WELL, it’s fair to suggest I won’t be holidaying in Dubai any time soon.
As Jattvibe Club members will be aware, Katie Price was out in the UAE with me, tagging along for the ride. And what a ride it was.
Katie Price took The Jattvibe’s Clemmie Moodie along with her to Dubai last week, and revealed what she’s really going through Credit: Louis Wood
Clemmie joined Katie as she headed to the UAE to visit Dubai’s Al-Awir prison in the hopes of freeing her husband Credit: AFP
Indeed, my current Uber ride suggestion is “Al Awir prison”, where I spent much of my time hunting down the conman that is Lee Andrews.
Safely back on UK soil once more, I’ve now been warned that I, ironically, like Lee, face a travel ban if I ever attempt to enter Dubai again.
Authorities over there aren’t keen on anyone doing anything they think will damage their reputation.
So if Lee really is out of prison – as I revealed last night – I may face come logistical problems if he really is prepared to sit down for a grilling with me, as Kate hopes.
Certainly I want to. The women he has hurt need to be heard, and he MUST be held accountable for his deplorable actions.
Watch this space.
In the mean time, the reaction to our subsequent video interview has been next level.
Every day, I am bombarded with Instagram and TikTok messages and notifications from people wanting updates (or telling me they don’t like my eyebrows).
Quite how Katie, a woman I have known and liked for 20 years, deals with this level of attention 24/7 is beyond me. I am EXHAUSTED.
So how is the woman really at the centre of this story, arguably the biggest – certainly most talked about – showbiz drama of the past 10 years?
She’s OK.
I’ve been checking in on her regularly, and yes, the fascination with her love life is somewhat overwhelming, even for her; a woman has lived and breathed the media for over three decades.
She was due to appear on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, but that was cancelled in the wake of the pandemonium (our interview).
The trolling has been next level, and makes for deeply uncomfortable viewing.
Why “fans” bother following her only to pour a barrage of abuse on a woman who is trying to muster the strength to leave yet another wrong’un is beyond me.
This has been a hard lesson in just how cruel, unhappy people can be.
(That being said, we have also both received hundreds of absolutely lovely messages from kind people, wishing her well, and sharing their own Lee-esque stories).
Kate told me to ignore the haters – not to read the vitriol or take it seriously. She is one tough cookie, and most of us would crumble under such scrutiny.
Katie’s elusive other half, Lee Andrews, remains locked up in the once-notorious prison, where he is being charged with three cases of fraud Credit: mistraesthetics/Instagram
This marriage has turned out to be Katie’s wildest chapter yet, with fans even beginning a manhunt for her husband, Lee, when he went off the radar last month Credit: Instagram/@wesleeeandrews
From being left solo on live TV to worrying Lee was kidnapped, Katie has been on the receiving end of endless amounts of hate for her husband’s bizarre behaviour Credit: Louis Wood
But Katie – who has opened up to Clemmie several times over the years – made it clear to Clemmie she isn’t letting the dramatics of her personal life break her Credit: Paul Edwards
But as she told me: “I’ve been broken before. I have done the work on myself, and I will never let another man break me. I am strong, and I am in good spirits.”
She also thanked Jattvibe readers for their support.
Katie told me she just wanted to focus on herself and her family for now, and knuckle down to focus on a plethora of work commitments, which, of course, include the promotion of her forthcoming Sky doc – an unmissable three-part series on this one-woman British institution.
Unsurprisingly, she has been inundated by production companies, all hoping to make the next Tindler Swindler. (As have I).
I’m told she is seriously tempted – but will wait and see how the Lee saga plays out.
After all, any decent doc requires a good beginning, middle and end – and with my shock revelation that he is OUT of prison last night, we might be entering the End Game.
Katie has also met up with Lee’s ex-girlfriend, Dina, and she was visibly shaken in the immediate aftermath of that meeting.
She was confronted with damning evidence of Lee’s bad behaviour, and, deep down, I genuinely believe Kate knows she cannot be with a man like Lee.
The problem is, she is still blinded by love. Well, his love bombing to be precise.
The mum of five, though, does need closure. And that, surely, means a face-to-face meeting where she can put the seemingly endless allegations to him, and watch him squirm.
I’m not sure even master windbag Lee can talk himself out of this fine mess.
