Lee Andrews has once more promised he’s leaving Dubai behind and jetting to the UK to reunite with his wife.
Since marrying reality star Katie Price, 48, in January after a whirlwind romance, Lee has yet to put a single foot on England’s pastures green, instead having Katie fly out to the UAE regularly to keep the spark in their long-distance marriage alive.
He’s firmly pushed back against reports that he has a travel ban in place, although he has yet to prove it by actually leaving the city.
In May, ITV show Good Morning Britain announced Lee was jetting in to join Katie on the sofa, and he even sent them a video of himself at Dubai airport with a passport in hand.
But he never materialised, with Katie claiming the self-proclaimed millionaire had got caught up doing ‘business things’. Shortly after, he went missing and was discovered in prison in Dubai, from which he has since been released.
Despite The Sun confirming he was in jail over unpaid debts, he continues to double down on the story that he was captured by gunmen over suspicion of espionage.
In the meantime, he’s found a new money-making scheme by offering paid-for cameos (personalised video messages) to fans. In a recent one sent to TikTok user Camillarhuda, he even shed light on his plans to finally enter the UK.
Camilla posted a cameo she received asking Lee for marriage advice when your other half is in Dubai.
His advice covered all the classics, like ‘saying good morning and good night every day’, remembering which time zones each of you is in and showing your face on video whenever you can. Who knew he was such a romantic!
After regaling his pearls of wisdom, he turned to his own circumstances, telling Camilla: ‘I will be coming to the UK, despite what everyone’s saying. I’m on my way soon, so I’ll be giving Dubai up a little bit.’
As expected, he’s not given a concrete timeline on when he expects to land, but Katie remains supportive of her husband despite the lengthy list of claims accusing him of being a conman, scammer and liar, especially stemming from his ex-girlfriend Alana Percival.
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’.
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He may also face another hurdle in his plans to make his way over to Katie, with reports that he could be facing a return to jail.
The Sun has now confirmed that Lee was jailed over unpaid debts, including to a law firm, which he now has 14 days to repay or risk returning ot prison.
He is said to owe 266,060 Dirhams (£54,000) to a rent-a-car company, Rotana Star, which dates back to 2022.
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The second case, which sparked the arrest warrant, pertained to 74,817.50 Dirhams (£15,000) owed to a UAE legal firm, which is likely unpaid legal fees.
If he does make it to England, however, he’s already declared he plans to push back at Susanna Reid’s scepticism on GMB, and has even gone as far as to say she should ‘lose her job’ for not believing his story.
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