Katie Price Blasts Critics Branding Husband Going Missing A ‘Publicity Stunt’

Katie Price has issued an update after sharing that her husband is “missing”.

The reality star announced earlier this year that she had married the Dubai-based entrepreneur Lee Andrews around a week after meeting him in real life, having already struck up a relationship on social media.

Last week, Lee was due to fly to the UK to join Katie for a joint appearance on Good Morning Britain, though he ultimately didn’t turn up.

Over the weekend, the Celebrity Big Brother winner shared a video on YouTube claiming that Lee had been “missing” in Dubai for the last three days, his location services had been switched off his phone and that when they’d last spoken via video-chat, he was in the back of a van wearing a hood with his hands bound.

Katie has since posted another video onto her YouTube channel, in which she criticised those who have made light of the story, and questioned whether it may even have been a publicity stunt.

“This is a really difficult time for me at the moment,” she began. “It’s been five days now since I’ve heard anything from Lee. None of his family have [heard] anything from Lee. His dad is out is Dubai, he’s heard nothing, and the rest of his family is in the UK, and obviously [so am I].

“We have reported him to the British embassy as a missing person, he’s been reported in Dubai as a missing person, I just don’t know what to say.”

Disclosing that her “anxiety levels are sky high”, Katie continued: “I know there’s going to be stories coming out now because it’s a hot topic. But, at the end of the day, guys, I have feelings – and people disrespect that. It’s really not nice for me to be going through all of this, at all.”

“I am only human,” she noted. “I am a tough girl, I’m a survivor, but I’ve never been in a situation like this – I don’t think many people have been in a situation like this where all of a sudden the last message you get [is] a FaceTime from your husband in the back of a dirty old van.”

Responding to “TikToks”, “Instagrams”, “media speculation” and “lots of things flying about” with regards to her husband’s whereabouts, she added: “What everyone has to remember, as much as everyone’s trying to take the piss out of everything and speculate this and speculate that, this isn’t a game. This is real life. This is a serious situation for me.

“So, everyone trying to speculate, take the piss, make jokes, just think of other people’s feelings here.”

“This isn’t a ‘scandal’, this is something that’s really happening, and there are real feelings involved here,” she insisted, before stating: “I want to make it clear, again, everyone. This is not a publicity stunt. This is real. And anyone who thinks that I’m part of this is disgusting.”

Katie concluded by urging anyone with information to “come to me, or come to the newspapers, and we can find him”.

In her previous video, Katie expressed concern that Lee may have been kidnapped or held ransom, but clarified in her latest update that if that were the case, she’d not received any ransom note.

Katie and Lee’s first wedding service took place in Dubai in January, with the pair formally registering their marriage the following month.

The former glamour model has now been married four times, first to pop singer Peter Andre, who she met while they were both competing on I’m A Celebrity in the early 2000s, and with whom she shares two grown-up children, Junior and Princess.

Katie was then married to ex-cage fighter Alex Reid for one year, and builder and former stripper Kieran Hayler for eight years. Kieran is the father of Katie’s youngest son and daughter, Jett and Bunny, and she also has a grown-up son, Harvey, from a past relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke.