Katie Price's “missing” husband Lee Andrews has reportedly been arrested in Dubai, according to his father.
He said his son was being detained in the Gulf state, amid reports that he was in prison.
Andrews 42, disappeared 11 days ago and since then mystery has surrounded his whereabouts.
He had sent ex-glamour model Price a video of him hooded with his hands seemingly tied after being 'bundled into a van' and allegedly taken to a 'black site'.
At the time he was said to have been trying to make his way back to London to be with her, having sent her a string of messages and voice calls suggesting he had been kidnapped.
The mystery deepened further when his father Peter told the Daily Mail that Andrews has been arrested by the UAE authorities.
'Lee is OK. He has not been kidnapped but he is under arrest. I don't know on what charge,” he said.
“I'm not sure where he is being held. But he will call me later today.
“'He is not at my house,” in Dubai.
A police source reportedly told The Mail: “Lee Andrews has been arrested.”
Mother-of-five Price appeared to have been snubbed by Andrews on her 48th birthday while the controversial businessman seemed to be active on Instagram.
She said on Wednesday that she was “giving up the search” for him a week after he vanished.
She had previously voiced concerns that he had been kidnapped at the Dubai border while he was trying to get to the UK for a joint GMB interview.
The former model was said to be “disgusted and appalled” after Andrews, whom she married in January just days after meeting him, failed to contact her on Friday.
Close friends of hers were reportedly horrified by his actions, especially as he apparently followed a mystery woman on social media.
“Katie is disgusted and appalled,” a source told The Sun.
Andrews had claimed he wouldn’t have access to his phone before going missing.
However, on Thursday night he appeared to follow a woman called Mari Sol, who has around 800 followers and describes herself as a “biker babe” and a “navy veteran”.
Price has claimed that she believes her husband was detained at the Dubai border and kidnapped.
On Tuesday, the TV star shared the last text messages she said she had received from Andrews’ phone.
One message read: “Been arrested, I’ll be in touch I’m ok xx.”
But adding to the confusion, he then suggested in another message that he had not been arrested at all.
Instead, he claimed he had been put in a van and taken to an unknown location.
According to The Sun, he wrote: “It’s a black site, I love you, I sort it. I’m in the van… just being detained wtf.”
He reportedly asked Price to keep tracking his live location, saying: “Keep that on babe love you.”
She also said when she spoke to him on another day that he had said he had “ties around his hands and was in a van” and his location tracker subsequently went off.
It was reported on Monday that Andrews’ family had filed a missing persons report at the British Embassy in Dubai.
Andrews has faced accusations he is a conman and Price's family have shared their fears about her whirlwind relationship with him in the past.
He has been branded a “liar and a narcissist” by two of his exes.
He has strenuously denied the conman claims along with allegations that he is unable to leave the UAE due to a travel ban.
Andrews was reportedly banned from leaving Dubai after allegedly spending three weeks in a UAE jail over claims he forged an ex-girlfriend’s signature to secure a £200,000 loan, according to the Mail.
It was also alleged that he applied for a mortgage in his ex’s name without her consent. Andrews has denied the claims.
The British Foreign Office has been alerted but consular staff in Dubai have reportedly been unable to find any trace of him.
The Dubai authorities were also said to have previously denied any knowledge of his whereabouts.
