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 arrest’ on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Munich.

The icon, 57, had boarded a plane to Munich when she reportedly got into an argument with a fellow passenger.

Sources said The sun that Sam ‘kicked off’ the plane, forcing it to turn on the runway and abandon take-off in London.

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

Sam said she “deeply regrets any disruption” and is assisting police with their investigation.

While Sam spent the night in jail, her fellow passengers spent the night in a hotel before starting the journey the next 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 in March at the age of 50, nine days after collapsing at home following a heart attack.

She died days after Sam filmed her appearance on Celebrity MasterChef and Sam became emotional when discussing her participation in the cooking competition in an interview with The One Show last year.

Sam explained: ‘I had already been practicing (for MasterChef) with my sister for a few weeks as my sister is a fantastic cook.

‘She always did the best Cottage Pie ever and so we practiced together and I recorded it – she’s my younger sister, you can hear her bossing me around and saying, ‘You gotta be clear when you go, clear when you go!’

‘Unfortunately I lost my sister shortly after filming MasterChef.

“So yeah, my Cottage Pie was my sister’s recipe and I still have all her jars and all her mashed potato stuff.”

Sam added: “She’ll be so proud and she was so proud when I got the show because she’s a huge 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 request privacy during this difficult time.”

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

Former famous Big Brother Sam and Vanessa were known to be very 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 after a battle with cancer.

She confessed that she “didn’t want to show people” that she was in a “sad place” after death.

The singer and former glamor model admitted she struggled for two years ‘pretending’ she was happy and ‘couldn’t write songs’.

After falling in love all over again with her new wife Linda Olsen, 50, Sam revealed she’s only now ready to release new music, with an upcoming album on the way.

While attending the ICON Awards in support of the prostate cancer charity Prost8she told MailOnline exclusively: ‘When my ex-partner died I was with her for 16 years and that’s a very, very long time.

‘I couldn’t write any lyrics for two years. I just couldn’t write because everything I wrote was very sad and I didn’t want to show people that I was in that sad place.

“It was very difficult for me to actually put something out at that moment and go on stage and pretend to be happy. I was quite sad, but time heals and then I met Linda.

“I didn’t think at that age that I would ever meet another person that I would have a life with for the rest of my life, and I have and I’m in such a great place.”

She continued, “You turn fifty and you lose the, you know, Myra was the love of my life and we were together for sixteen years and I never thought I would be with anyone else.

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

‘I’m happy that I met such a wonderful, beautiful person inside and out and that I can trust her implicitly. And she, just as my mother is my rock, is also my rock.”

Samantha and Linda married 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 had to postpone their 2020 wedding due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Sam, who enjoyed worldwide success with her 1986 single Touch Me (I Want Your Body), last released an album in 2005, entitled Angel with an Attitude.

She previously admitted it had been a difficult few years following Myra’s cancer diagnosis in 2013, which ultimately killed her in August 2015.

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