Love Island star jailed in Dubai after clip emerged of her snorting white substance in super-strict country
LOVE Island star Kaz Crossley has been jailed in Dubai on suspicion of drug offences.
The fashion and beauty influencer was detained at Abu Dhabi airport in transit for a flight to Thailand.
It is understood her name was flagged up as United Arab Emirates authorities are still probing a two-year-old video of her snorting a suspicious white substance at a party.
The footage was shot during lockdown as influencers flocked to Dubai to escape restrictions in the UK and was revealed by The Sun on Sunday.
Cops refused to let a terrified Kaz, 28, phone her family after her arrest on Monday. She could face a minimum of three months in jail and a £5,000 fine if found guilty of taking or possessing drugs.
A source said: “She was looking forward to getting back to Thailand where she has been doing voluntary work and all of a sudden she is languishing in a Dubai jail.
“Everyone knows how strict they are about drugs over there. She must be terrified.
“She had only stopped off in Abu Dhabi to catch a connecting flight but her name has obviously raised a red flag.
“She was allowed to send just one email and wasn’t even allowed to make a phone call.
“She messaged one particular friend whose email she could remember and asked her to inform her family that she was OK but had been arrested for drugs offences. The arrest wasn’t because of anything she had on her.
“As far as we know it is all down to that video.”
In the clip, said to have been filmed in Dubai in November 2020 as the UK was in lockdown, Kaz is seen in an orange dress bending over a side table where chunky lines of powder appear to be laid out.
A shocked witness said: “Kaz was running with quite a hard partying crowd. She certainly isn’t as squeaky clean as she makes out online.”
Kaz, who came third on Love Island in 2018 and is set to feature on Channel 5’s upcoming show The Challenge, spent much of last year in Thailand doing voluntary work.
Her last Instagram post was on Sunday in Dublin.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: “We are in contact with the local authorities following the arrest of a British national in the United Arab Emirates.”