The couple has two children together: Tim Reid II (born 1968) and Tori Reid (born 1971). He was knighted by Thatcher in 1991 after she left office and was ennobled by Tony Blair in 1998, despite his antipathy to the Labour leader.Bell was married three times, once briefly in his 20s, then subsequently in 1988 to Virginia Hornbrook, with whom he had two children, Daisy and Harry. ‘I can’t work very much now.
He tried to put his side of the story, but his ever-present mobile phone kept going off.‘Johann Rupert rang when I was on Newsnight to say, “Thank you for being the man I thought you were.” I showed the phone to Kirsty but she didn’t understand it,’ he says.Tim Bell being interviewed by Kirsty Wark after resigning as chief executive at Bell PottingerBell is no stranger to controversial clients, including the former Chilean dictator General Pinochet and Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian president of Belarus.He worked in advertising in the 1980s before moving into the then fledgling trade of PR and likes to speak his mind. He had a triple heart bypass operation in 2001. Thatcher apparently had to be convinced that the slogan Labour Isn’t Working would be effective since it named the Tories’ opponents in larger type than theirs.
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Bell fitted right in. I don’t have any cancer at all.’He did have colon cancer about 25 years ago, then had his gall bladder removed a couple of years later, a complication of the chemotherapy.He adds: ‘I had a triple bypass, that must have been ten or 15 years ago. Public relations executive who worked as a close adviser to Margaret Thatcher and claimed that he came up with the ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ sloganTim Bell, Lord Bell, the advertising and public relations executive, who has died aged 77, was the man who claimed to have come up with the slogan “Labour Isn’t Working” that helped In her memoirs, Thatcher claimed that Bell had better political antennae than most politicians: “He could pick up quicker than anyone else a change in the national mood. I will deviate from what is right, I know that, but at least I know what it is.’His life, he says, is best summed up by his gossipy 2014 memoir, which is entitled Right Or Wrong.‘There is a lot that is left out,’ laughs Jacky. I have had Type Two diabetes since I was 50 but I control it.’ Last year, he had a stroke.‘Maybe I’m indestructible. I used to run in the fast lane, now I can’t keep up and I don’t want to. Each blamed the other for the downfall of the firm last month.Even against that tumultuous background, it has been a momentous week.
Does he want to make peace with it?
Contempt is the nearest,’ says Bell, who was ousted from Bell Pottinger last year. Tim Bell, Margaret Thatcher’s spin doctor, dies at 77Bell Pottinger goes into administration amid South Africa scandalBell Pottinger could close by end of the year without fresh financeDeal that undid Bell Pottinger: inside story of the South Africa scandalBell Pottinger loses clients and staff in wake of South Africa scandal'Reputation laundering' is lucrative business for London PR firmsLord Bell’s Newsnight interview: the most excruciating moments - videoBell Pottinger expelled from PR trade body after South Africa racism row But I’m fine, I’m very healthy,’ he says, dismissing gossip he is unwell.
Because he is revolting.’Are there any clients he regrets taking? I have led a charmed life,’ Tim Bell muses from the sofa of his beautifully decorated Chelsea townhouse.
That marriage was dissolved in 2016 and the following year he married Jacky Phillips.PR guru devised ‘Labour isn’t working’ posters that helped Tories win 1979 electionSome of PR company’s 250 staff have already been made redundant after row over campaign to stir up racial tensionsPR company embroiled in scandal over its practices in South Africa needs to service debts of about £4mLured by fees of £100,000 a month, the PR firm ran a secret campaign to stir up racial tension on behalf of its billionaire clients
Press play to listen to this week's full episode below, or listen (and please subscribe you like the podcast) at Some links in this article may be affiliate links. In 1957 the family moved to Reno. I regret the clients I would like to have had and didn’t. Horace and Paula Bell of Great Falls, Montana welcomed Tim into this world on August 31, 1951, the youngest of eight children. Bell Pottinger became well-known for its willingness to represent rightwing figures and regimes, using the excuse that everyone deserved representation. The ageing adviser knows he is facing realities that no spin doctor – even one as skilled as himself – can magic away.He says the ageing process has been kind to him.
There’s a pause and then: ‘Only the ones I didn’t do a good job for, when it didn’t work.‘I don’t really think about that. I dream about dying. Tim Bell's fame has gone skywards in the past few weeks due to his role in a row that brought down the communications firm that bore his name – and caused the South African politics to ignite. I would have liked to have had BP at the time of the oil spill, I would have done a much better job,’ he says, feeding Lottie a ginger biscuit.It has become more difficult to be a good PR man or woman, he says, because of the outbreak of social media. ‘No. We do not write articles to promote products. Join Facebook to connect with Tim Bell and others you may know.
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