Katie Price asked to front TV appeal to find missing husband as friends reveal reason why she’s afraid to go to Dubai
KATIE Price says police have asked her to launch a missing person’s TV appeal in Dubai as the search for her vanished husband Lee Andrews continues.
The former glamour model, 48, claims cops told her they want her to front an international hunt for the conman.
Lee, who has not been seen in public for 12 days, was spotted online on Instagram yesterday.
His main phone has also been switched back on, with WhatsApps now being delivered.
Lee’s dad Peter claimed over the weekend that his son had been arrested. But when The Sun contacted police in Dubai they refused to confirm that.
A source said: “Katie has been in almost daily contacts with police, at least two different units.
“On Friday she was asked if she would appear on television and officially appeal for information on her missing husband.
“It all feels very surreal and like the thing you’d see on an ITV primetime drama. Of course, she doesn’t want to go on telly pleading for new intel if he really is on the run — and ghosting her.
“But she will do all she can to help, even if that means launching an international manhunt.
“She wants him found safe and sound.” Katie is convinced that Lee is not in prison, and believes that someone may have kidnapped him after he claimed to be tied up in the back of a van.
A friend added: “Even for Kate, this has been the weirdest two weeks of her life.
“She simply cannot get her head around what is going on.”
While Katie wants to fly to Dubai as the hunt for the dodgy businessman continues, it is understood she fears being detained if she does so.
Last week a Sun investigation exposed Lee’s fraudulent ways.
Two of his ex-girlfriends have also gone on the record to say he is a conman who ripped them off.
His CV has been dismantled bit by bit, with photos of him with US reality star Kim Kardashian and Tesla billionaire Elon Musk proved to have been faked by AI.
Kim’s US team even took the unprecedented step of formally denying the star had ever met Lee.
He also has a travel ban following a stint in prison for fraud last October, meaning he cannot leave the United Arab Emirates.
The negative publicity — something UAE officials do not take kindly to — means he will likely be “red-flagged” on their system.
His wife, Katie, would also likely be regarded as a person of interest.
A source added: “Katie is desperate to get back out to Dubai but with everything going on, it is just too much of a risk right now.
“She also has work and family commitments back in the UK, and is trying to trust the police to get on with their job and locate her husband.”
Mum-of-five Katie and Lee met online at the start of this year and married within days.
In an interview with The Sun, Katie denied he was a conman, calling him the “love of her life”.