issue of Playboy when she was aged 30.

Samantha Fox is recognised as the most popular pin-up girl of her era, as well as one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s, alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, and Margaret Thatcher.

Samantha Fox continued her collaboration with Fenwick, releasing her second single, "Aim to Win", under her own name in 1984.

Samantha Fox later said that "[Lamborghini Records] didn't really have a clue in those days and I didn't either," but said that the experience of performing live benefited her later musical career.

In 1986, Samantha Fox was invited to an open audition for Jive Records, which was seeking a "British Madonna" to record the track "Touch Me ".

At the Brit Awards 1988, Samantha Fox was nominated in the British Female Solo Artist category alongside Kate Bush, Alison Moyet, Sinitta, and Kim Wilde.

Samantha Fox continued to have notable success in Australia and Europe.

Samantha Fox released three further studio albums, Just One Night in 1991,21st Century Fox in 1997, and Angel with an Attitude in 2005, but none produced any hits.

In 2022, Samantha Fox announced that she was working on a seventh studio album, produced by Ian Masterson, that would include a song co-written with Steve Strange as well as songs co-written with Ricky Wilde, brother of Kim Wilde.

Samantha Fox collaborated on "Santa Maria" by DJ Milano, a 1997 cover version of the original 1995 song by Croatian-Dutch model and singer Tatjana.

Samantha Fox collaborated with Swedish singer Gunther, who recorded a cover version of her 1986 hit "Touch Me " for his 2004 album Pleasureman.

Samantha Fox later claimed that the presenters were given cards containing incorrect information, that the autocue was malfunctioning, that female Bros fans disrupted the show with continuous screaming, and that her co-presenter was "out of it".

Samantha Fox featured in The Match, 7 Cases, and the comedy horror film Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.

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

Samantha Fox discovered that her father had moved her money into offshore bank accounts and had not paid tax on her earnings for a decade.

Samantha Fox spoke to her father only once during the last decade of his life; he died in 2000.

Samantha Fox had one full sibling; she has two half-siblings from her father's second marriage.

Bonacci later confirmed that she and Samantha Fox were secretly in a relationship for four and a half years.

In 2003, Samantha Fox came out as a lesbian and confirmed that she was in a relationship with her then-manager Myra Stratton.

Samantha Fox later said she had realised she was gay in her mid-20s but had been reluctant to come out because, having dealt with stalkers, she feared the reactions of some fans.

Samantha Fox denied assaulting her wife on the plane, and prosecutors dropped the assault charge after changes in evidence.