Pep’s drug scandal and a twist in the Katie Price kidnap saga

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1:24Evangelos Maranakis' punch up in the stands. Sounds like he punched me in the throat. Yeah, he may as well have done, Jake. A bit rusty, yeah. Bit hot, innit? It is. fucking stifling it's very hot always too hot really for a workplace definitely someone could have an accident they could that wouldn't be their fault especially if it's temperatures like this yeah if you've got no aircon yeah we've got a new sponsor we won't bang on about it now there's going to be more but yeah don't we just explain that yeah our world cup content is brought to you by Injury Lawyers for you that's why JP you're wearing a plaster cast full body aren't you for the world cup I hope it I hope it cools down for next week otherwise it might get a bit fucking hot in the plaster yeah you'll get fit when are you getting fitted over the weekend you're going to have to do it for your wedding which is unfortunate just draw on a tie yeah needs must actually for Patreon listeners this is the last time you're going to hear those injury lawyers for you ads but just wanted to explain why JP is going to be an F-plastic cast for the next month and if there are any little off off gags around that so not weird like yeah right we've got we've got a lot of gossip this is an episode laden with gossip Is it caked?

2:34I'm saying caked. But I guess we should just start. But, you know, there's been a lot of farewells this week. Yeah. Mo Salah. Bye, Mo. West Ham. Well deserved. Goodbye. Hoping that's au revoir rather than goodbye, but we'll see. Sadly, not Spurs. Obviously, they stayed up, which means Arsenal aren't doing the treble. I do love that. They started referring that to the treble. It's good. It's good. I'm kind of pleased for Spurs in the end. It would have been fucking great if they'd have gone down. Yeah, I mean, they did it by the skin of their teeth, really. Yeah, you never know. Still time. Next season.

3:17But I guess the biggest is Pep, who I guess we all knew it was coming, and then it leaked out quite weirdly, but then we got the proper farewell this weekend. You see, he had a big old party. Yeah, they organized that fucking quick. Yeah, it was a bit... I don't know. Is that where you want to spend the hottest day of the year? Yeah. It was like a conference center. Yeah. It was like the live arena. Yeah. 19 ,000 people ticketed, presumably air conned. And they had like, they had quite a fun lineup of people coming on to bid the great man farewell. So we had, had a video message from both Neil Warnock and Michael Jordan.

3:55Sort of the big two. Yeah. Surely the last time they're both in a sentence together. Pep's main advisors. who's he ringing before the Champions League final Michael Jordan or Neil Warnock the Michael Jordan one was nice because Pep was like I didn't even know he knew who I was Michael invited him for a swim which is a bit weird and then it's quite nice they had like Noel Gallagher Grealish came back really Vincent Kompany no De Bruyne I don't think I saw De Bruyne maybe he's still playing yeah is it Napoli yeah I actually don't know about the one and really the fans held up nice signs they held up gracias but they spelled it I think in the Catalan way nice all very touching but I think the most touching tribute for me came from the Daily Star who made it the top story on their website it's big news just read out the headline you've gotta see her Pep Guardiola's model daughter's hottest pics from tiny bikinis to skin tight dresses they really do some fantastic journalism don't they yeah he's really gonna miss the English press.

5:00So dignified. The Pulitzer Prize has been decided this year. So for those articles, they just, they find hot girl trawl through Insta and that is the story. Yeah, you know how like we find, we're like, what's the old scandal we can dig up on someone? They're finding bikini pics. Yeah. Gotta run a living somehow. Yeah. Who's to say which is better? Yeah. Both valid forms of art. But that's the daughter who went out with Dele Alli, I realised yeah they were in a shisha bar together weren't they yeah they were pictured on the rooftop of a shisha bar which is quite sort of noughties really yeah I would not like to be the boyfriend of someone who goes home to Pep I feel like Pep would be a right kind of a dad he's very intense yeah what are your intentions what do you mean you play football why are you not training more training harder I mean Dele Alli could probably do it about that yeah true he could probably He'd do a bit of Pep, couldn't he?

5:58Doing the seating plan at the wedding and Pep's just moving the counters around really far.

6:05But I think this means that the sexy manager era is officially over because we lost Klopp and now Pep. Yeah. And in comes Slott and Maresca. Yeah. Yeah. I saw one picture of Maresca that looked like they'd quite sort of like put it through like an AI filter to give him very strong cheekbones and stuff. So they're going for the Pep look. Yeah, he's not pep. Well, Marco Silva might be on the way out for him as well. It looks like so. Zabby Alonso is quite sexy, I think. Oh, true. Yeah, that's good. We need that. You know, he's got a bit about him. Propping up the Prem's reputation. Slim pickings otherwise.

