Samantha Fox charged with public order offence over on-flight bust-up
Samantha Fox has been charged with a public order offence and being drunk on a plane.
The 57-year-old star - who enjoyed chart success in the 1980s with songs including Touch Me (I Want Your Body) and Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now - was on a flight to Germany in January when the incident took place. Earlier reports revealed that the star was arrested at Heathrow Airport after she had used threatening, abusive or insulting words to cause harassment, alarm or distress on board a British Airways flight.
All passengers were forced to abandon the flight at the time as take-off was delayed meaning the flight wouldn’t be able to land in time for strict air travel laws in Germany. All the other passengers were put up in a hotel and moved to flights the following day - while Sam reportedly spent the night in a cell instead.
Now the Metropolitan Police have confirmed she has been charged with a public order offence following her arrest two months ago. The singer is now scheduled to appear at Uxbridge magistrates’ court, West London, later this month.
The singer is also accused of being drunk on a British Airways flight (S Meddle/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)When asked for details over the charge, a Metropolitan Police spokesperson confirmed to The Mirror: “A woman has been charged in relation to an incident on a plane on Sunday, 3 December 2023. Samantha Fox (15.04.66) of Waltham Forest, was charged via postal requisition with a public order offence (S4a) and being drunk on an aircraft. She will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Friday, 22 March.”
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When news reports emerged of Sam’s arrest on 21 January, the star issued a grovelling apology. She said at the time, via The Sun, that she was: “deeply sorry for any disruption caused”. Reports said she was helping the police with their investigation.
Sam, who rose to fame as a glamour model in the 1980s before becoming a pop star, married her partner of six years Linda Oslen in 2022, with a lavish ceremony in Essex. The former Celebrity Big Brother star and Linda announced their engagement in March 2020, four years after they first struck up a romance in 2016.
During an appearance on Loose Women, Sam revealed that it was Linda who proposed, after panellist Frankie Bridge asked Sam if she was surprised when it happened. "Kind of, I did hint!" Sam admitted, before adding: "I mean I’m getting on a bit now. When I met her, I knew I was completely in love with her and wanted to be with her forever." Recalling the moment she first dropped some wedding hints to her now-wife, Sam added: "I was doing a concert in Slovakia and we stayed in a 16th century castle and I said, ‘wouldn’t it be lovely to get married here?’ She waited until Valentine’s Day 2020 to ask me to be her wife. She got down on one knee and it was all very traditional, I cried, she cried."
In her 2017 autobiography, Forever, Sam shared how close she was to Vanessa, who once saved her from their alcoholic father Pat. Sam recalled: "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."
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