Katie Price’s husband Lee Andrews punched Kerry Katona’s boyfriend in a furious row in Dubai, it has been reported.
The former glamour model, 47, shocked fans last month when she revealed she had tied the knot for the fourth time to the so-called businessman, 43.
Kerry, 45, and her toyboy beau, 33, jetted off to the UAE for a sun-kissed Valentine’s Day trip, where they joined Katie and her new husband.
However, the Atomic Kitten star and boyfriend Paolo Margaglione flew home after just 14 hours following the alleged altercation.
The news comes amid increasing concern from Katie’s family about her new marriage with fears Lee is scamming her.
Following the announcement that Katie and Lee are planning to ‘have a baby’, there have been claims he has been ‘piggybacking off his wife for fame and followers’.
Katie Price’s husband Lee Andrews punched Kerry Katona’s boyfriend in a furious row in Dubai, it has been reported
Now Kerry and Katie’s 22-year friendship is said to have become strained by the bust-up between their partners.
The pair first became close when they starred in I’m A Celebrity together in 2004 and last year went on tour together.
The punch-up was said to have happened when Paolo deemed Lee to be talking to Katie in an ‘aggressive manner’.
‘Lee was having some cross words with Katie. Paolo then appeared and stepped in. Lee seemed to be very angry and was shouting at him,’ a source told The Sun.
‘It all got very heated and Lee threw some punches and one of them landed Paolo square on the head. It was crazy to see this play out. The situation seemed to be pretty heated but then it erupted very quickly. It all happened so fast.’
The insider said Paolo was ‘shocked’, while Katie was also said to reeling from the unexpected fall out.
Daily Mail has contacted Kerry’s representatives and Lee for comment. Katie’s representative declined to comment.
Kerry said this week their holiday was cut short because of a ‘work emergency’ – but now sources have said she is ‘really upset’ with what happened.
Kerry, 45, and her toyboy beau, 33, jetted off to the UAE for a sun-kissed Valentine’s Day trip to join Katie and her new husband
Katie’s new husband Lee Andrews has been lapping up his newfound fame ever since he married the former glamour model
Katie had claimed she was having Lee’s child in a fiery Instagram post on Wednesday, hitting back at a post by his ex Alana
Almost every post on Lee’s social media features or endorses Katie as he continues to share their lavish life in Dubai
Kerry wasn’t said to be present when the alleged row took place but heard about it from Paolo.
The insider added the TV personality ‘loves Katie’ but has now ‘seen a side to Lee they don’t like’.
On Thursday, Lee gloated about his huge social media engagement on Instagram, which revealed he has been getting over 51 million daily views across his platforms
He has also been promoting Katie’s alleged new candle and soap collection which is believed to be another one of his AI-generated stunts after fans picked up on the unusual labelling on some of the products
In her new! magazine column, Kerry didn’t mention the fall out but did say it was an abrupt end to the holiday.
She wrote: ‘Unfortunately during the trip, Paolo had to go back to the UK for a work emergency.
‘I got to spend literally 14 hours with him before he had to leave, which meant I was left alone in Dubai, which we were both gutted about.’
According to his LinkedIn profile, Paolo is a managing director at Eco Bag UK, a company which recycles and manufactures plastic into refuse sacks for retail and wholesale. He previously worked as a personal trainer.
Kerry found love with Paolo after meeting on Celebs Go Dating, which began filming in April.
Meanwhile, Katie connected to Lee on social media before flying out to marry him in a whirlwind romance that shocked her friends and family.
Almost every post on Lee’s social media features or endorses Katie as he continues to share their lavish life in Dubai.
The self-proclaimed billionaire has over 127,000 followers and is thought to be making ‘$5,000-$10,000 (£3,000-£7,400) through sponsored posts’.
On Thursday, Lee gloated about his huge social media engagement on Instagram, which revealed he has been getting over 51 million daily views across his platforms.
He has also been promoting Katie’s alleged new candle and soap collection which is believed to be another one of his AI-generated stunts after fans picked up on the unusual labelling on some of the products.
Lee is not new to the use of artificial intelligence in his posts as many of his pictures are believed to be airbrushed. Multiple of his unfiltered photos show him looking a far cry from his jazzed up selfies on Instagram.
In their first month of marriage, Katie is said to have already put a deposit down on a house in the UAE.
Lee teased what their future family home would look like last week, sharing an AI-generated mock-up of a three-storey mansion features bedrooms for guests, children and their parents as well as his and her cars.
Meanwhile, Katie sent the internet into meltdown when she claimed in an Instagram post on Wednesday that the couple are ‘having a baby’.
Friends of the star have also shared the ‘sad truth’ behind Katie’s recent baby bombshell with Daily Mail. You can read our full report here.
Katie had claimed she was having Lee’s child in a fiery Instagram post on Wednesday, hitting back at a post by his ex Alana.
She wrote: ‘@larnaapercival I know rejection doesn’t feel nice and I’m married to @wesleeeandrews the man you want and will never have again.
‘Your constant lies and put-downs is clearly showing how bitter you are, go live your life little girl. I know the truth and your now embarrassing yourself, go and have the little respect for yourself that’s left.
‘I know all about you and who you are at least I’m the real woman he has found and deserves, but please just enjoy watching us build our empire as I’m having his child.
