LONDON — A former partner of Lee Andrews has come forward with fresh allegations about the Dubai-based British man at the centre of one of the year’s most tangled celebrity missing-person sagas, saying he sent her a video claiming to be in the United Kingdom under circumstances she found impossible to reconcile with what she already knew about him.
Alana Percival, who says she met Andrews on Facebook in March 2025, described the video as deeply strange and said it left her more confused than reassured. Her account adds another layer to a story that has already strained credulity at nearly every turn, placing Andrews at the intersection of a kidnapping claim, an apparent Dubai arrest, and a string of allegations from multiple women who say they were deceived by him in very similar ways.
The context matters. Andrews married former glamour model Katie Price in January 2026 after a courtship conducted almost entirely over social media. The couple had known each other only days before flying to the UAE and exchanging vows. By May, Andrews was supposed to accompany Price to a joint interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain — a programme that has itself had its share of on-air controversy — the kind of appearance that would have introduced him as her husband to a British television audience. He never made it. Instead, as reported, he posted a video on Instagram claiming to have been delayed on a flight from Muscat, Oman, telling followers he was still on his way to Britain.
Percival says she saw the same script before. She claims Andrews told her, during their relationship, that he was travelling toward her and shared similar video messages intended to explain why he had not arrived. When that pattern repeated with Price, Percival said she felt a sickening sense of recognition.
“It was deeply strange,” she said of the footage, as reported by Metro. “It just did not add up.” She declined to say precisely what detail struck her as inconsistent, but the thrust of her concern was clear: Andrews appeared to be in one place while telling her he was in another.
Percival has spoken publicly about Andrews since Price first disclosed his disappearance. She has described him in interviews as a conman and a scammer, and said she felt compelled to continue speaking out after seeing how closely Price’s account of events resembled her own experience. Per news reports, before vanishing from contact Andrews told Percival he was terminally ill, claiming to have travelled to Bali to consult heart specialists and warning her that his time was limited. He then proposed to leave her his assets, she alleges, including a Dubai flat she later moved into. None of those representations proved accurate, she says.
Those earlier claims were corroborated in texture, if not in every detail, by a second woman identified in reporting as Andrews’ ex-wife, who told journalists she was not surprised to learn he was in a Dubai jail and believed he had approximately 20 outstanding warrants for his arrest. That figure has not been independently verified. Andrews has not publicly addressed the specific allegations made by either woman.
Price, 48, married Andrews weeks after meeting him in person for the first time, a timeline that invited immediate scepticism from commentators and from her own family. Her children, Princess and Junior Andre, learned of the engagement by text message. On Good Morning Britain in March, Price defended the relationship, telling hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls that she had only ever been in love three times in her life and that Andrews felt right in a way she had not expected. “Do you ever really know anyone?” she said.
That question has since acquired an uncomfortable literalness. Price initially said she last heard from Andrews around 10 p.m. on May 13, when he called her on FaceTime appearing distressed, with what she described as ties around his hands and someone approaching him. She framed the call as evidence of a kidnapping. In the days that followed, however, the story shifted. His father suggested publicly that he had been arrested rather than abducted. Price herself later acknowledged that the kidnapping narrative may have been wrong, conceding her husband appeared to be in Dubai police custody rather than the hands of an anonymous captor.
The British Foreign Office has confirmed only that it is providing consular support to the family of a British man in Dubai and remains in contact with local authorities. No charges against Andrews have been publicly disclosed. Dubai police have not commented on the specific circumstances of any detention.
What Percival’s account contributes to the record is a pattern. The airport no-show, the video proof of travel that does not hold up under scrutiny, the terminal illness narrative, the proposal, the promises tied to assets: each element appears in her telling of what happened to her, and each has some echo in what Price has said about her experience. That parallel structure is what she finds hardest to dismiss. It is also, as earlier reporting has documented, a pattern with roots in the broader Dubai expat landscape, where elaborate personal fictions are not unheard of.
The Piers Morgan dimension of the story is, by comparison, almost a sideshow. Morgan was reported to have joked at the Chelsea Flower Show that he would find Andrews “for the nation,” framing it as a large act of public duty. The line was made for the gossip pages, but it captured something real about how the case has been received: as a celebrity spectacle absorbing an episode that, stripped of its famous participants, would read as a textbook romance-fraud investigation.
Luisa Zissman, a British television personality, flew to Dubai on what she described as an informal search, joking on Instagram that she would call out Andrews’ name in warehouses. The gesture was widely treated as comic, and it was unconnected to any official inquiry.
All of Percival’s allegations are unproven and untested in court. Andrews has not filed any public response to her specific claims. The facts that can be verified remain stubbornly few: he did not board his flight to London, he has been uncontactable for weeks, and the Foreign Office is involved. Whether what Percival describes as a deeply strange video represents a lie, a misunderstanding, or something else is not something anyone outside the immediate situation can say with confidence. What it does represent is one more account, from one more person, that the version of Lee Andrews presented to Katie Price was not the only version there was.