6:43I mean, Eddie Howe's a lovely fellow, but it's more sort of cuddly. I was going to say Thomas Frank's got lovely hair, but he's not sexy, is he? Yeah. And he's out of a job. He's not bad. Deserby? Oh, yeah, but the goat eats a bit weird. He reminds me of Gary Glitter with the old goat eats. Yeah, and the spiky gelled hair and like quite... I was about to say wood smash, but that wasn't how you mentioned Gary Glitter.

7:08Who else is there? Who's coming up? Frank Lampard. Oh, yeah. Eddie Howell category. He's a cuddly, teddly bear, isn't he? Yeah, but I think he... Frank's not aging that well, I think. No. Yeah, well, like, Harry Redknapp's no fucking oil painting in there. Carrick and McKenna are sort of middle of the road. Yeah, middle of the road. six out of tens I saw I saw Pep also said at this farewell he said in the next years if you see me somewhere around the world and you're a Man City fan come and hug me quite brave I think yeah might regret that I think he said that in the heat at the moment hasn't he yeah because do you remember how much he got harassed in Manchester yeah do you remember there was that guy chasing him on his bike and cornering him where he looked genuinely terrified yeah Hey Pep let me get a picture bro!

7:59Yo! Why am I smoking off yo? Yo! Yo, hey Pep! Yo nah nah you might need to see this bro. Oh my god. Yo Pep let me get a picture D. Why you running off bro? Let me get a picture bro. Just let me get a picture! I just want a picture! At that point there he's either about to flip or he's just completely given up. My G That's it My G bro That's the way he moves the bike In between him and the guy To protect himself He looks scared I mean to be honest with you It is quite scary that Yeah You're getting used to it now Since you're Since you're appearing On a Chelsea podcast You're cheating on us JP I'll never do it again You got viral haven't you I won't do it again mate It was nice to be loved For an hour though That's all I'll say For once I'll have it anyway legendary manager no idea what he's doing next he's got some token role with City's like group yeah he sounded quite a lot like he was retiring from football from some of the like tribute messages what do you think he'll do like the Klopp thing of like brand ambassador he's he's doing that for the City group isn't he yeah I feel like there might be an international job at some point he's taken breaks from the game before so we talked last week about his sabbatical in the US.

9:23But did you know he also, as a player, spent four months out the game due to a drug ban. So, this is back in 2001. He'd just left Barcelona and he moved to Brescia in Syria. Good club. Managed two games for them and then tested positive for Nandrolone, which is a banned steroid. Isn't that the one that's in like boar testicles? Yeah. I think you're right. But actually it was weird because the same week Yap Stam also tested positive for it. And the same year, Frank De Burr, who'd been at Barca, and Edgar Davids had also been done for it. So the police were really suspicious because Pep was still working with these Barcelona doctors.

10:04Yeah, wasn't it one in particular? Yeah, it was one guy. So they basically accused him of accidentally ingesting it from a supplement. So there's actually no suggestion he was trying to dope on purpose. Oh. I regret to say. They still banned him for four months, which you know quite tough but then he got convicted and got a seven month suspended jail sentence what for taking a supplement yeah wow which is mental did you get a jail sentence for doping well he got suspended so he didn't have to do time but he got a criminal conviction and suspended jail sentence i didn't realize that was a criminal offense yeah me neither i think italy at the time was having a real panic about it because of like cycling and yeah yeah yeah yeah Anyway, so Pep's always denied that he did anything wrong.

10:49Even the accidental ingestion thing, he's like, that did not happen. And over like eight years, he's got this fucking thing hanging over him. He's got a criminal conviction. Like, it's quite hard to travel and stuff. Yeah, fucking hell. And then eventually it emerges that the urine sample had been accidentally contaminated in some bungling land in Italy. Eight years later, they admitted it. So what, his sample had been? Yeah. And loads of them. and they admitted they got it wrong they overturned it all in the end the criminal conviction the ban so look he did nothing wrong I can't imagine Pep's just giving up do you know what I mean he's not gonna let that one no he was adamant yeah anyway I have heard an absolutely insane story about Pep from someone who witnessed it directly I'd already heard rumours about this and then someone witnessed it directly and I hate to be an absolute cunt about this, but this has got to be Patreon only.

11:50It's too spicy. And I can only imagine how fucking grating it is to hear that if you're not Patreon, but there's no other way of handling this. Yeah. So yeah, we've had a few messages about this before saying, do you know about Pep?

