Born Samantha Karen Fox, on Apr 15, 1966, in East End London, England, UK. Reportedly 5' 1", 36DD-23-36.

I suppose if you're a huge fan of someone, if you've invested a large part of your time, energy and money to him or her, it's hard to let that person go — even when that person's clearly no longer among the living. So it was with Jesus, L. Ron Hubbard, Tupac, Elvis ... and apparently Samantha Fox. Believe it or not, as with freshly expired Soviet leaders, there seems to be a conspiracy of denial surrounding the Cockney model/singer's disappearance.

As I remember it, Samantha Fox was something of a sensation back in the 80s. She became famous around the globe for posing topless in The Sun, and in 1986 began a Spice Girl-like recording career that Entertainment Weekly declared would oblige Madonna to retire to a convent. For a time, headlines tracking her life and cup size were the stuff of front pages, but then things started to go awry: First, at 21 she officially ended her topless days (“I'm not just a pair of boobs — there's a lot more to me than that”), and then she started putting on the pounds (by the time she started making music videos she was looking a bit like a dancing Hobbit). Desperate dieting attempts only made matters worse, since it tended to take valuable inches off her bustline. After that, her appeal (at least in the U.S.) quickly withered and died, and not even Playboy's exhuming her in 1996 seemed to generate much interest.

But the world of print and cybermedia offer a happier ending in which Sam is alive and well and still very much a force to be reckoned with. They say that she still performs for audiences that outstrip anything Bruce Springsteen ever played for, that she's able to raise huge sums of money for humanitarian efforts like African Relief and Bare Aid, and that her albums continue to sell like hotcakes. Her image and music are adored by one and all the world over, they insist; only the British press is reluctant to give her the respect she so clearly deserves. And while she may not be as popular now as she once was, articles on the net feel that the only thing keeping her from a triumphal comeback is the still-lingering obsession with supermodels and their heroin chic.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, models like Laetitia Casta have already ushered in a return to the era of mammary chic, but still not a peep from Samantha; she's as hard to find now as she's been all through the 90s. Now I understand that Sam was raised Catholic, and that the Catholics are slow to bury their dead, but after ten years this refusal to call the time and put the coins on her eyelids can no longer be written off as a protracted wake; it's Weekend at Bernie's now.

Also sprach Golem.
(More recent commentary below)

What the...?
Tuesday, September 4, 2001
Samantha Fox is getting married. Sort of.... Read more

Film

• The Match (1999; aka “The Beautiful Game”) .... Barmaid [billed as Sam Fox]
• Rock Dancer (1994) .... Dancer

• An Audience with Kylie Minogue (2001) .... Audience member
• Goodness Gracious Me: Back Where They Came From (2001) .... Herself/Goddess
• 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell (2000) .... Herself
• An Audience with the Spice Girls (1997) .... Herself/Audience Member
• An Evening with Lily Savage (1996) .... Audience Member/Herself
• Song for Europe 1995 (Feb 8, 2003) .... [billed as SOX]
• Brit Awards 1989 (1989) .... Host

• Die 80er Jahre Show: “The Year 1987” (May 25, 2002) .... Herself

• Seitenblicke: “Wörthersee Starnacht” (Oct 8, 2002) .... Herself
• Lorraine (Nov 16, 2001) .... Herself
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Apr 30, 2001) .... Herself
• I Love 1980's (2001) .... Herself [1986 episode]
• The Frank Skinner Show (Nov 13, 2000) .... Herself
• The 11 O'Clock Show (Apr 4, 2000) .... Herself
• Pajama Party (2000) .... Herself
• The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star: “Shifting the Units” (Dec 15, 1998) .... Celebrity [billed as Sam Fox]
• Frontline: “The Code” (May 12, 1997) .... Herself
• The Big Breakfast (1997) .... Herself
• Willkommen Österreich (1997) .... Herself
• The Girlie Show (1996) .... Herself
• Harald Schmidt Show, Die (1996) .... Herself
• Top of the Pops (Mar 24, 1995) .... Herself [billed as SOX]
• Into the Night with Rick Dees (1991) .... Herself
• After Hours (1989) .... Herself
• The Arsenio Hall Show (1989) .... Herself
• America's Top 10 (1988) .... Herself
• Charles in Charge: “Paper Covers Rock” (1987) .... Samantha Steele
• Solstollarna (1987) .... Herself
• Solstollarna (1985)

• Fighting Fit: Boxercise for Women and Men (1993) .... Herself
• Samantha Fox: Just One Night (1991)
• Samantha Fox: The Music Video Collection (1989)
• Samantha Fox: Making Music (1987) .... Herself

Albums

• Twenty-First Century Fox (1997)
• Greatest Hits (1992)
• Just One Night (1991)
• I Wanna Have Some Fun (1988)
• Samantha Fox (1987)
• Touch Me (1986)

• I Wanna Have More Fun (1998)
• Fox The Megamix Album (1987)
• “Sam” Thing Remixed (1987)
• Sam's Collection (1986)

• Let Me Be Free (1997)
• Go For The Heart (1995)
• Just One Night (1991)
• (Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But The Pants Stay On (1991)
• Love House (1989)
• I Only Wanna Be With You (1989)
• I Wanna Have Some Fun (1988)
• Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) (1987)
• Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now (1987)
• Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me) (1987)
• Touch Me (1986)

• Samantha Fox — Making Music (1987) .... An interview and music videos from most of the first two albums
• I Wanna Have Some Fun (1989) .... Includes two versions of “Naughty Girls” and the videos from the album of the same name.
• The Music Video Collection (1989) .... Selected videos from the first three albums and a concert backstage interview.
• Just One Night (1991) .... Long interview with her and Bowlegged Lou and Baby Gerry of Full Force. Has videos for “(Hurt Me! Hurt Me!) But The Pants Stay On”, “Just One Night”, and “Another Woman”
• Greatest Hits (1993) .... All the videos from four albums except “Hold On Tight”
• Fighting Fit with Barry McGuigan — Boxercise for Women and Men (1993) .... Sam does a “workout” and sings the title song “When The Bell Rings”

• Holding (1986)
• Aim To Win (1984)
• Rockin' With My Radio (1983)

Cyber Temples

• Mike and Mandy's Samantha Fox Video Gallery
  It seems that many of the better quality pix in my Samantha galleries ultimately came from here. This place also has a lot of Samantha's videos in AVI format.

Miscellaneous

• Samantha Fox
  Wikipedia
  Samantha Fox in wikireality