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Katie Price has confirmed she will not be moving to Dubai with husband Lee Andrews after he claimed he had bought them a £36milllion home.
The former glamour model, 47, shocked fans when she married the so-called businessman, 42, in Dubai in January within 10 days of meeting him.
And despite her family sharing their concerns, several of his ex-partners making bombshell accusations and a slew of his claims about his finances, business acumen and celebrity-links being revealed as false – Katie is certain that Lee is the real deal.
In a new update on Monday, Katie shared a YouTube video, which has since been deleted, claiming she is not moving to Dubai, reports The Sun.
She said: ‘I don’t know why people think I’m moving to Dubai. My family’s here. The husband is there, but the husband come here and I can go to Dubai when I can.’
‘It’s a lot of hoo-ha,’ added Katie.
It comes days after Katie revealed that she has so much trust in her new husband that she declined to sign a pre-nup before their whirlwind wedding.
Insisting that she’s ‘not stupid’, she said Lee – who has claimed to be both a millionaire and billionaire previously – has shown her documents to attest to his wealth and has proof of purchase that he paid for his new £36million home in Dubai in cash.
Katie said she’s also done her due diligence by speaking to his father and his Russian ex-wife Cezara, and declares Lee ‘ticks every box’.
The besotted mother-of-five gushed to The Sun: ‘I thought I’d been in love before but this feels different. It’s not even about lust, it’s just instant connection on all levels. I fell in love with him long before I had sex with him.’
She said they first connected after Lee came up as a suggested follow on Instagram and she took the opportunity to slide into his DMs, with the pair going on to message back and forth up to five hours a day, before finally meeting in person in Dubai.
Yet her loved ones were said to have been blindsided by the whirlwind nuptials, and are reported to have expressed their concerns about the marriage and are ‘anxious this is a potential scam’.
However, Katie dismissed her family’s worries, insisting that she was not a kid and that ‘my life isn’t normal’, so they had to ‘let me be me’.
She acknowledged their feelings, saying: ‘Of course my family are going to worry, I wouldn’t expect anything different. They love me and they’ve seen me go through so much heartache, and the most horrific times.
‘So I don’t blame them for being p***ed off and angry. They love me and I love them too. But I’m not a kid any more, I am 47, I can make my own choices, and I will. They have to give me that chance to go and find out for myself.’
Katie’s sister Sophie has previously hinted at her disapproval of her new marriage and said their podcast would be ‘paused’ for the foreseeable future.
In January, she shared a video of rolling British fields with the caption: ‘This and never stepping foot in Dubai,’ after telling her followers she’d had ‘one hell of a week’ following news of the wedding.
While last month, she tellingly reposted a clip of physician Dr Gabor Maté discussing the various approaches that families can make in difficult times.
The video ends with the words: ‘I’m not going to try and change you. I just hope you come to your senses at some point. But I’ll be with you and I’ll be supporting you.’
While her five children are still yet to meet the businessman, eldest children Princess, 18, and Junior, 20, said on This Morning last month that the family are ‘happy as long as she’s happy’.
Daughter Princess admitted: ‘I’ve not met him’, as Junior continued: ‘Our mum is her own person, she’s her own woman, she’s going to do what she’s going to do and at the end of the day, we’re supportive of her as long as she’s happy.’
‘As long as she’s happy that’s all I care about,’ he added, as Princess chimed in: ‘If she’s happy, we’re happy.’
Lee and Katie maintain that they are very much in love and that he will be coming to the UK soon to have a bigger wedding with family and friends, despite frequent claims from his ex, Alana Percival that he is legally bound to the UAE.
While he has presented himself as a high-flying business mogul, the Daily Mail shattered the illusion by revealing that he has been banned from leaving Dubai after spending three weeks locked up in a UAE jail for allegedly forging his ex-girlfriend’s signature to secure a £200,000 loan.
He allegedly applied for a mortgage in personal trainer Dina Taji’s name last year without her consent.
Lee told the Daily Mail it was ‘complete b******s’ that he couldn’t leave.
Since they wed, Katie has returned home alone twice – despite Lee insisting he would join her both times.
There were also assertions that they would be going somewhere on honeymoon together, but they remained in Dubai.
This week, Lee revealed on his social media that Katie is coming back to Dubai via flying to Oman where he will pick her up, amid the conflict in the Middle East following US and Israeli strikes on Iran.
He said: ‘The flights have started to open. The flights are a bit backed up, but if not you can always go through Oman, it is next door and one of the neighbouring countries.
‘I’m not going to tell you all my plans but Katie would fly there and I would go to Oman and pick her up and bring her home because that’s what you do when you are married and in love, you try everything right? Or have I got that wrong?’
The UAE’s government travel advice states: ‘Due to the volatile security situation in the region and military strikes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), we’ve raised our level of advice for the UAE to do not travel.
‘The UAE airspace may open or close at short notice, impacting flights at Dubai and Abu Dhabi airports. Retaliatory strikes are occurring across the Middle East region following military strikes on Iran. Military conflict in the region may result in widespread movement restrictions, and other travel disruptions.’
