Samantha Fox | |
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 Fox performing in 2009 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Samantha Karen Fox |
| Also known as | Sam Fox |
| Born | 15 April 1966[1] Mile End, London, England |
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Linda Birgitte Olsen
(m. 2022) |
| Partner | Myra Stratton (2003–2015; her death) |
| Website | samfox |
Samantha Karen Fox (born 15 April 1966)[1] is an English pop singer and former glamour model from Crouch End in North London. She has also appeared on reality television shows and has occasionally worked as a television presenter and actress.
Fox rose to fame as a Page 3 model in The Sun tabloid newspaper, where she appeared regularly from 1983 until 1986, becoming one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s and a prominent sex symbol of the era. She left Page 3 in 1986 to focus on her singing career. Released in March of that year, her debut single for the Jive Records label, "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)", became a top-10 hit across Europe, North America, and Australia, reaching number one in several countries.
She released her debut studio album Touch Me in July 1986, and followed it with the studio albums Samantha Fox in 1987 and I Wanna Have Some Fun in 1988, each of which produced international hit singles. At the Brit Awards 1988, she was nominated in the British Female Solo Artist category.[3] Fox's subsequent studio albums Just One Night (1991), 21st Century Fox (1997), and Angel with an Attitude (2005) were less commercially successful, but she has continued to tour and has announced a forthcoming seventh studio album, produced by Ian Masterson.[4]
Following rumours about her sexual orientation, Fox came out as a lesbian in 2003. She was in a long-term relationship with her former manager Myra Stratton from 2003 until the latter's death in 2015. She became engaged to Linda Birgitte Olsen in 2020 and the couple married in 2022.
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- ^ Alison Moyet wins British Female presented by Chris De Burgh | BRIT Awards 1988, 10 December 2012, archived from the original on 14 February 2023, retrieved 14 February 2023
- ^ "Samantha Fox teases new album and potential Australian tour". OUTInPerth | LGBTQIA+ News and Culture. 2 January 2023. Archived from the original on 14 February 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2023.