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 and has occasionally worked as a television presenter and actress. Fox began her modelling career at age 16. After placing second in a Sunday People amateur modelling contest, The Sun recruited her to pose for Page 3, making her first appearance in February 1983. She was named The Sun's "Page 3 Girl of the Year" in 1984
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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 and has occasionally worked as a television presenter and actress. Fox began her modelling career at age 16. After placing second in a Sunday People amateur modelling contest, The Sun recruited her to pose for Page 3, making her first appearance in February 1983. She was named The Sun's "Page 3 Girl of the Year" in 1984, 1985 and 1986, becoming one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s. She left Page 3 in 1986 to focus on music but made occasional modelling appearances thereafter, including a 1996 pictorial in Playboy. In 2008, she was voted the top Page 3 model of all time. Fox released her debut single for Jive Records, "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)", in March 1986. The song reached the top 10 across Europe, North America and Australia, reaching number one in several countries. Her first three studio albums—"Touch Me" (1986), "Samantha Fox" (1987) and "I Wanna Have Some Fun" (1988)—produced international hit singles. She was nominated in the British Female Solo Artist category at the Brit Awards 1988. Her subsequent albums—"Just One Night" (1991), "21st Century Fox" (1997) and "Angel with an Attitude" (2005)—achieved less commercial success, though she has continued to tour and announced a seventh studio album produced by Ian Masterson. Early in her career, Fox dated Peter Foster and Paul Stanley of the band Kiss. Following speculation about her sexual orientation, she came out as a lesbian in 2003. She was in a long-term relationship with her former manager Myra Stratton until Stratton died in 2015. In 2022, Fox married her tour manager, Linda Birgitte Olsen. Fox attempted to launch a music career in 1983 with her first single, credited to S.F.X., a cover of Lesley Jayne's 1981 song "Rocking with My Radio", released on Lamborghini Records. It was produced by Ray Fenwick, who also wrote the B-side, "My Old Man". She released a second single, "Aim to Win", under her own name in 1984. Neither single achieved commercial success, though songs from these releases were later included as bonus tracks on the 2012 deluxe reissue of "Touch Me". In 1986 Fox auditioned for Jive Records, which sought a British artist to record "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)". The single became a commercial success, reaching number three in the UK and number four on the US Billboard Hot 100. Her second single, "Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)", also reached the UK top 10. Her debut album "Touch Me" peaked at number 17 in the UK and reached number one in Finland. Her second album, "Samantha Fox", released in 1987, included the singles "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" and "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)". At the Brit Awards 1988, she was nominated in the British Female Solo Artist category alongside Kate Bush, Alison Moyet, Sinitta and Kim Wilde. Her third album, "I Wanna Have Some Fun" (1988), featured the singles "I Only Wanna Be With You" and "I Wanna Have Some Fun". By the end of the 1980s, Fox had three top-10 singles in both the UK and US and three gold albums in the US. Fox's record sales declined after the 1980s. She released "Just One Night" (1991), "21st Century Fox" (1997) and "Angel with an Attitude" (2005), none of which produced major hits. A "Greatest Hits" compilation was issued in 2009, and her first four albums were remastered and reissued in 2012 with additional tracks. In 2022, she announced work on a seventh studio album, including collaborations with Steve Strange and Ricky Wilde. In addition to her solo work, Fox formed the short-lived band Sox with Cris Bonacci and Lauraine McIntosh. They entered "A Song for Europe" in 1995 with "Go for the Heart", finishing fourth, and released the single before disbanding. Fox collaborated on "Santa Maria" by DJ Milano, a 1997 cover of Tatjana's 1995 song, and appeared on a 2004 cover of "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" by Günther. In 2022, she provided co-lead vocals on "Tomorrow" with the Swedish band Nestor. In August 2023, she toured the United States with Bad Boys Blue and Boney M., performing in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Jose. Studio albums Touch Me (1986) Samantha Fox (1987) I Wanna Have Some Fun (1988) Just One Night (1991) 21st Century Fox (1997) Angel with an Attitude (2005)