12:08Now, speaking of insane stories, absolutely insane stories, There's been another twist in the Katie Price kidnapping saga. You'll be glad to hear. So just in case anyone missed last week's episode, just over two weeks ago, Katie Price's new husband, Lee Andrews, went missing. Missing. Missing. Missing. Inverted commas. Missing presumed scammer. So you might recall Lee Andrews. He's the guy who married Katie a few days after they met. Also claimed that he'd put in a£2 billion bid to buy Chelsea. The money's there though, right? Money's definitely there. They're just waiting to process it. It's being steam cleaned.

12:47It was being steam cleaned. Yeah. Anyway, Lee and Katie were supposed to appear on Good Morning Britain together two weeks ago. Lee didn't show up. And the last time that Katie or anybody heard from him, he told her that he was trying to cross the border at Muscat in Oman. So was your right for Muscat?

13:14katie katie then released a youtube video where she explained that the last time she'd seen she'd spoken to lee he was on video call with her in the back of a van hands were bound with cable ties and he had a hood over his head which you know sounds pretty scary and it would be if it happened to you know anybody else apart from lee andrews but before you start feeling too sympathetic for him. Lee is, he's the archetype of a con man really, isn't he? Yeah. He's like, you know, um, you know, the Simpsons, the, the guy who, who really charmed Springfield and convinced them to get a monorail. Lee Andrews is basically that guy for barrel chested, heavily Botox, Dubai adjacent influencers.

14:01Um, the monorail is the monorail is his flying car company. Yeah. Which does not exist. Much like the monorail. So yeah, Lee, he's, he's scammed his several ex-girlfriends out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. He told them that he was multimillionaire. He was mates with Elon Musk, had contracts with the Royal family and Donald Trump, some US government contracts. Didn't he say he was in the Labour Party or in the government? He said he was, yeah, he was working as an advisor for the Labour Party. It was all complete bollocks. One of his girlfriends, he actually told that he was seriously ill with a heart condition and that he was planning to leave her all of his money.

14:42And he was basically treating her like a queen. He paid for this flat for her, played for a car, this really expensive engagement ring. She later found out, or she suspects, that the money that he was paying for this for was stolen from the girlfriend before her. Nothing like a good old pyramid scheme. Oh yeah, it really is. he's allegedly barred from leaving dubai after forging his ex's signature to take out a 200 grand mortgage in her name yeah it's all it's it's straight out of the the tindless windler playbook really uh but despite that katie she didn't believe any of that and fed fell head head over heels for him married him a few months ago uh i actually missed this at the time but shortly after they met, Katie tried to charge her followers$2.99 to find out the results of a pregnancy test.

15:36Follow me on Patreon. Who would charge people three quid for a bit of information they wouldn't share? What grubby operation. That is low, isn't it? It really is. Sorry, what's it? Maybe we should try that. Yeah. Find out if JP's... Find out if Zach's pregnant. we're getting jp's chlamydia test back next week exclusive to patreon with like a pixelated thumbnail

16:09um so what and so if you pay she if you pay she'd reveal whether she was pregnant or not nice she was she was not pregnant right yeah sorry to spoil the money making scheme best three quid I've spent I was better than the 20 quid I spent on Juan Bernabe's OnlyFans. Have you counted that now? I have I'm churn did you tell him that you'd quit? Did you say goodbye? I quietly churned. That's sad I thought there was a bit of a relationship building. It was goodbye one. We're still in touch I just don't want to see his cock every day we'll be in touch when we're back on tour we'll get him on for the next live show Juan Bernabe So anyway, when Lee disappeared two weeks ago, obviously the immediate thought was he's doing it again.

16:58He's run off from another girlfriend. He's stealing her money. And I've got to say that my opinion on that has not changed. And if my suspicions are true, then Lee is, he's not exactly doing the best job of going incognito. So up until last week, his Instagram account only followed one other account, Katie Price, his wife. He's got one woman. He's a one woman man. But then supposedly since his disappearance, he's been completely offline. Nobody's, he's not receiving messages from anybody. Nobody had heard from him until his Instagram account started following another account by the name of Biker Babe.

17:41who's a u.s navy veteran what do you reckon he's on the prowl well biker babe uh is known to have previously used an online matchmaking service for millionaires which sounds like catnip for lee andrews it's a match he's thinking he's thinking fucking out of it the bullseye yeah i think when he found out about that website he was just rubbing his hands yeah I quite like the idea of Lee holed up somewhere in Dubai just scrolling through this this millionaire matchmaking service and he settled on Biker Babe yep he did well they they followed each other on Instagram she has now blocked him surely with the amount of heat that Lee is getting at the minute you don't do that yeah so fucking inept yeah like get another Instagram account or something is there possibly could it be a message to Katie?

