Who is Samantha Fox’s wife Linda Olsen? Meet the very private mum-of-two after the Page 3 icon was cleared of assaulting her during ‘drunken bust-up’ on a flight

Samantha Fox was this week acquitted of assaulting her wife Linda Olsen on a British Airlines flight, with prosecutors dropping the charges.

The former Page 3 icon, 58, appeared in court at Uxbridge Crown Court on Monday after Linda reportedly attacked during a flight from Heathrow to Munich on December 3, 2023 – which she denied.

Sam had admitted to being drunk, disorderly and harassing, frightening or embarrassing a police officer during a court hearing in April, and was sentenced to community service during this week’s trial.

Although Sam was not pictured with Linda when she appeared in court, it is reported that the couple, who married in 2022, still very much together.

But who is Sam’s wife Linda? MailOnline takes a look inside the Norwegian beauty’s life as her relationship with the pop star comes under the spotlight…

Who is Linda, Sam Fox’s wife?

Linda Birgitte Olsen is a tour manager from Norway who leads a relatively private life.

The brunette, who was born in 1976, met Sam in 2016 after her partner Myra Stratton died of cancer.

The former glamour model, who was also diagnosed with cancer two years ago after discovering a lump in her vocal cords, announced in 2018 that she had finally found love with the Norwegian single mother of two.

The couple met the singer, Linda is a big fan of the star’s work.

It was Linda who got down on one knee in front of Sam in February 2020 and tried to seduce the blonde babe.

Speaking after the wedding on Loose Women, Sam and Linda said they had an “instant connection” from the moment they first met.

Sam shared, “I met a few of my heroes and was very disappointed… but thank God it wasn’t her. And thank God I’m not that kind of person!”

Sam also previously spoke about her relationship with Olsen after she left the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2017.

I have now [fallen] “In love with another woman,” she said.

“I met someone a few months ago and I’m very happy. When you get older, life goes so fast.”

She also discussed her sexuality in the house, saying she had never fallen in love with a woman until she met Myra.

When did they get married?

Linda and Sam married in June 2022 in an extravagant Eurovision-themed ceremony at the Kings Oak Hotel in Epping Forest, Essex.

Sam later revealed that the brides kept to tradition and didn’t see each other the night before the big day.

Sam looked stunning in a strapless white wedding dress at her wedding reception, where the happy couple were cut into a pink three-tiered cake, with performances from Norwegian pop duo Bobbysocks – made up of band members Elisabeth (Bettan) Andreassen and Hanne Krogh. Lisa Stokke also made an appearance.

She arrived at the ceremony in a white taxi, decorated with pink ribbons and a beautiful heart-shaped flower arrangement on the bonnet. The registration plate read: ‘Sam and Linda are getting married, 18th June 2022’.

They were forced to postpone their 2020 wedding due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The former model was given away by her mother Carole and stepfather Colin, who walked her down the aisle on crutches after he recently broke his thigh bone.

Sam and Linda’s engagement was announced in March 2020, with a source telling The Sun at the time: ‘Sam and Linda are so happy together and want to spend the rest of their lives together. They are so in love and want to make it official.’

Does Linda have children?

Linda has twin sons Adam and Noah, 22, from a previous relationship. Their father is unknown.

Adam and Noah were incredibly proud when they walked their mother down the aisle in 2022 when she married Sam.

Although she is relatively private, Linda takes the opportunity each December to honor her boys on their birthday, sharing countless snapshots of them over the years.

Sam has previously said that she sees herself as a “bonus mom” to Linda’s two sons rather than a stepmother, finding the term too “Cinderella.”

Who did Sam date before he dated Linda?

Sam married Linda six years after losing her beloved friend of 12 years, Myra Stratton, to cancer.

Myra was diagnosed with cancer in 2013 and passed away from the disease in August 2015.

Myra, 60, was also Sam’s manager and the pop star publicly confirmed her sexuality the year they started dating.

In April 2016, Sam spoke on the This Morning programme about her grief and the loss of Myra: It’s been a tough few years.

“The suffering is over… I suffered for a good two years. She was told she was terminal two years before she died, so that was the hardest time, the two years before she died.”

The former I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star announced the sad news of Myra’s passing on her Instagram page last summer, writing: “I will always love you.”

Sam had a string of famous exes before her marriage to Linda, including serial conman Peter Foster, who cheated on the model and sold the story of their sex life to a tabloid.

In the late 1980s, she also had a brief relationship with Kiss guitarist and co-lead vocalist Paul Stanley.