Sam Fox arrested and spends the night in jail after ‘drunken bust up’ on flight from Heathrow to Munich

Sam Fox spent the night in jail after a ‘drunken bust up’ on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Munich.

The Page 3 icon, 57, had boarded the flight to Munich when she allegedly got into a boozy row with a fellow passenger. 

Sources told The Sun that Sam ‘kicked off’ on the plane, forcing it to turn around on the runway and abandon takeoff in London. 

Police confirmed that a woman in her 50s was arrested on suspicion of being drunk on board an aircraft and has been bailed until March.

Sam said she is ‘deeply sorry for any disruption caused’ and is helping police with their investigation. 

While Sam spent the night in jail, her fellow passengers spent the night in a hotel before making the journey the following day.  

MailOnline has contacted Sam’s representatives for comment.

The arrest comes as Sam continues to deal with the grief of losing her younger sister Vanessa last year. 

Vanessa died aged just 50 in March nine days after she collapsed at her home following a heart attack.

She died days after Sam filmed her appearance in Celebrity MasterChef and Sam became emotional as she discussed her stint on the cooking competition in an interview with The One Show last year. 

Sam explained: ‘I’d practised [for MasterChef] for a good couple of weeks with my sister as my sister is a fantastic cook.

‘She’s always done the best Cottage Pie ever and so we practised together and I taped it – she’s my younger sister, you can hear her bossing me around and going ‘you’ve got to clear as you go, clear as you go!’

‘Unfortunately, I lost my sister just after the filming of MasterChef.

‘So yeah, my Cottage Pie was my sister’s recipe and I’ve still got all of her pots and all of her mash potatoes things.’

Sam added: ‘She’s gonna be so proud and she was so proud when I got the show because she’s a massive fan of the show.’

A representative for Sam said after Vanessa’s death in March: ‘Sam would like to thank the wonderful doctors and nurses for their care and support.

‘Sam and her family respectfully ask for privacy at this difficult time.’

The news was just the latest heartache to hit Sam, who only had one full sister from her dad’s first marriage to her mum, Carole Ann Wilken.

Former Celebrity Big Brother Sam and Vanessa were known to have been extremely close before the tragic death.

Just a month before Vanessa’s death, Sam opened up about the death of her partner Myra Stratton who died in 2015 following a battle with cancer.

She confessed she ‘didn’t want to show people’ she was in a ‘sad place’ after the death.

The singer and former glamour model admitted she struggled with ‘pretending’ to be happy and ‘couldn’t write any songs’ for two years.

Having fallen in love again with her new wife Linda Olsen, 50, Sam revealed it’s only now that she’s ready to release new music, with an upcoming album on its way.

While attending the ICON Awards in Support of prostate cancer charity Prost8, she exclusively told MailOnline: ‘When my my ex-partner died, I was with her for 16 years and that’s a long, long time.

‘For two years, I couldn’t write a lyric. I just couldn’t write because everything I was writing was very sad and I didn’t want to show people I was in that sad place.

‘It was very hard for me to actually release anything at that time and go on stage and pretend to be happy. I was quite sad but time is a healer and then I met Linda.

‘I didn’t think at that age, I’d ever meet someone again I was going to settle down with for the rest of my life and I have and I’m in such a great place.’

She continued: ‘You get to your 50s and you lose the, you know, Myra was the love of my life and we were together 16 years and I didn’t ever think I was going to be with anybody else.

‘I thought that was my life mapped out. So when I met Linda and I fell in love, it was instant love when we met each other. It really was and I’m just so happy.

‘I’m happy I’ve met such a wonderful, beautiful inside and out person and I can trust her implicitly. And she’s, as well as my mum being my rock, she’s my rock too.’

Samantha and Linda tied the knot in a lavish ceremony in Essex in July, after announcing their engagement in March 2020.

The former model walked down the aisle with her partner after they were forced to postpone their 2020 wedding due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sam, who enjoyed global success with her 1986 single Touch Me (I Want Your Body), last put out an album in 2005, titled Angel with an Attitude.

She previously admitted it was a tough few years following Myra’s diagnosis with cancer in 2013, which she eventually passed away from August 2015.

Myra, aged 60, was Samantha’s romantic partner and manager for 12 years, with the pop star confirming her sexuality publicly the year they started dating.