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Katie Price’s husband Lee Andrews has claimed he was captured by men at gunpoint in his first video since leaving Dubai prison.
Since marrying the former glamour model, 48, in January after a whirlwind romance, Lee has been under immense scrutiny with question marks over his professional and personal life claims and has been accused of being a conman and a scammer.
Last month, he disappeared shortly after failing to show up to a Good Morning Britain interview after not being able to leave Dubai. Katie claimed he had been ‘kidnapped’ and weeks later, he showed up in notorious Al-Awir prison.
It’s not clear exactly what he was locked up for, with his claims of ‘espionage’ denied by the Dubai authorities, who said it was a ‘private civil matter’. It’s also not clear how he coughed up the reported £140,000 bail after Katie refused to give him the money.
Nevertheless, in his first official statement since his release, he confirmed he is ‘safe and healthy and with his wife’. Then claimed on his Instagram story: ‘I was taken close to the Qatar Omani border at gunpoint and was captured by men with assault rifles.
‘They did slap me around a little bit, the little s**ts. I was hand-tied, shackled and also with a hood over my head.
‘From there I was taken to a black site and I had no use of my phone. From what I know, it was an extended arm of the national guard, and that’s all I can reveal at the moment.
‘I have signed disclaimers now with state security, and from there I was put into the system.’
He then denied the allegations of financial fraud or criminal activity such as this.
The self-proclaimed millionaire, who also debuted a new head of hair, continued: ‘I’m sending messages out to my loved ones and my beautiful wife, who, without her help involving all the UK authorities, I don’t think I would have got out of that situation.
‘Because of the tensions and things happening in the region and me being so close to the border, this is why I was suspected of espionage and held in a state security building without the use of a telephone [or] any rights to shower, contact or speak to any of my family, including the embassy or my wife.
‘So thank you to Katie for making such a noise where the UAE actually listened and let me go.’
Everything Lee Andrews has been accused of since marrying Katie Price
Misleading claims of being a multi-millionaire business owner
When Katie named Lee as her new partner, he was selling himself as the CEO of Aura Group Future Urban Travel 2027 and an ‘investor in SpaceX Hybrid Fitness’.
His profile, which had 111k followers, was littered with photos of the entrepreneur in the gym and enjoying the high life in Dubai – also appearing to rub shoulders with Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian.
However, it was all later exposed as a farce – with no information about his company on its website, and his snaps with celebrities appearing to also be AI-generated.
Being banned from leaving Dubai
After meeting and marrying her new husband in Dubai, it came time for Katie to fly home to the UK – however her husband was unable to join her.
This was due to the fact that he’d allegedly served time in Dubai’s Al Awir central prison for suspected fraud, for allegedly taking out a £200,000 mortgage in his ex-girlfriend’s name without her knowledge.
The UAW bans people facing criminal investigations from leaving the country, however Lee denied he was unable to return to the UK and said there must be some ‘wrong details’.
However, Katie later confirmed he was subjected to a ban, but didn’t clarify why.
Teasing a fake pregnancy
Just a few weeks into their relationship, both Katie and Lee teased they were expecting a baby. After Katie declared she was ‘having his child’ Lee wrote they were a ‘perfect couple soon to be triple’.
At one point, the mum of five even urged her followers to pay £2.99 to find out the results of a pregnancy test.
Despite the attempts to generate publicity, she then confirmed she was not pregnant.
Scamming a string of women
Days after Katie and Lee tied the knot, two of his exes accused him of being a ‘liar, narcissist and manipulator’.
Two months later, it was then reported he’d been begging women for money weeks before he married Katie.
His ex Alana, then shared a post on Instagram calling him the ‘Tinder Swindler’ and claimed multiple women had contacted her saying he’d tried to scam them out of money too.
‘Ghosting’ his wife
After Lee failed to return to the UK last week, Katie revealed she had concerns he’d been kidnapped and then reported him as a missing person.
However, it was then reported that Lee had actually ‘ghosted’ his wife and was ‘squatting in a slightly run-down villa’ in Dubai and using a burner phone.
The Sun claimed he was ‘frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in’.
He further claimed he had a ‘civil case’ in Dubai, which led to him going into the mainstream prison [Al Awir prison] during Eid.
‘I was able to secure my release, and I’m here now, so thank you to everybody for listening,’ he concluded.
His reality star wife Katie, was quick to show her support on social media by reposting the video statement with the caption: ‘My husband back’.
She had an emotional reunion with him over the weekend after jetting over to Dubai to see him post-release. She could be seen jumping into his arms as he picked her up and hugged her.
Despite seemingly backing her husband, who has decided to double down on the espionage claim, last week she did say she planned to question him.
Generously, she said: ‘He is coming out, I can’t wait to see him, can’t wait to have our chats, and he should be out next week, but knowing that, knowing what prisons are like even in England, you never know.’
But she added: ‘I’ve made it clear to Lee, I will never give him money, I’ll never give a man money, I’ve done it all my life, I’ve always been the breadwinner. My divorces, I’m the one that always has to give. I said to Lee I’ll never do it.’