Samantha Karen Fox (born 15 April 1966)[1] is an English pop singer and former glamour model from Crouch End in North London.

She left Page 3 in 1986, aged 20, to focus on her pop music career, but made occasional glamour modeling appearances thereafter, notably featuring in Playboy magazine in 1996.

Released in March 1986, 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.

Her first three studio albums—Touch Me (1986), Samantha Fox (1987) and I Wanna Have Some Fun (1988)—all produced international hit singles; she was nominated in the British Female Solo Artist category at the Brit Awards 1988.

[3] Her subsequent albums—Just One Night (1991), 21st Century Fox (1997) and Angel with an Attitude (2005)—were less successful, but she has continued to tour and has announced a forthcoming seventh studio album, produced by Ian Masterson.

[4] In her early career, Fox dated men including Peter Foster, the Australian fraudster, and Paul Stanley, the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of rock band Kiss.

She 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.

[19] She 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.

Her first single, credited to S.F.X., was a cover version of the 1981 Lesley Jayne song "Rocking with My Radio", released on the Lamborghini Records label.

It was produced by Ian Gillan Band and Spencer Davis Group member Ray Fenwick, who also wrote the B-side, "My Old Man".

[13] Her second album, Samantha Fox, released in 1987, featured the hit singles "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now" (UK #8) and "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" (US #3).

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

[27] In 2012, her first four albums were remastered and reissued as double deluxe CDs by Cherry Red, with the addition of remixes and previously unreleased tracks.

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

In August 2023, she toured in the United States with Bad Boys Blue and Boney M, appearing in cities including New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Jose.

She and Mick Fleetwood co-presented the Brit Awards 1989, a live BBC broadcast that was subsequently described as "chaotic" and an "epic shambles".

[33][34] The presenters repeatedly missed cues and made incorrect introductions, including failing to show a recorded message from Michael Jackson and introducing Boy George as the Four Tops.

[33] 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".

She dated the Australian fraudster Peter Foster but turned down his marriage proposal, later saying: "My parents had split and here was a man who was clever, manipulative and domineering.

"[40] She was also linked to Kit Miller, a journalist;[41] Rafi Camino, a Spanish bullfighter;[42] and Paul Stanley, the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the American rock band Kiss.

[57][58] In December 2023, police officers arrested Fox at Heathrow Airport after her conduct prevented the departure of an evening British Airways flight to Hamburg.

[59] At Uxbridge Magistrates' Court in April 2024, she pleaded guilty to charges of drunk and disorderly conduct on a plane and to threatening and abusive behaviour towards a police officer.