‘I’ll enjoy the ride and big d**k energy now, I’m in the saddle, he’s the most beautiful human I know who never took anything from you. I’m the real feminine woman he deserves, not the male version you are.
‘Now disappear under that bridge you irrelevant little troll.’
While Lee 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.
Since then, several of Lee’s exes have spoken out, with Alana declaring in an interview that Katie should ‘run for the hills.’
On Wednesday, she shared a scathing post where she accused him of ‘taking everything you have until you have nothing left and have to rely on him.’
In a lengthy message, Alana also claimed Lee ‘f****d over his own father many times,’ and hit back at accusations she is ‘jealous’ of his marriage to Katie.
She wrote: ‘Also jealous and bitter? Hahahaha I can tell you this is not me at all, Lee is dead to me.
‘I am concerned because of his patterns and behaviour with women. I was just like Katie, ignored everyone. I WISH I LISTENED.
‘Get your facts right, please tell me what there is to be jealous and bitter about, vile vermin of a human. He is a scum bag that robs poor women for their money. Escorts himself out. Lies about everything that comes out of his mouth.
‘Cars, house, who he lends money to, pretends to work with royals and every other ambassador in the world… promises with no delivery, always an excuse.
‘F*****d up fantasies (if not what he has already done) (I cannot get into this on here). Mentally and physically hurts people he loves, arrogant, f****d his own father over many of times got him a travel ban too!!
‘He has no remorse at all for anyone… the list could go on!!! Also not even your f****g hair line wants to be with you, EVERY PICTURE HE PUTS UP IS EDITED too. Nothing to be jealous about this ugly scummy disgusting piece of s**t.
‘Again saying he is coming to the UK today – we’ll watch this space. The most insecure person I’ve ever met, so bad that he will take everything from you so you rely on him.’
Lee connected to Alana on Facebook last March and showered her with a Louis Vuitton handbag, Cartier jewellery and transferred thousands of pounds.
He proposed in September and the set-up was identical to Katie’s engagement at the Jumeirah Burj Al Arab.
Alana said as soon as she posted a picture of their engagement, she was contacted by his estranged Russian wife Cezara and two other exes, who claimed he was a ‘liar’.
Despite their warnings, Alana, who has since branded him a ‘lying swindler’, said she thought their relationships had just ended badly as she ‘never had someone basically tell me that they love me the way he does’.
Alana, who sold a house to Katie 15 years ago and called off their engagement in November, told The Sun: ‘Katie should run for the hills, Lee is a liar, a narcissist and I think he’s a manipulator. Once I tried to leave him, he told me had a heart condition and was living on borrowed time. Lee doesn’t know what’s fact and what’s fiction.’
Katie is currently in Dubai with Lee, having initially returned to the UK after their nuptials, where he was due to follow her
Meanwhile, another of Lee’s exes, Crystal Janke, has claimed Lee hoodwinked her into handing over £123,000 to invest in his company, on the promise he could get a ‘return of £1million’.
The family nurse practitioner from Texas, who started a romance with Lee last May, claimed she had been scammed and fears her money was spent by Lee on lavish gifts for Alana, who he was dating at the same time.
Lee denies these claims.
Katie appeared to hit back at Lee’s exes in a post on Instagram Stories, where she reshared a quote which read: ‘Be careful what you hear about a female.
‘Rumours either came from a male that can’t have her or a female that can’t compete with her.’
Lee teased plans for a baby following Katie previously exploring surrogacy amid her relationship with Carl Woods and claiming that she had already found someone who could carry her sixth child.
Speaking about plans to grow her family in 2023, Katie told the Turning Adversity Into An Asset podcast: ‘I have got a surrogate, I haven’t got any eggs anymore, I’m 44, I want another baby so what am I supposed to do? I can’t pop it out,’
‘I have got a surrogate, I haven’t got any eggs anymore, I’m 44, I want another baby so what am I supposed to do? I can’t pop it out.’
When host Lewis Raymond Taylor asked who would be having the baby, Katie said: ‘I have got this lady, it will be my egg – she’s been a fan of mine for years and she does do surrogacy.’
Asked who the father would be, Katie replied: ‘If I was with someone it would be with them, if not it would be a sperm donor.’
However the surrogate then pulled out after being ‘disrespected’ by Katie, who she claims treated her and her four children like ‘s***’.
Katie is currently in Dubai with Lee, having initially returned to the UK after their nuptials, where he was due to follow her.
However, the Daily Mail previously revealed Lee spent three weeks locked up in a UAE jail for allegedly forging his ex-girlfriend’s signature to take out a £200,000 loan in his ex’s name.
Insiders told the Daily Mail that he allegedly applied for a £200,000 mortgage on behalf of personal trainer partner Dina Taji without her knowledge last year.
It was claimed that as a result, he was banned from leaving the country, though Lee denies this. He has yet to leave the UAE.
According to Dubai law, individuals pending criminal investigations, including unpaid debts or civil lawsuits, are not legally allowed to leave the country. The woman reported Lee to the authorities in Dubai who investigated her claim.
Meanwhile, Katie and Lee have insisted they will be jetting to the UK in the coming days following their honeymoon.
Taking to Lee’s Instagram Stories on Monday the newlyweds told fans that they would be flying back ‘within days’ and joked that England should ‘watch out’.
In the clip, Katie said: ‘So we are still in Dubai and we will be coming to England very soon.’
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