Samantha Fox — Biography

Samantha Fox is an English pop vocalist and former glamour model who hails from Mile End in London's East End. As of August 2024, she maintains 715,000 Instagram followers and 146,000 YouTube subscribers. Fox gained initial prominence through her work as a topless Page 3 model for The Sun newspaper, where her photographs appeared consistently between 1983 and 1986. She also posed for Playboy magazine in 1990 when she was thirty years old. Her photographs circulated throughout various media outlets, establishing her as one of Britain's most widely photographed women during the 1980s and among the decade's most recognizable sex symbols. In 1986, Fox secured a recording contract with Jive Records covering five albums. Her debut single for the label, "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)", released that March, achieved top-ten status across Europe, North America and Australia, earning number-one rankings in several nations. Fox released her first album, Touch Me, in July 1986, followed by Samantha Fox in 1987 and I Wanna Have Some Fun in 1988, each generating international hit tracks. The 1988 Brit Awards nominated Fox for Best British Female Artist. Later studio albums including Just One Night from 1991, 21st Century Fox from 1997 and Angel with an Attitude from 2005 achieved limited commercial success, though Fox maintained an active touring schedule and announced plans for a seventh studio album in 2023 with producer Ian Masterson. Fox has participated in various films and reality television programs while occasionally serving as a television host. After years of speculation regarding her personal life, Fox publicly disclosed in 2003 her same-sex relationship with her former manager Myra Stratton. The couple remained together for sixteen years until Stratton's death from cancer in 2015. Fox subsequently entered into a relationship with tour manager Linda Birgitte Olsen. The couple became engaged in 2020 and married in 2022.