Samantha Karen "Sam" Fox (born 15 April 1966) <br /> is an English dance-pop singer, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at age 16, she began appearing on Page 3 of The Sun, and continued as a Page 3 girl until she was 20. During this time, she became the most popular pin-up girl of her era, as well as one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s. <br />In 1986, she launched her pop-music career with her debut single "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)", which hit Number 1 in 17 countries. She has since sold over 30 million albums worldwide.She has also appeared in a number of films and reality television shows, and has occasionally worked as a television presenter. <br /> <br />Background; <br />The eldest daughter of Carole Ann Wilken and the late John Patrick Fox, Samantha Karen Fox comes from a family of market traders from Chapel Market, Islington, London. <br />Fox attended St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green and took an interest in the theatre from an early age. She first appeared on a theatre stage at age 3, and was enrolled in the Anna Scher Theatre School from age 15.The next year she got her first record deal,with Lamborghini Records <br /> <br />1980s <br />Fox released her debut single, "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)", in March 1986. It made the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic (#3 in the UK; #4 in the US) and topped the charts in 17 countries, including Canada, South Africa, and Australia. Her debut live performance came at Peter Stringfellow's club Hippodrome. Her second single "Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)" also made #10 in the UK though fared less well in the US. <br />Within a year, Fox had released her second album, Samantha Fox (1987), again on Jive Records. The first single released from the album, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now", enabled her to achieve her third (and final) top ten hit in the UK (#8), although it only managed to peak at #80 on the US Billboard charts. The track was produced by the production team Stock/Aitken/Waterman. The second single release, "I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)", failed to match the success of its predecessor in the UK and peaked at #23 in the UK. The next two releases, "I Promise You (Get Ready)" and "True Devotion", both failed altogether to make the UK Top 40 singles chart. The fifth and final single, "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)", turned the fortunes of the album around and managed to secure a top ten placing on the US Billboard charts (#3), becoming her biggest hit to date in the US and scoring Fox another Top 40 hit on the UK singles chart (#31). The track was a different sound for Fox, being produced by the US hip-hop producers Full Force. They would continue to work with Samantha on subsequent albums and achieve similar success with her stateside, wherea <br /> <br />1990s; <br />In 1991, Fox released her fourth album, Just One Night, on Jive Records. The first single, "(Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But the Pants Stay On", was another Full Force production, but it failed to make an impression on either the UK or the US charts. The second single, "Another Woman", originally produced by Ralf-Rene Maue, was remixed by PWL stablemate Phil Harding and performed moderately on some European charts. A third single, the album's title track, was also released. <br />In 1992, Jive released Samantha's first official compilation, Greatest Hits, which featured three new tracks. Fox co-wrote and performed the track "Go for the Heart" for UK submission in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest as Sox, featuring Cris Bonacci and Lorraine McIntosh. The song placed 4th in preliminary public voting, so it wasn't selected as the representative track. <br />In 1998, Fox released a new album, 21st Century Fox. It performed moderately throughout Europe and Scandinavia; without a worldwide-distribution deal the album suffered from little promotion and a staggered release schedule. <br />In 1998, Fox released a single with DJ Milano, "Santa Maria", which charted at #31 in the UK chart and was a Top 10 hit in Austria, Scandinavia, and the Czech Republic <br />In 2008, Fox and her partner Myra took part in Celebrity Wife Swap, exchanging with Freddie Starr and his wife Donna. In November 2009, she took part in ITV's I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here; she was voted out on Day 16. In July 2010, she appeared in a celebrity episode of Come Dine With Me with Calum Best, Janice Dickinson, and Jeff Brazier. <br /> <br />In February 2003, she made a statement about her personal life:"I have slept with other women but I've not been in love before Myra Stratton. People say I'm gay....I don't know what I am. All I know is that I'm in love with Myra [Stratton, my manager]. I love her completely and want to spend the rest of my life with her." <br />Fox said that she was reluctant to come out because after having already dealt with obsessed fans and stalkers, she feared fans' possible reactions to her being in a relationship with a woman.In August 2009, she announced her plans to have a civil partnership with Stratton
