Lee Andrews' final texts to Katie Price have reportedly emerged after she said he vanished for days while attempting to leave Dubai and return to the United Kingdom for a television interview.
Price, 47, posted a plea on social media after Andrews failed to make the trip, saying she had not heard from him since Wednesday night. In a YouTube video, she said both she and his family were deeply concerned and had contacted police.
“Lee has been missing for three days. The last time I heard from Lee was Wednesday night at 10 o’clock,” she said.
What Katie Price said about his disappearance
Price told viewers Andrews had been trying to cross the border in Dubai to board a flight to meet her when contact stopped.
“He was trying to go through the border in Dubai to get on a flight to me… and this is so, so discombobulating,” she said. “His location went off at 10:03 Wednesday night; that’s the last contact anyone’s had, his family and myself.”
She added that she feared he may have been “kidnapped,” a serious claim and not exactly the kind of detail anyone wants to be improvising in a missing-person appeal.
According to Price, the alarm was raised after Andrews failed to return to the UK as planned. She said his family were also unable to reach him, which prompted them to involve authorities.
What the reported WhatsApp messages said
The Sun reported that it had seen messages allegedly sent by Andrews to Price between 12.36am and 1.01am local time in Dubai last Thursday.
In the texts, Andrews allegedly claimed he had been arrested near a “black site,” a term used for a covert government detention centre.
One reported message read: “Been arrested. I’ll be in touch. I’m ok xx.”
Price is said to have replied within five minutes, asking: “Where? Why? I’m worried,” before telling him she loved him.
Andrews then reportedly said he did not know where he was because his “other phone” had been taken. Price allegedly responded: “If they take your phone how will I get hold of you? Should I have your dad’s number?”
The reported exchange then became more urgent. Andrews is said to have shared his live location with Price and told her to contact the British embassy, claiming he was being taken to a “black site.”
According to the report, the live location ended alongside the message: “Keep that on babe. Love you.”
He then allegedly texted: “It’s a black site, I love you, I sort it. I’m in the van… just being detained wtf.”
A friend says Price was not part of any stunt
A friend speaking to The Sun said Price had been “spiralling” since the messages and argued they showed Andrews’ disappearance was not a publicity stunt.
“These WhatsApps prove that she is as blindsided as the rest of us as to Lee’s movements,” the friend said. “She is not in on it, whatever ‘it’ is.”
The friend added: “She wants anyone with information to contact her or the police with information that might help find him.”
That detail matters because the story has already been surrounded by conflicting claims, including questions about Andrews’ whereabouts and whether he was genuinely missing.
Earlier reports placed Andrews at a Dubai villa
The same publication previously reported that Andrews had “ghosted” his wife and was “squatting in a slightly run-down villa” in Dubai.
A source claimed he was “frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in.”
Andrews has lived in Dubai for decades and has spoken publicly about what he describes as his business success. However, reports have noted that there is limited evidence supporting some of those claims.
The situation remains unclear. What is established is that Price publicly said he had been missing for days, that she and his family had contacted police, and that reported messages now suggest Andrews claimed he was detained before communication stopped.
