Lee Andrews, who tied the knot with Katie Price earlier this year, has been officially declared a missing person after his family filed a report.
The former glamour model said in a recent YouTube video that she hadn’t heard from her husband since around 10pm on 13 May, despite the couple usually being in ‘constant contact’ with each other.
Price explained she had been in touch with the ‘head of CID in Dubai’ who was attempting to locate Andrews, but so far hadn’t been successful, prompting her to fear he may have been ‘kidnapped’.
“We are now wondering, as far-fetched as it is, that he’s a missing person now, I don’t know if he’s been kidnapped,” she said in the clip, which she posted on Saturday (16 May).
Now, it’s been reported that Andrews’ family has lodged an official missing person report with the British Embassy in Dubai.
Katie Price says husband Lee Andrews is ‘missing’ (Instagram/@wesleeandrews)
A source close to Price told The Sun: “Lee is officially a missing person now.
“Katie is in constant contact with his family and is desperately worried.”
The source added that it was a ‘worrying, upsetting situation’.
The story began unfolding last Monday, when Andrews was set to fly from Dubai to the UK to join his wife on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
However, he failed to make the flight and shared a clip to Instagram in which he claimed that he ‘had a couple of things’ he needed to do ‘last minute’ that meant he was unable to make the TV appearance.
Price appeared to be less than impressed by her new husband’s behaviour, saying on her podcast that the whole thing had left her looking like a ‘massive d**k’.
The pair tied the knot earlier this year (Instagram)
Shortly after, she posted to Instagram to announce that Andrews, who she wed back in January, was ‘taking a break’ from social media.
However, in her most recent YouTube update, Price claimed that he had actually gone ‘missing’.
“It was put up on my Instagram that Lee was taking time out of socials because of all the trolling and speculation,” she said.
“’I put that up because the truth is, Lee has been missing for three days. The last time I heard from Lee was Wednesday night at 10pm, he was trying to go through the border in Dubai to get on a flight to me.
Andrews was supposed to fly from Dubai to the UK last week (Instagram/@wesleeandrews)
“Lee was trying to get through the border at Hatta, this is so discombobulating, his location went off at 10.03pm on Wednesday night, that’s the last contact anyone has had – his family and myself.”
She said that messages sent from her and Andrews’ family were failing to go through and raised concerns that he might have been ‘kidnapped’.
Price continued: “No one can find him in any prison, any police station, the police can’t find any record of him. We are wondering if he’s been kidnapped, he’s definitely a missing person now.
“I’m wondering if he’s been kidnapped because he was by the border. The unsettling thing for me, the last time I heard from him, he FaceTimed me, he had a hood on and said, ‘I’ve just been captured or arrested’ and had ties around his hand, not handcuffs, and said ‘they’re coming back for me’.”
How did Katie Price meet Lee Andrews?
Price shared news of their engagement in January, following by a wedding just days later (Instagram/@katieprice)
In January, Price revealed that she and Andrews, who is based in Dubai, met on social media.
She told The Sun: “We connected [by] both checking each other’s socials and quickly realised, ‘Wow, this is for me’… in the old-fashioned way, first by words which captured us both.
“That evolved deeper as we connected further within days, [getting] matching tattoos, and then both deciding to buy rings for the other.”
Just days later, they revealed their engagement, with Price sharing a series of pics on Instagram. In one, rose petals spelt out ‘Will you marry me Katie?’ on the floor. Meanwhile, another saw Price wearing a huge diamond ring while holding onto Andrews’ hand, which appeared to have her name tattooed on it.
On 25 January, Price shared that they had got married, calling themselves the ‘happiest Mr & Mrs’ in an Instagram Story.
The Sun reports that she tied the knot ‘without telling anyone’ and her family have been shocked by this, appearing to come out of nowhere.
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