18:39Oh, what? To try and get help? He's sending a coded message. Oh, she's a biker babe. His kidnappers were like, okay, you're allowed to follow one woman. That's what we'll allow you. Biker babe it is. Kind of like sending one of his fingers to get a ransom. Yeah. Or yeah, maybe Katie was not forthcoming with the ransom money and he had to put the screws on. He had to go to work. Yeah. But yeah, I don't know if, Lee would really be able to offer Biker Babe the sort of lifestyle that she's after, presumably on this millionaire matchmaking service. So The Sun did an article last week where they revealed that Lee was, in their words, squatting in a slightly run-down villa using a burner phone to reach out to a handful of trusted contacts.

19:28Biker Babe being one of them. Biker Babe. Katie. Elon Musk. Donald Trump. Prince Andrew. his dad actually claims that he's been arrested in either Dubai or Iman. I can't, can't get my head around it. Katie's denied that. Uh, there are also some reports that Interpol, uh, after him over, I mean, take your, there's quite a few. These multiple fraud charges that he's, he's, if he's been arrested, would they, cause like the British embassy are involved. Would they not tell them? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. To be honest, this is all too shady, isn't it? There's something fucking going on, eh?

20:07Yeah. Well, there's something up. But obviously, I mean, you've got to feel sorry for Katie, ultimately, in this. This is her husband. I wouldn't say she seemed unduly worried about the whole thing. She's been very active on her social media account. So this is one of her posts from the other day. As you can imagine, the past few days have been a lot. We're still looking for answers. But I have to say a massive thank you to at Supreme CBD UK for helping me with my anxiety. This is one big fucking pyramid scheme. Confusing pyramid scheme. I would love if this entire thing turned out to be an elaborate advert for Supreme CBD.

20:50And credit to them if it is, to be honest. Like I would have no... Have you been cable tied and thrown in a moldy Dubai jail cell? What you need is CBD gummies. Going for a highly stressful situation. really takes the edge off yeah calls from Interpol

21:12yeah it's I mean fair play to them if that if that is the case that is a mental reaction possibility yeah I think if my other half had been kidnapped you hadn't had for two weeks last time you saw them they were cable tied with a hood over their head I probably wouldn't be flogging CBD gummies no you'd be flogging injury lawyers I'd be flogging injury lawyers for you yeah the perfect i mean they'd be i mean the person they'd have been free from the kidnappers already because if you do know it's for you would have would have sorted that right out yeah i've got a feeling he's probably called them a lot before though ain't he it's what they call a time waster fucking how he's ringing again

21:53yeah um yeah if your husband has been kidnapped and you've heard nothing you're not doing brand deals like plugs are you? this is what I mean she's desperate and I feel like they're in it together yeah I think this is the big question really is Katie in on it yeah because she's plastered over every paper at the minute which is what she loves yeah that's her currency that's my theory it's all publicity stunt just for publicity yeah she denies that she probably would I don't know I don't know we'll see my other theory is that he's this Interpol thing is true Interpol are after him and he's he's basically on the run from the police but didn't he say he was being taken to like a black spot which is like black site yeah black site it's like Guantanamo it's like extra judiciary yeah there's no phone signal yeah weirdly wifi to follow biker bait yeah got a dongle she is she is US forces she's US Navy I'm with the US Navy seals she's busting me out She's flown in a dongle for him in a flying car.

23:04Yeah. But I think that the, the whole sort of kidnapping thing has his kidnapping story is basically his latest smoke screen to not admit that he is not allowed to leave Dubai because of these charges. So a few days ago, his ex-girlfriend came out and said that when it was, when they were together, she kept on being like why don't you come to the uk like you just just come and he was always finding these excuses and then eventually he messaged her and was like yeah i'm here i'm in the uk i don't want you to what you're on about i can't travel to the uk i'm in the uk and he sent this video of him he said he was ice skating with his nieces um and sent her this video this was this was last year 2025 everyone in the video is wearing face masks and somebody pointed out in the comments that is dubai mall uh and he then posted another one where watch it now he says that he's in scarborough uh which looks to me very much like he's just put a woolly hat on in his car i don't know if you know where skegness is it's leon skegness or in oscar it's out seaside i came with my jockey mate just to uh ride the horses oh man I get the heat on I'm in my mum's car so I gave the Range Rover to Stuart what does he say he gave her the Range Rover yeah so he says I'm cold you know when he goes oh someone turned the heat on it's the sniffs for me he goes skickness in winter the woolly hat he's in an underground car park in Dubai it's fucking great he's clearly narcissistic the way he talks Which is just so fucking weird.

