{"id":659151,"date":"2026-06-26T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659151\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:29:09","slug":"lee-andrews-claims-hes-joining-eastenders-and-wants-katie-price-to-join-him-soaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659151\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Andrews claims he&#8217;s joining EastEnders \u2013 and wants Katie Price to join him | Soaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misleading claims of being a multi-millionaire business owner<\/p>\n<p>When Katie named Lee as her new partner, he was selling himself as the CEO of Aura Group Future Urban Travel 2027 and an \u2018investor in SpaceX Hybrid Fitness\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>His profile, which had 111k followers, was littered with photos of the entrepreneur in the gym and enjoying the high life in Dubai &#8211; also appearing to rub shoulders with Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/01\/27\/katie-price-declares-she-loves-new-husband-unconditionally-despite-claims-of-faked-career-26547897\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">it was all later exposed as a farce<\/a> &#8211; with no information about his company on its website, and his snaps with celebrities appearing to also be AI-generated.<\/p>\n<p>Being banned from leaving Dubai<\/p>\n<p>After meeting and marrying her new husband in Dubai, it came time for Katie to fly home to the UK \u2013 <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/02\/01\/katie-prices-husband-lee-andrews-banned-leaving-dubai-jail-time-suspected-fraud-26651131\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">however her husband was unable to join her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was due to the fact that he\u2019d allegedly served time in Dubai\u2019s Al Awir central prison for suspected fraud, for allegedly taking out a \u00a3200,000 mortgage in his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s name without her knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018wrong details\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, Katie later confirmed he was subjected to a ban, but didn&#8217;t clarify why.<\/p>\n<p>Teasing a fake pregnancy<\/p>\n<p>Just a few weeks into their relationship, <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/02\/24\/katie-price-addresses-pregnancy-claims-saying-having-lee-andrews-baby-27081196\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">both Katie and Lee teased they were expecting a baby<\/a>. After Katie declared she was &#8216;having his child&#8217; Lee wrote they were a \u2018perfect couple soon to be triple\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the mum of five even urged her followers to pay \u00a32.99 to find out the results of a pregnancy test.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the attempts to generate publicity, she then confirmed she was not pregnant.<\/p>\n<p>Scamming a string of women<\/p>\n<p>Days after Katie and Lee tied the knot, two of his exes accused him of being a &#8216;liar, narcissist and manipulator&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, it was then reported <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/03\/14\/katie-prices-husband-sent-voice-notes-begging-a-woman-cash-days-proposing-27426604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">he&#8217;d been begging women for money weeks before he married Katie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His ex Alana, then shared a post on Instagram calling him the \u2018Tinder Swindler\u2019 and claimed multiple women had contacted her saying he\u2019d tried to scam them out of money too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ghosting&#8217; his wife<\/p>\n<p>After Lee failed to return to the UK last week, Katie revealed she had concerns he&#8217;d been kidnapped and then <a data-ico=\"hyperlink-article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2026\/05\/17\/katie-prices-husband-lee-andrews-officially-a-missing-person-family-files-report-28409766\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported him as a missing person<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was then reported that Lee had actually \u2018ghosted\u2019 his wife and was \u2018squatting in a slightly run-down villa\u2019 in Dubai and using a burner phone.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun claimed he was \u2018frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Misleading claims of being a multi-millionaire business owner When Katie named Lee as her new partner, he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1078,96,2471,148574,1609,12414,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eastenders","tag-entertainment","tag-katie-price","tag-lee-andrews","tag-soaps","tag-soaps-showbiz","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659151","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=659151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}