harvey price is still waiting for Lee Andrews to call back after Peter Andrews said his son is under arrest in Dubai. The latest claim shifts this from a missing-person scare to a detention case, with the family now saying Andrews has been out of contact for 11 days.
Peter Andrews said, “Lee is OK. He has not been kidnapped, but he is under arrest. I don't know on what charge,” and added, “I'm not sure where he is being held. But he will call me later today.” Those details matter because they are the first direct account of Andrews’s status since Price first raised the alarm publicly on 16 May.
Peter Andrews in Dubai
Peter Andrews said his son has been detained by UAE authorities, but he could not say where. That leaves Price and her family with a narrow set of facts: Andrews is alive, he is not being described as kidnapped by his father, and the contact line they are waiting on is a call later today.
Price had said last weekend that she had not heard from Andrews and feared he may have been kidnapped. She also said the Criminal Investigation Department in Dubai was looking for him, while adding that no one could find any record of him being detained in any prison or police station in the country.
January marriage to Lee Andrews
The case has drawn attention because Price married Dubai-based businessman Lee Andrews in January after first meeting him just days earlier. The short marriage and long-distance setup left her dependent on contact from Dubai, and that is why an 11-day silence now carries more weight than a routine celebrity absence.
Price said Andrews was due to fly from Dubai to the UK for an appearance on Good Morning Britain. The University of Cambridge also disputed Andrews’s claims that he earned a PhD from the institution, adding another unresolved part of his public profile while the arrest claim hangs over the family.
16 May alarm
Price first raised the alarm publicly on 16 May in a YouTube video, saying, “I don’t really know where to begin but I know there’s all this speculation about Lee from when I met him.” In that same video, she added, “Something really, really serious has happened.”
With Peter Andrews now saying a call is due later today, the immediate next step is simple: either Lee Andrews reaches his father, or the family’s account stays one step ahead of the official record. For Price, that means the public story has moved past rumor and into the far less tidy business of trying to locate a husband in a foreign legal system.
