Page 3, or Page Three, was a British newspaper convention of publishing a large image of a topless female glamour model on the third page of mainstream red top tabloids. The Sun introduced the feature in November 1970, which boosted its readership and prompted competing tabloids—including The Daily Mirror, The Sunday People, and The Daily Star—to begin featuring topless models on their own third pages. Well-known Page 3 models included Linda Lusardi, Samantha Fox, Debee Ashby, Maria Whittaker, Katie Price, Keeley Hazell, and Jakki Degg.
Glamour model Lucy Collett began posing for the feature in 2011 after winning The Sun's Page 3 Idol competition.
Labour Party MP Clare Short (photographed in 2011) began campaigning against Page 3 in the 1980s.
Rupert Murdoch, owner of The Sun, suggested in 2013 that Page 3 could transition to a "halfway house", featuring glamour models without showing nudity.
The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch's News Corp. It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. The Sun had the largest daily newspaper circulation in the United Kingdom, but was overtaken by freesheet rival Metro in March 2018.
Front page of The Sun, 7 October 2013
First day of issue promotional silver christening mug
"Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster", 13 March 1986
The Sun's front page on 19 April 1989. The allegations were later proven to be entirely false, with The Sun later admitting their decision to publish the allegations was the "blackest day in this newspaper's history."
