Sam Fox has been given a 12-month community order following an alcohol-fuelled fracas on a plane last year.
The 58-year-old former Page 3 star was arrested in December after she boarded a British Airways plane from London to Hamburg and displayed "drunk and disorderly" behaviour.
In a hearing at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, Fox also admitted to "using threatening behaviour, causing harassment, alarm or distress to a police constable" as video emerged of her telling a police officer "I know where you live" and calling him "a ginger c**t" as she was led off the plane.
The prosecution claimed that prior to boarding, the singer had been "walking and behaving strangely and was slurring her words, and staff could smell alcohol on her".
Fox admitted to the court that she had enjoyed "two large vodkas" before suffering "a panic attack" when she got on the flight, which was unable to take off as planned and meant that all 166 passengers had to be put in a hotel overnight.
In a witness statement, the police officer concerned said: "The sustained level of abuse I was subjected to over a period well exceeding two hours was definitely the most long and most disgusting I have been subjected to."
Sentencing, district judge Tan Ikram told her: "In this case, the plane was still on the ground, but as a result of your behaviour the pilot - so that the aircraft would not be endangered - returned the aircraft to the stand.
"There, passengers disembarked and were unable to catch the flight that evening - [they] had to stay overnight and caught the first flight in the morning.
"There is a claim for compensation, but I note at this stage the great inconvenience that you caused all those passengers who were unable to catch that flight and that is separate from the financial loss that British Airways incurred as a result of your actions."
As well as the 12-month community order, Fox was handed a £1,000 fine, up to 25 days of "rehabilitation activities" and around £2,000 in victim compensation.
Neil Wilkes
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