Our long-standing love affair with the first lady of glamour models and pin-up of pop, Sam Fox, is set to continue when she performs at Lo-Profile, Gaydar’s club in London’s Soho, on Thursday 20 October.

Not only was ‘Forever’, Sam’s collaboration with trance superstar 4 Strings, one of GaydarRadio’s top tunes of last year, she also she opened up to us way back in 2008 about how she first got into glamour modelling, how she became the British answer to Madonna, her love for her partner Myra Stratton and the fact that a lot of lesbians look up to her.

Read on to find out what she had to say…

You came to the attention of the British public via glamour modelling. You deservedly own the right to the title of First Lady of Glamour Modelling. How did you get into it?
It was 1983 and there was a story in the Sunday paper that read, ‘Girls, you can be the face and shape of 1983’. It was one of those Sunday afternoons where we were all sitting around reading the papers and we just decided to send a photo in.

Was it something that you wanted to do? You were an actress before, weren’t you?
I went to drama school, yes. To be honest, I didn’t really know why I wanted to do it. I knew from a young age that I definitely didn’t want to work in an office. I knew I wanted to entertain - at any party I’d always be the first one up singing or getting on tables. When my granddad used to play darts in the pub he always got me to sing on one of the tables, and then I’d go around with his hat and collect all this money. It was either singing or anything in the entertainment industry that I wanted to do.

I was so young when I started and I still lived at home, so mum used to come to a lot of the shoots with me. I started doing this at 16, when I was still at school. I was the youngest ever Page 3 girl.

You moved straight on from glamour modelling into the world of pop music and stormed the charts both here in the UK and internationally. ‘Touch Me’ was the big song that catapulted you. What part did you have in that? Did you write that? How did that come about?
No, I wish I did! Basically, Madonna had just had a massive hit with ‘Like a Virgin’ and it was the first kind of controversial song that was around at that time – the mid 80s. She was huge. The record company Jive were looking for a British Madonna and they had a song called ‘Touch Me’ – again, controversial, a bit like ‘Like a Virgin’, but they just needed the right person.

There was an audition and I think about 200 girls turned up. I auditioned and they were quite shocked when I walked in because I was very well known as a Page 3 girl at that time. I’d really learnt the song well and I did my best. They told me to stay behind and they gave me a four album deal then and there. It was amazing. Still, ‘Touch Me’ was a risk for me at the time – 1986 this was, so I would have been about 18.

The video is still around today – the video with all the denim, the leather and the beating of the drum. I loved it when you went through the crowd. How was that for you?
I almost fell off that rope! The director wanted it from loads of different angles. I just had the one leather glove on and that kind of held my strength, but I must have done it about 10 times and by the tenth time I just let go and fell on all these boys’ heads! But they didn’t mind, they liked it!

A lot of lesbians look up to you. How do you feel about that?
It’s really nice. I came out about 5 years ago but I never really spoke about it - me and Myra  are quite private. Then we did Wife Swap. We really felt we wanted to do it because, for a lot of our life, people didn’t realise how close we were and how much in love we were. We wanted to show people that we were just like any other couple who love each other very much. I think that really came across on Wife Swap - we got a lot of letters about it and a lot of emails.

A lot of lesbian women have actually said to me that they were frightened to even talk to their parents about their sexuality and to come out, and that I’ve really helped them.

Catch Sam Fox perform on Thursday 20 October at Lo-Profile, Soho. Buy Tickets Now.