Katie Price admits she's 'given up search' for missing husband Lee Andrews

UK media personality Katie Price has officially given up the search for missing husband Lee Andrews, saying she is now leaving the matter in the hands of police.

The former Glamour model, 47, has said she will not allow the disappearance of her businessman husband to "ruin her life" in the interim.

Speaking on the latest episode of The Katie Price Show podcast, she said: "There's nothing I can do, nothing more that I can say."

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Now at a loss, she has confirmed she intends to "leave it with the police" going forward.

"I'm not gonna talk about it anymore, I'm just staying quiet because it's getting ridiculous now, people just taking the p--s out of everything," she said.

She said that while the UK police and Interpol handle the search, "all I can do is just get on with my life."

"I've got lots of exciting things coming up, and I'm just waiting for a call. What am I supposed to do, sit here and cry and do nothing, stay in bed? For my own sanity, I'm taking a step back," Price said.

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Following their wedding in January – which came just weeks after they first met – Price spent time jetting back and forth between the UK and Dubai, where Andrews lived.

After their whirlwind marriage, British media reported that Andrews was banned from leaving Dubai for allegedly forging his ex-girlfriend's signature to secure a $374,000 loan.

Flags were raised when Andrews failed to board his flight to the UK for a joint interview with Price on Good Morning Britain – which would have been their first TV appearance as a couple.

Since then, Price has made countless attempts to contact her missing husband, and has remained in communication with Andrews' family throughout this period.

The update on the search comes days after Price shared a YouTube video confirming that Andrews had "been missing for three days."

"We got in contact with the police out in Dubai and I've got a head of CID out there, so it's really worrying because me and Lee are in constant, constant contact all the time," she previously said of the situation on her YouTube channel.

Speaking to The Sun a source claimed that "Lee is officially a missing person now. Katie is in constant contact with his family and is desperately worried,"

"And she's mortified – she's seen people calling it a stunt and that she must be in on it, but she's absolutely not.

"This is such a worrying, upsetting situation."

Price previously opened up and shared details of their last phone call.

She revealed that the last time she'd heard from her husband was on Wednesday night at 10pm local time, as he was trying to cross the border in Oman, near Dubai.

"He was trying to go through the border in Dubai to get on a flight to me," she said, adding the situation was "just discombobulating."

The media personality claimed in his last call, Lee was wearing a hood and seemed to be in an old van with his hands tied in front of him.

Since then, Andrews has been widely speculated to be a romance fraudster.

Addressing these rumours in her lengthy YouTube video, Price said: "I know there's all this stuff online that he's a con-man, he's a scammer, but I just want to find him."

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