Her husband’s bizarre disappearance is an unexplained mystery right up there with UFOs and the Loch Ness Monster, but Katie Price had other concerns as she took to Instagram on Tuesday.
While the Foreign Office attempt to discover the whereabouts of Dubai-based businessman Lee Andrews, Price was plugging CBD oil on social media with the promise of a generous discount.
The former glamour model’s continued promotion of health and wellness products, primarily ‘stress relieving’ oils and gummies, has been a recurrent theme since Andrews vanished without trace in the United Arab Emirates earlier this month.
Sharing her latest promotional post as hot and bothered Brits struggled to cope with the ongoing heatwave, Price, 48, claimed she had the perfect remedy in the form of CBD drops designed to encourage sleep.
Captioning her latest ad, she wrote: ‘It’s sooo hot outside, when the weather is like this I find it so hard to stay asleep through the night, I know a lot of people are the same!
‘I took my oil last night before bed and slept through for 8 hours no waking up and as you all know it has been helping my anxiety too with everything going on at the moment, thank you for all of the messages.’
Katie Price urged social media followers to buy CBD oil in a paid promotional post on Tuesday, while her husband remains missing in the United Arab Emirates
Andrews, Price’s fourth husband, vanished on May 13 in what she claimed was a kidnapping after he ‘went dark’ on her at the Dubai-Oman border.
The TV personality alleged he’d disappeared mid-conversation as he was telling her he’d been arrested and ‘bundled into a van’ while hooded and with his hands tied.
The Foreign Office have now stepped in to try find the missing businessman.
A spokesperson said: ‘We are supporting the family of a British man and are in contact with the local authorities.’
Andrews’ alleged ‘kidnap’ story eerily resembles the ordeal suffered by British grandfather Albert Douglas, 63, who lived in Dubai and was arrested for financial fraud in 2019.
Albert spent the following four years suffering in a series of high-security jails where he was tortured by guards, deprived of food and water, and witnessed the rape and suicides of fellow inmates.
The British millionaire was sentenced to three years in prison in February 2021, after months spent in detention, over his son’s company’s bounced cheques – despite evidence proving his own innocence.
After his initial arrest in 2019, Douglas was given bail while awaiting his court date and spent more than £850,000 on legal fees protesting his innocence.
Fearing he would be imprisoned for life and not given access to a fair trial, Douglas attempted to flee detention in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, by crossing the border to Oman with the help of hired smugglers.
He was arrested in February 2021, stripped and hooded, before being jailed in Al Ain Prison. He was then transferred to a series of facilities in Dubai including Dur Dubai police station, Al Barsha and Al Awir Central Prison over the next several years.
He was finally released last December and reunited with his family.
Douglas’s real-life kidnap ordeal bears resemblance to the story Andrews gave his wife, and now a businessman with whom he shares mutual friends claims he’s more than capable of dreaming up the scenario.
Lee Andrews, Price’s fourth husband, vanished on May 13 in what she claimed was a kidnapping after he ‘went dark’ on her at the Dubai-Oman border
He told The Sun: ‘Lee is the type of person to read a story and then imagine it into reality. There are lots of similarities between their stories.
‘Lee could easily have made this all up based on Albert’s story, as it’s been in the UK press recently, and just be hiding out.’
On Monday, Price posted about being heartbroken amid his disappearance as she shared a graphic with red love hearts on.
The first heart showed a broken heart with a sad face and the caption: ‘Without you’, while the next showed a stitched-up heart and the words: ‘When I see you.’
The final heart was fully formed and accompanied by the message: ‘When I’m with you.’
She also shared a quote that read: ‘I choose you and I’ll choose you over and over and over. Without pause, without a doubt, in a heartbeat I’ll keep choosing you.’
Price last spoke to her husband when he was trying to board a 10pm flight from Dubai to Britain.
They had been due to appear on Good Morning Britain for their first joint interview, but Andrews failed to make it over to the UK.
Ever since, Price has been begging fans to help locate her ‘kidnapped’ husband, who she says, was last known to be tied up in the back of a van.
The TV personality alleged he’d disappeared mid-conversation as he was telling her he’d been arrested and ‘bundled into a van’ while hooded and with his hands tied
However, on Saturday, his long-suffering father Peter – who is one of the few people in Dubai to support him – told the Daily Mail that his son has been arrested by the UAE authorities and is currently in prison.
He said: ‘Lee is OK. He has not been kidnapped but he is under arrest. I don’t know on what charge. I’m not sure where he is being held. But he will call me later today.’
‘He is not at my house,’ he added, while a police source said: ‘Lee Andrews has been arrested.’
And the chief of Dubai Police has confirmed that he is the subject of a number of arrest warrants, mainly for fraud.
Brigadier Khalid Khalifa al Avadhi told the Daily Mail: ‘There are many cases against him.’
However, the mystery surrounding Andrews’ absence has continued to deepen, first after he appeared to still be active on social media, and now with fresh claims that he has been using his mobile phone.
A source has claimed that one of his phones had been turned back on Sunday morning as they told The Sun: ‘I had been messaging Lee and was getting no response.
‘But on Sunday morning, my messages had gone from a single tick to a double – so that device is back on and being used. Lee has multiple phones but this is the one that is being used now.’
