Katie Price has hit out at her husband Lee Andrews after he abandoned her during their first live TV interview on Good Morning Britain.
The former glamour model, 47, was forced to do the interview alone on Wednesday after Andrews, 43, failed to arrive in the UK amid reports he had been “detained” at Dubai airport.
Price - who married Andrews in January just days after meeting him - defended him against rumours of a travel ban and insisted he had simply missed the flight due to business.
Now, however, the reality star has called out her controversial partner for making her “look like a massive d**k”.
On The Katie Price Show podcast, her sister Sophie said: “I feel like he is massively mugging you off. And he’s done it on live TV.”
Price replied: “I have said to him, ‘you’ve made me look like a d**k, you’ve made yourself look like a massive d**k.”
She went on: “It’s now become a soap opera something from EastEnders of ‘is he coming, isn’t he?’.
“It’s all been built up. This is why I want relationships – normally – more private”.
Price continued: “At the end of the day it’s between me and him, not really anyone else.
“But he hasn’t made it to the UK and I’ve said to him he needs to make it to the UK, because if he doesn’t, then there’s obviously something not right going on.”
On Thursday, GMB was forced to turn their joint interview into one with just Price at the last-minute, with host Susanna Reid saying: "Katie and her husband Lee were booked to appear and up until yesterday that was still the case."
Reid said the GMB team contacted the Foreign Office on Monday to see if Andrews had a travel ban after they were told he'd be a “no-show”.
The Foreign Office responded: "We supported a British man who was detained in the UAE."
Co-host Ed Balls asked Price if he had been arrested.
She said: "No, I feel like they just said it to me in there [backstage] so I just said to Lee, ‘Apparently a British man has been detained, can you confirm its not you?’ and he's done a voice note back and said it's not him and sent laughing emojis."
Price claimed Andrews - who has been branded a “liar and a narcissist” by two of his exes - was at the airport and had been sending her photos.
"He said, 'No, it's not me,' in a voice note. He's sent me pictures, he's at the airport and on his way," Price said.
"He's coming over to spend quite a few months now, he's sorting out my visa and my international driving license. He had things to do, didn't make the flight, because of all his business stuff he has to do."
Discussing their plans to appear on GMB, the reality star said: "We did the research chat and everything - but he is at the airport now and he is on his way. He said he'd even come on a Zoom."
When asked if Andrews was unreliable, Price insisted he wasn't to her.
Reid said: "What I love about you Katie is that you're very open, but I just wonder if he's telling you everything."
The former Page 3 model insisted: "I know no one believes me, your face says it all, [Reid]. I can't keep going to Dubai because I've got work and my kids here.
“He pays for it anyway but I can't keep going to Dubai so he's shifting over here. I said: 'I keep flying to you, you've got to come to England now.’”
When asked if the statement from the Foreign Office “raised a concern” for her, Price added: "No you've asked the question to them - they haven't come to you.
“He wouldn't have his phone, he wouldn't be at the airport, so it's definitely not Lee.”
She went on: “I've just had him on FaceTime at the airport; it's definitely not Lee. He does a lot of stuff. I know what he does, so I believe it."
When Andrews failed to arrive in the UK, GMB was forced to share a short clip from him thanking them for their invite but saying he had to miss out on this occasion.
It comes amid claims that Andrews has been banned from leaving the United Arab Emirates after spending three weeks in a Dubai jail, according to the Daily Mail.
He allegedly forged his former personal trainer partner Dina Taji’s signature to apply for a £200,000 mortgage in her name without her knowledge last year - something he strongly denies.
She found out about his alleged actions after the mortgage company rang her. She has reportedly filed a legal case against him.
According to Dubai law, individuals pending criminal investigations, including unpaid debts or civil lawsuits, are not legally allowed to leave the country.
Andrews has denied that he cannot leave the country.
Price and Andrews married in Dubai in January just days after meeting each other.
She described her romance with Andrews as a “wedding at first sight”, revealing they married after initially connecting online.
