Samantha Fox's heartbreak after death of long-term partner she branded her ‘soulmate’

Samantha Fox was devastated after losing her long-term partner, Myra Stratton in 2015. The former glamour model, 58, was in a relationship with Myra from 2003 until her death.

They started dating four years after Myra started managing the singer. Fans got a peek inside their relationship when the couple appeared together on an episode of Celebrity Wife Swap in 2008.

Speaking to the camera, Sam said of her partner: "If she wasn't there, my world would fall apart. She's my soulmate and the person I have been looking for all my life." In 2009, while she was on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, Sam revealed they were engaged.

"We're engaged, we got engaged this year in Thailand," she told her campmates. "The first year we met we both got tattoos on our fingers, we knew, I knew she was going to be my soulmate for the rest of my life."

Myra was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 and sadly lost her battle with the disease two years later. Her death was confirmed a statement that read: "It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Myra Stratton. She was Samantha Fox's partner and manager for the last 16 years.

"She bravely fought cancer for the last two years but lost her battle on Sunday. Samantha asks for privacy as she grieves."

Speaking on This Morning in 2016, Samantha opened up about losing her soulmate. She said: "It's been a difficult couple of years for me. The suffering is over… suffered for a good two years.

"She was told she was terminal two years before she died, so that was the most difficult time, the two years leading up to her death."

Samantha found love again with Norwegian mother-of-two Linda Birgitte Olsen. She opened up about her new romance on Celebrity, gushing: "I've now fallen in love with another woman. I met somebody a couple of months ago and I'm very happy. As you get older, life goes so quick."

The couple tied the knot in 2022. Just over one year later, the two were involved in a bust-up which prevented a plane taking off from Heathrow. The popstar threatened a police officer when she was arrested and spent a night in a prison cell after the incident on the BA flight.

Appearing in court in April, Samantha was charged with being drunk on a plane and assaulting her wife on 3 December last year. She pleaded guilty to drunk and disorderly behaviour but denied assault by beating.

Samantha had been due to stand trial at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Monday (September 2), however, she has been cleared of assaulting her wife after prosecutors dropped the charge. She will still be sentenced for the other two charges today.