💔 Katie Price says dating app Raya blocked her over wrong email

Katie Price says she cannot get into Raya, the invite-only celebrity dating app. The claim was first reported on Nov 6 at 5:23 AM ET, according to the desk's log, and carried by The Mirror, The Sun and the Daily Star. Per The Mirror, she made it on her podcast, The Katie Price Show, talking to her sister Sophie.

Who says what

The Mirror reports that Price, 48, said: “I’ve been blocked from Raya because I put the wrong email in, like, a couple of years ago. I don’t even know how to unblock it, so if I did want to go and date that is the site I’d want to go on.” The Daily Star reports the same remarks and says she pleaded with the company for help.

"I’ve never been on a dating site in my life but it would just be interesting to see who would come up for me."

Katie Price on The Katie Price Show, as quoted by The Mirror

Then the plot thickens, in the way these plots do. The Sun reports that Lee Andrews, her estranged husband, posted on Instagram Stories urging followers to DM him, after what he called his “soon to be ex wife” joining dating apps and “following random boys”. The Sun says Price answered on her own Instagram that she is not on dating apps at all, writing: “I’m not interested in meeting anyone else engaging with anyone messaging anyone or going on any dating apps or dates.” The reports do not date the two posts against the podcast, so the order is unclear. A podcast wish and a flat denial sit in the same news cycle. Mr Scandal makes no ruling.

The Mirror reports that Price married Andrews, 43, in Dubai in January, days after meeting him. The Mirror and The Sun both say she ended it after reports he had £2.22 in his bank account. The Mirror says he had previously claimed millions in cryptocurrency, and The Sun says he was recently released from Dubai's Al Awir prison after four months. Neither outlet quotes Andrews on those points.

The response

Raya has not commented in the reports read; no public response from the company was found. Price's own statements are the ones quoted above. The Sun's report includes Andrews's Instagram post but no further comment from him.

What happens next

None of the three reports states a next step. Whether Raya will restore her access, or whether she wants it restored, is not on record, given her separate Instagram statement.

Backstory: the money record

The money record is the part that is documented in court. BBC News reported that Price was declared bankrupt at the High Court on Nov 26, 2019, after failing to keep to a repayment plan known as an IVA. She was declared bankrupt a second time in March 2024 over an unpaid HMRC bill of £761,994.05, BBC News reported, and the judge said “the papers are in order”.

As of Nov 7, 5:12 AM ET, the Raya claim rests on Price's own podcast remarks as quoted by the Mirror and Daily Star, with The Sun adding Andrews's post and her Instagram reply. Raya has not been quoted. What happens to her access, and whether the two accounts square, is not yet known.