Samantha Mumba; Schoolgirl Style Just Like Spears

SINGER Samantha Mumba does a Britney - by dressing up as a sexy schoolgirl for her latest photoshoot. She looks Samsational in a tight shirt, tartan tie and saucy short skirt on the cover of Hot Press magazine - recreating the style that made Britney Spears famous in her Baby One More Time video. And in the 22-year-old's most revealing interview yet, revealed she wants to bury the hatchet with her estranged father. Dubliner Sam's father, Zambian-born Peter, split from her mother Barbara six years ago and their relationship has been in tatters ever since. Last March he made matters worse when he told a court his daughter was pregnant in an attempt to get off a drink-driving charge. Sam presumes Peter, who was sent to jail for four months, read the news on an internet site. The singer, her mother and little brother Omero were upset by Peter's actions she's now ready to give him another chance. Sam told Hotpress magazine her "alleged pregnancy" was the worst thing she'd ever read. She added: "It's bad enough someone on the internet would write that you're pregnant with Sisqo's child when obviously I'm not. And then you end up with more rumours - did she have a miscarriage or did she have an abortion? "I can only think he read it and believed it. I can only think it upset him, but he still could have called home just to check if it were true. "We're not close but if I saw him on the street I'd give him a big hug and talk to him. "I'd be glad to see him. But I haven't seen him or had a conversation with him in two years." Her relationship with her dad may be on the rocks but things are rock solid with the other man in her life - her mystery boyfriend. Sam, who has also been linked to Eminem, Puff Daddy and Craig David since spending time in the US, said: "I dated a few people until I met the guy I'm with now. He's lovely and very genuine." A FULL version of this interview is in Hotpress magazine on sale now. By FIONA WYNNE Source: The Mirror