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In the late 1980s, Fox appeared in television advertisements for a Leicestershire-based car dealership network with the slogan "Follow the Fox to Swithland Motors". In 2012 her first 4 albums were re-issued as double deluxe CDs by Cherry Red. In December 2009, her latest compilation album was issued, Greatest Hits, both in single CD and double CD formats. The following year, she appeared in the October issue of Playboy magazine. After receiving an overwhelmingly positive reader response, she appeared in the slot every day of that week, with Friday's final topless picture given away as an A3-sized poster. In 1995, aged 29, she made a one-off appearance in The Sun to promote 's 25th anniversary. In 1986, Fox retired from modelling, at the age of 20, and transitioned into a career in pop music. She is recognised today as the most popular pin-up girl of her era, as well as one of the most-photographed British women of the 1980s.

She signed a four-year modelling contract with the Sun, and won its " Girl of the Year" award for three consecutive years: 1984 to 1986. Her parents gave their consent for her to pose topless, and her first photograph appeared in the Sun on 22 February 1983. She came in second place out of 20,000 entrants and the photographs drew her to the attention of the newspaper The Sun, which invited her to pose for.
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The collaboration with Fenwick continued into 1984 and her second single, "Aim to Win"/"17 and Holding", credited under her full name, where Fenwick again produced and wrote the song on the b-side.Īlso, in 1983, her mother submitted several photographs that she had taken of her daughter in lingerie to The Sunday People newspaper's Girl of the Year amateur modelling contest. and released on the Lamborghini Records label, "Rockin' With My Radio"/"My Old Man" was produced by Ian Gillan Band and Spencer Davis Group member Ray Fenwick, who also wrote the b-side. In 1983, when Fox was 16, she released her first single. The next year she signed her first record deal, with Lamborghini Records. She attended St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green and was enrolled in the Anna Scher Theatre School from the age of fifteen. She formed her first pop band with Richard Smart, Edward Gallagher and Bob Day when she was fourteen. Fox comes from a family of market traders.įox took an interest in the theatre from an early age she first appeared on a theatre stage when she was three years old. Her sister is Vanessa and she has two half-siblings from her father's second marriage, Frederica and Frankie. Fox was born on 15 April 1966 in Mile End, East London, the elder daughter of actress Carole Ann Wilken and John Patrick Fox.
