Lee Andrews 'boasted he was an arms dealer who worked with dangerous people' in the weeks before his mystery disappearance, according to reports. 

The self-called businessman, 42, who married Katie Price back in January after a whirlwind 10-day romance, has been missing since last week. 

The troubled glamour model, 47, last spoke to her husband when he was trying to board a 10pm flight from Dubai to Britain on Wednesday last week. 

They had been due to appear on Good Morning Britain for their first joint interview, but Lee failed to make it over to the UK. 

Ever since, Katie has been begging fans to help locate her 'kidnapped' husband, who she says, was last known to be tied up in the back of a van. 

Now, insiders have claimed in the weeks leading to Lee's disappearance that he boasted about being 'an arms dealer to anyone who cared to listen' and now his mystery disappearance is 'as if he's been writing a storyline'.

'Lee said he had many jobs, one being an international arms dealer. He seemed really proud of it,' a source told The Sun. 

'He boasted repeatedly to anyone who cared to listen that he worked with dangerous people. He bragged about it and then he gets kidnapped. It’s almost as if he’s been writing a storyline.' 

The Daily Mail has contacted Katie's representative for comment. 

Katie has said she believes Lee has been kidnapped, after he 'went dark' mid conversation last week.  

The model has released her last communication with Lee in the hope it will help track him down.

In the messages, which were sent from 12.36am to 1.01am early last Thursday morning in Dubai time, the so-called 'businessman' told her: 'Been arrested. I'll be in touch. I'm ok xx.'

Trying to get more details, Katie replied within five minutes asking him: 'Where? Why? I'm worried' and told her husband she loved him.

Lee then revealed he didn't know where he was being taken as they had his 'other phone'.

Katie asked: 'If they take your phone how will I get hold of you? Should I have your dad's number?'

Lee shared his live location and told her to contact the embassy and that he was being taken to a 'black site'.

The Sun also reports he gave his father's number to Katie as an emergency contact. 

The live location then ended with the message: 'Keep that on babe. Love you'. 

Lee then appeared to backtrack on his claims that he was arrested as he told Katie: 'It’s a black site, I love you, I sort it. I’m in the van… just being detained wtf.'

A friend told The Sun: 'Katie has been completely spiralling, as you can imagine. This is NOT a publicity stunt – as if she needs any more PR – and no matter what Lee has or hasn't done, she still loves him.

'These WhatsApps prove that she is as blindsided as the rest of us as to Lee's movements. She is not in on it, whatever "it" is.

'She wants anyone with information to contact her or the police with information that might help find him.' 

They added she wants to know Lee is safe and then can start 'asking him some serious questions'. 

Meanwhile, Lee's mum Trisha, 61, has given her first interview since his disappearance. 

The psychic medium said the family was concerned about his wellbeing after vanishing last week. 

When asked if she believed Katie's theory he had been kidnapped, she told the publication: 'I don’t know, he could have been. I’ve not seen the video.

'I don’t know the laws out there but I wouldn’t have thought they’d use cables. Wouldn’t they put handcuffs on?'

Trisha added she thought Katie was 'exploiting' the situation on social media but after her daughter spoke to the television personality, she can see how worried she is. 

A friend of Lee's mother added 'no one knows where Lee has gone' and she just wants him to be ok.  

It comes after the publication reported Lee has not been kidnapped as Katie feared and is instead squatting in a run-down villa in Dubai. 

He is said to be only talking to a few of his trusted network on a burner phone and 'frantically planning a route out of this ginormous hole he appears to have buried himself in'.