Modelling Career
Carole Fox photographed her 16-year-old daughter Samantha in lingerie, submitting several pictures to The Sunday People newspaper's Girl of the Year amateur modelling contest. She came in second and the photographs drew her to the attention of the Sun newspaper where her first topless shots were run. By March 1984 Fox had left school and signed a two year contract with the newspaper for ₤2000 a week; she was the youngest person ever at the time to be a Page Three pinup. Other reports had the contract as being for five years.
Fox was named The Sun's Page Three Girl of the Year award for three consecutive years between 1984 and 1986.
Fox retired from Page Three modelling in 1986, at the age of 20, and recorded 'Touch Me'. In 1995, aged 29, she made a one-off appearance in The Sun to promote Page Three's 25th anniversary week. After receiving an overwhelmingly positive reader response, she appeared in the slot every day during the anniversary week, with Friday's final topless picture given away as an A3-sized poster. In 1996, aged 30, she appeared in the October issue of Playboy magazine.
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