Katie Price's family have admitted they are hugely concerned about her marriage to Lee Andrews, with son Junior branding it 'stupid'. The couple left fans stunned when they tied the knot in Dubai at the beginning of the year, just days after meeting. However, in a new documentary on the glamour model's life in the headlines, her loved ones confessed they were also reeling by how fast things were moving between the pair.
Family Reactions to the Wedding
In the footage, the 48-year-old spoke of her separation from ex-husband Peter Andre, before touching on what she's looking for romantically. Sharing what she needs from her ideal man, she teased: 'Someone who can treat me, someone who doesn't have to be in and out my pockets all the time, someone supportive, someone who understands my job, someone who wants to be private, someone who doesn't want to be famous, just know me for me, not about everything else.' Seconds later, a message flashed up reading 'two weeks later', before she could be seen marrying the businessman.
Junior - who she shares with Peter - was scathing in his reaction to the nuptials, telling the camera: 'This is the most silliest, stupidest thing, marrying a guy she doesn't even know. This is my mum, this is what she does.' Katie's beloved mum Amy explained that she begged the Celebrity Big Brother winner for answers, while her stepdad, Paul Price, didn't mince his words, sharing that he was livid over the move.
Paul Price's Anger
'I said what's she going to Dubai for? 'To see a bloke',' he said of the family conversations around the nuptials. 'I said what's the catch? And then we find out she's getting married. I said 'you're off your head'. And then the geezer is in the paper pretending to be a millionaire.' When asked whether he was angry with his stepdaughter, he added: '100 percent.'
Post-Wedding Drama
Katie and Lee have barely been out of the headlines following their wedding in January, with intense speculation over why the self-proclaimed millionaire had not been to the UK to visit his new family. Scrutiny ramped up when he was due to join the I'm A Celeb star on Good Morning Britain in May, but failed to turn up. In a bizarre twist, the mum-of-five raised the alarm, claiming that he was missing and had been 'kidnapped', before it emerged that he was behind bars in Al-Awir prison, over a civil case.
Katie and her sister, Sophie, unpacked his infamous GMB no-show during a candid chat on their podcast, where the star's sibling made her feelings on her brother-in-law very clear. 'We're not going to argue about this, we're not, it's not worth it,' she fumed at the time. 'However, I just feel like he's massively mugging you off and he's done it publicly on live TV.'
Katie's Response
Katie conceded that their romance had turned into a 'soap opera', adding: 'This is why I want relationships a bit more private. But at the end of the day it's between me and him, it's not really anyone else. 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. And if he does make it to England it will shut all the rumours up because at the moment everyone thinks he's on a flight ban, this and that. I said it does look weird that you haven't come to England and I've been going to Dubai, he has to come here now.'
