{"id":603182,"date":"2026-05-25T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:34:11","slug":"katie-price-reveals-lee-andrews-owned-three-phones-before-he-went-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/603182\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Price reveals Lee Andrews owned three phones before he went \u2018missing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/katie-price\">Katie Price<\/a> has shared more insight into Lee Andrews\u2019 final contact with her as she continues searching for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/katie-price-husband-lee-andrews-missing-kidnapping-youtube-b2981776.html\">her missing husband<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Price, who wed <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/lee-andrews-missing-katie-price-husband-dubai-b2981815.html\">Andrews<\/a> in January after just days of meeting him, told fans last weekend that she hadn\u2019t heard from her husband since Wednesday 13 May and later revealed that during her last call with him, the Dubai-based businessman was tied up in a van. <\/p>\n<p>Sharing more details in a vlog posted to her YouTube channel on Saturday (23 May), Price revealed that Andrews had three phones on his person when he was allegedly detained. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-24-at-14-03-25.png\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Katie Price shared a new vlog\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/>Katie Price shared a new vlog (Katie Price)<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the phone to an unknown person the morning after Andrews disappeared, Price said: \u201cLast night, [he] said, \u2018They\u2019ve taken two of my phones. They don\u2019t know I\u2019m on this phone. And so he said, \u2018I\u2019ll just let you know I\u2019ve been arrested, if they ring you.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wrote a text quick. I mean, I hope he\u2019s all right, but I don\u2019t know. You\u2019re like me, I have no idea. He\u2019s been in there nearly 24 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vlog then showed Price sending a voice message to Andrews\u2019 dad Peter, with the reality star telling him: \u201cLast night, Lee gave me your number. He said, \u2018Look I\u2019ve been arrested.\u2019 He was in a police van because he FaceTimed me and he said, \u2018Look, they put a hood over me.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot like a balaclava but it looked like he had a hood, like an anorak hood. He said, \u2018They\u2019ve taken two of my phones. They don\u2019t know I\u2019ve got this one.\u2019 He said, \u2018But they\u2019ve arrested me.\u2019 I said, \u2018What for?\u2019 and he said, \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019 So then he said, \u2018Look I\u2019m going to have to go. They\u2019re coming back.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo they put him in a cell there in the prison? What happens?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Andrews\u2019 father <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/katie-price-husband-lee-andrews-instagram-b2982672.html\">Peter claimed that his son had been imprisoned in Dubai<\/a>. \u201cLee is OK. He has not been kidnapped, but he is under arrest. I don&#8217;t know on what charge,\u201d he told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15842927\/Katie-Prices-missing-husband-Lee-Andrews.html\">DailyMail.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0_Lee-Andrews-breaks-silence-after-KP-goes-solo-on-GMB-copy.jpeg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Price hasn\u2019t heard from husband Andrews since Wednesday 13 May\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/>Price hasn\u2019t heard from husband Andrews since Wednesday 13 May (Instagram\/wesleeeandrews)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not sure where he is being held. But he will call me later today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Price later branded that as \u201cfake news\u201d on her Instagram Story, telling fans: \u201cLee is still missing. Me and his family know what\u2019s going on and working with the authorities involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her latest updates come after she said last week that she was \u201ctaking a step back\u201d from the case after reading messages from concerned fans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy tentacles are up so look, I\u2019m not a stupid person and I get how people see things and I have been reading things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m taking time to think of what I want to process and that\u2019s why I say, there\u2019s nothing more I can do but I am getting on with my life if you understand me saying that. Let me put it in short, for my own sanity, I\u2019m taking a step back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-603182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}