Singer Samantha Fox Arrested Following an Alleged Drunken Dispute on a Flight: Report

Singer Samantha Fox Arrested Following an Alleged Drunken Dispute on a Flight: Report
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Singer Samantha Fox was arrested following a reported drunken dispute while onboard a plane, reports said.

The Sun confirmed that Fox was involved in a drunken disturbance on a British Airways plane she boarded at the London Heathrow airport. She reportedly had a dispute with another passenger, causing the pilot to turn around and return to the gate from the runway.

Samantha Fox Arrested

Per the published reports, a woman in her 50s was arrested on suspicion of being drunk while on the aircraft. It was later identified that the "I Wanna Have Some Fun" singer was the arrested passenger.

According to Fox, she is now helping with the investigation and is deeply sorry for what happened.

Passengers were forced to deboard the aircraft and spend the night in a hotel before managing to leave the following day.

Fox and her representatives have not responded to comment after the arrest and the incident.

It happened nearly a year after her sister, Vanessa, died following a heart attack at the age of 50 after the singer filed her appearance in "Celebrity MasterChef.". Her sibling reportedly the one who saved her when their alcoholic father attacked her.

"I thought he was going to kill me and begged him to stop. When I tried to get up he kicked me so hard in the stomach it winded me and he wouldn't stop," the "Touch Me" singer wrote in her autobiography in 2017. "My sister Vanessa heard what was going on and jumped on his back to get him off me."

About Samantha Fox

Fox initially became a model for Page 3 in The Sun tabloid newspaper. She soon pursued her singing career and released her debut single, "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" via Jive Records Label.

Her studio albums included "Touch Me," "Samantha Fox," "I Wanna Have Some Fun," "Just One Night," "21st Century Fox" and "Angel with an Attitude."

Through the years, she and her projects earned different accolades, including the Sales Achievement Award at the Diamond Awards Festival and awards at the Music & Media "Pan European Awards" and Music Week Europarade Year End Charts.

She also joined the Celebrity Big Brother 18 in 2016, years before participating in "Celebrity MasterChef" in 2023.

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