24:48Catch me if you can without any of the glamour.

24:55But we'll keep you posted on that story. Yeah. There'll be more twists, I'm sure. I feel like he's going to keep rolling on that one. A week is a long time in Lee Andrews. Every week, there's so many twists. Yeah. All right. Weird little interlude here, but some big news actually broke just after we finished recording the pod. Some good news. Lee Andrews has been found he's alive Katie Bryce Katie Bryce has released a video where she says she's just spoken to Lee where where the hell is he not in person on on the phone so Lee this call was set up by Lee's dad and apparently Lee is currently in prison in Dubai in the Al-Aweer the same prison that Quincy promised was at actually so he said that he's he's been arrested there the Dubai authorities suspected they were being a spy.

25:48So that is... Did he finish it with, this message will self-destruct in 20 seconds? May as well have done, yeah. Katie, I think you've just broken the official secrets act. Yeah, yeah. This is the British government's biggest asset, Lee Andrews. Double O... 57. Double O zero. Double O six seven. Double O six seven.

26:15so he's a spy yeah which does which does explain the flying car because Q sort of sorted about with the flying car yeah but he's he's expecting to be let out oh really presumably the MI6 have been in touch to secure his release that's quite a that's quite a light treatment for a spy isn't it yeah yeah apparently so yeah that is that is the up that's the latest update from Katie. So he's found. He's been found. He's a spy. He's a spy. He's getting out of jail. He's getting out of jail. Is he even in jail? Is he just calling from some like rented villa in the outskirts of Dubai? Definitely. Yeah.

26:59But yeah. Well there you go. Breaking news. Breaking news from the upshot. You heard it here first. Alright. Back to the main pod. Yeah. Now our old pal Evangelos Maranakis the Nottingham Forest owner. He's had a bit of a tough season, hasn't he? I think he's been through four Forest managers. He's on number four. It's like Lee Andrews and wives. Olympiacos missed out on winning the league. Got it. And the straight-off Hormuz has been closed for a lot of the year. It's been tough. That has really damaged him, hasn't it? A lot going on for him at a minute. Poor old Vange. He's probably hoping to unwind at the EuroLeague basketball final, which was Olympiacos versus Real Madrid.

27:45Glacios. It just doesn't feel right, a basketball final. Why are we not part of that basketball thing? Like every other country, their football team seemed to be like, I saw they beat Fenerbahce in the semis as well. Famously, basketball don't go down well, eh? Yeah, because your father-in-law tried to get it going. Yeah, and failed miserably. Well, I don't think he failed miserably, sorry. Pathetic. Yeah, because it's the British Basketball League, which a couple of years ago, they put out a statement to ask all of the clubs and everyone to stop referring to BBL.

28:24Brazilian butt lift, if you're not familiar. Yeah, I guess people are into the NBA or whatever. It's a shame. I'd like to be part of this. And I'd especially like to be part of it after what happened at the final because Maranakis... Ended up getting in a fight in the stands with the nephew of the Greek prime minister. He smacked him.

28:48Everywhere he goes, something's happening. Yeah, and his shirt gets ripped. You know, his iconic big white t-shirt. So Evangelos, there's like a barrier between them, you know, like down the staircase, like a banister. And Evangelos, they're arguing, and then Evangelos leans over and slaps the guy. And the bloke responds by just whacking him. And he rips his shirt. weren't a bad little jab to be honest yeah yeah were they do they have some kind of existing beef yes or was this just yes i mean i'll get into it then basically this guy the nephew of the so there's another picture here he's got a black eye can you see oh yeah so basically the beef is that the the nephew um who's called grigoris dimitradis he was he's the nephew of the prime minister and he was his right-hand man until the scandal broke maybe last year or the year before which they call greece's watergate basically it emerged that um several very high profile figures were running a wiretapping scandal where they they used this software called predator to like track people good name for it don't call don't call yourself a predator just do so it a bit light and fluffy do you know what i mean not fucking predator they'll never spot what this program is would you like to install identity theft predator on your computer yeah doesn't sound like the best wiretapping strategy so Maranakis has got the amp well basically they used it on 87 individuals and apparently Maranakis is one of the people they spied on and to add to that Maranakis he owns a lot of like newspapers and media and his his media outlets have been piling the pressure on this guy who had to resign so they've got a beef right you know you think it might be settled in the courts yeah no if you've got beef with someone you've got to give him a quick jab yeah Yeah, punch up.