Lee Andrews, who was reported missing two weeks ago, has been found after calling Katie Price from Dubai’s Al Awir prison, claiming authorities arrested him on suspicion of espionageRishma Dosani, Daniel Bird and Emma O’Neill Content Editor
12:50, 27 May 2026
Katie married Lee at the beginning of the year(Image: @wesleeeandrews/Instagram)
Katie Price’s husband Lee Andrews has been located. The self-proclaimed millionaire was reported missing on 17th May, five days after he was last spotted.
Lee claims he was arrested and held on suspicion of espionage, and has been detained at Dubai’s notorious Al Awir prison.
Katie said: “I have found him – he is alive, and he is okay.
“I told him how worried I had been and told him I loved him. It was very rushed, but he said the authorities out there thought he was a spy. I don’t know much more than that right now,” she told The Sun.
It is understood Lee was arrested on Wednesday 14th May after going into hiding when he failed to board a flight back to the UK, reports the Mirror.
(Image: @wesleeeandrews/instagram)
In the days leading up to his arrest, he had cleared out his rental apartment and briefly moved in with his father, staying at his Dubai villa.
Lee must now pay a four-figure fine and is expected to be freed on Monday.
The former glamour model had initially told her followers that her husband had been kidnapped in Dubai while preparing to fly to the United Kingdom to be reunited with her. During a chilling FaceTime call, Lee told his wife he was in the back of a van with his hands bound.
He warned Katie that people were “coming” for him, leaving her deeply alarmed. Five days after their last conversation, Katie filed a missing person report and informed fans that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the United Arab Emirates, where Lee is based, had become involved in the search.
Now, two weeks after disappearing, Lee has been located. According to the outlet, he stated that he was arrested on Wednesday 14 May after purposely maintaining a low profile – he was allegedly detained on suspicion of espionage, claiming that he was held at the Al Awir prison in Dubai.
The pair have remained in the headlines(Image: Instagram/wesleeeandrews)
It has been reported that he will now be required to pay a fine, believed to be in the four-figure range, and is anticipated to be released on Monday.
Alarm bells first rang regarding Lee when he failed to appear alongside Katie on Good Morning Britain, one day before Katie last had contact with him. He was scheduled to fly from Muscat International to meet his wife for their first joint interview. Despite sending a video to both Katie and Good Morning Britain, insisting he was in the airport.
However, the airport seemed to be Terminal Two of Dubai International, rather than Muscat. ITV also confirmed that a Foreign Office spokesperson told them that the Foreign Office was providing support to a British national who had been detained in the United Arab Emirates.
Subsequently, the mother-of-five posted the final text messages she said she had received from her husband’s phone, with one message reading: “Been arrested, I’ll be in touch.”
(Image: @wesleeeandrews/instagram)
It had been suggested that Lee was being pursued by Interpol but a source tells the Mirror that’s not the case, noting that if he is being detained by authorities in the United Arab Emirates it’s unlikely to be connected to a report that was initially received by Hertfordshire Police earlier this year.
In a statement provided to The Mirror, Hertfordshire Police later confirmed: “We’d like to clarify that Hertfordshire Constabulary received a report in March, however, once it was established the alleged offences happened in Dubai, we referred this case to the relevant authorities as this was outside of our jurisdiction.”
Katie had previously told followers on her YouTube channel that she believed Lee had been kidnapped. She revealed that the location services on Lee’s phone had been switched off, and nobody was able to track him down or make contact with him. “Me and Lee are in constant contact all the time,” she said, describing it as “worrying” that Lee’s location had been disabled.
Katie disclosed that she received a message indicating that nobody could trace Lee in Dubai or his last known whereabouts. “We’re now wondering, as far-fetched as it is, he’s a missing person,” she said, adding: “I don’t know if he’s been kidnapped.” She claimed that there had been no record of Lee at any prison or police station.
(Image: Instagram)
“We’re wondering if he’s been kidnapped; he’s definitely a missing person now,” she added. However, her decision to go public left Lee’s friends and family furious. Lee’s mum, psychic medium Trisha Andrews, has also publicly criticised her daughter-in-law in a scathing social media post.
Beneath a Facebook update promoting her psychic evening, one person wrote: “Think everyone needs to leave her [Trisha] alone as she’s not responsible for Price’s drama-queen antics.” Trisha replied: “Thank you Jane it’s Katy exployting and I get all the backlash [sic].” A family friend, Rebecca, who grew up alongside Lee and his sister Kelly in Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, revealed that Kelly is taking charge for the family and has been in contact with Katie and the authorities.
“She is trying to take the strain off her mother, Trisha, and I’m trying to support both of them through this worrying time,” Rebecca told the Daily Mail. She went on to say: “Kelly wasn’t happy with the video Katie put out about him being kidnapped. That blew everything up, and it was unnecessary.”
Rebecca claimed Lee’s family are “sick with worry,” and Trisha has been left in tears, adding that those nearest to him “don’t have the money” to travel to Dubai, as his friends and family “work regular jobs”.