In the pecking order of eastern suburbs socialites, Kelly Landry was the queen bee.
A household-name TV star in her own right thanks to hosting gigs on Getaway, Wipeout and Wheel of Fortune, she was once married to accountant‑to‑the‑stars Anthony Bell – the numbers guru who has managed the finances of a Who’s Who of sport and celebrity, including Karl Stefanovic and David Warner.
Months after being set up on a blind date by mutual friend Natalie Gruzlewski – who, like Landry, was a presenter on Getaway – the pair married in February 2011 and settled into a charmed life as a Sydney power couple.
They even had their own name, ‘Kelly and Belly’. Two daughters followed, now aged 14 and 11. But the fairytale romance of the model and the yachtsman didn’t last.
The couple’s marriage fell apart amid a messy and public dispute that played out in the courts in 2017. Allegations were levelled by Landry. Bell vigorously defended himself. In the end, a magistrate dismissed the proceedings, citing a lack of evidence.
The Mail makes no suggestion of wrongdoing and acknowledges the pair now amicably co-parent their children since their divorce. In a sign of their healed rift, in May 2021, Bell shared a thoughtful tribute to his ex-wife on Mother’s Day.
In the pecking order of eastern suburbs socialites, Kelly Landry was the queen bee during her marriage to accountant‑to‑the‑stars Anthony Bell (pictured together in October 2010)
The fairytale romance of the model and the yachtsman didn’t last. The couple’s marriage fell apart amid a messy and public dispute that played out in the courts in 2017
We caught up with Landry last week after learning she had left behind her glamorous life as a jet-setting Sydney ‘It’ girl to settle into a much more peaceful existence near Noosa, where she runs a wellness space in Doonan called Samdhana Shala.
The property isn’t far from her former matrimonial home with Bell, who has since remarried Annika Martyn, the ex-wife of retired cricketer Damien Martyn.
Landry, 46, and Bell, 52, had previously moved to Noosa in 2017 to try to rekindle their marriage in the aftermath of their high-profile court matter.
After they finally called it quits and divorced in 2021, Landry went on to buy a stunning 4.3-acre home in Doonan and began her new life as a yoga teacher.
‘I bought the property at the beginning of a separation [from Bell],’ she tells Daily Mail.
‘And I’ve been slowly developing and renovating the space so that it is essentially a yoga space. But it’s probably a lot more than just that.
‘The idea is to create a community around wellness and healing. Like a wellness community of conscious, connected people who all have the same goals in terms of living a more conscious life.’
Kelly used to run a ‘small studio’ out of her home in Sydney during her marriage to Bell, where she hosted yoga classes for ‘private clients’.
Landry was a household-name TV star in her own right before marrying Bell, thanks to hosting gigs on Getaway, Wipeout and Wheel of Fortune
Landry is seen here during her days as a Channel Nine TV personality
After their separation, she quietly disconnected from her old life of Sydney glamour and now feels at home on her farm, which serves as a base for her wellness classes.
‘I think a lot of people are willing to pay bucketloads of money for fashion and all sorts of things, but the last thing they want to spend money on is their health,’ she says.
‘So I wanted to create something that was a space where it really supported other facilitators, not just me. So we all had the common interest in just helping people and being of service to people.’
‘We’re running circles. We run breathwork. We run yoga. I’m just in the process of finalising some dates for free, monthly meditation here,’ she adds.
‘I just really want to use my position to be able to create some positive in the world, and to be able to bring some options and opportunity to people that might not necessarily have it, so they can have some choice to create some change in their life.’
Kelly founded her wellness space, Samdhana Shala, in October with a friend, Ruth Iriondo, and has since welcomed several practitioners to her home to practise and teach their crafts.
Where once Kelly’s life was filled with travel, champagne and premieres, these days she prefers tending to her garden, raising her daughters and looking after goats.
‘It ranges between being a mum and using the space, or I’m still doing some online learning at the moment as well,’ she says of her day-to-day life.
Landry, 46, left behind her life as a jet-setting Sydney ‘It’ girl to settle into a much more peaceful existence near Noosa, where she runs a wellness space in Doonan
A cursory glance at Kelly’s Instagram shows the former media personality has indeed stepped into a new chapter of her life, far from the lights and sounds of Sydney’s east
Photos of a recent gathering at her wellness space show Landry with a group of women as they draw on a large canvas with chalk, then cover themselves in clay and crawl across the work
‘The idea is to create a community around wellness and healing. Like a wellness community of conscious, connected people who all have the same goals,’ Kelly says of her wellness space
‘But I’m also on acreage as well, so there’s always something to do. You cross one thing off the list, and there’s a few more to do, but that’s certainly no kind of complaint because I really do love it.
‘I’ve invested in creating a veggie garden and an orchard, and we’ve just added some baby Nigerian dwarf goats to the property. I want to start incorporating those into some animal therapy.’
She adds: ‘We’re at a time where a lot of conversations I have with people are about them [feeling] not necessarily satisfied and happy, but yet at the same time still chasing, chasing, chasing.
‘So, I’m just offering an option. And you know, it’s not necessarily for everybody… It feels immensely satisfying for me.
‘Other people might have completely different ideas of what they think is their utopia of life. But for me, this is exactly it.’
When discussing her formerly ritzy lifestyle, Kelly says she has no regrets about her years in Sydney, but admits she did struggle to connect with certain aspects of it.
‘The thing I probably found the most challenging living in Sydney, and particularly in the eastern suburbs, is that I didn’t grow up there, so I just didn’t have the same values,’ she says, appearing to choose her words carefully.
‘It was challenging because most of the friends that I became close with there, who I’m still friends with now, also didn’t grow up in Sydney.
‘It’s not a criticism by any means, but I do feel like… everyone is a product of their environment, and I think in that environment, it doesn’t allow people to have really honest connections with each other.’
She adds that her high-profile relationship and subsequent split was an added pressure, but now accepts it as an inevitable part of living in the public eye.
‘If you choose to be in the public eye, then you’ve got to take everything that comes with it,’ she reasons.
‘I think there’s a lot of people who make those choices to live in the public eye, and they want the notoriety and the fame, but they don’t want the responsibility that comes with notoriety and fame.’
However, she concedes that some people simply ‘relish in everyone’s demise’.
‘It’s just an unfortunate thing. I think, really strongly in Australian culture, that we just have a tall poppy syndrome,’ she adds.
‘I do find there are a lot of people who really relish in gossip about other people’s misfortune and they really love seeing people fall.’
But Kelly admits it wasn’t all doom and gloom living in Sydney, as she says ‘there were moments in there that were incredibly awesome.
‘There’s absolutely no remorse or regret or anything for any of that. I feel so grateful that I’ve been able to experience such a broad spectrum of all different things in life.
‘And it makes me feel so grateful and appreciative of where I’ve landed as well.
‘I certainly don’t hold any judgement or criticism to anyone who’s choosing anything different and who does value those types of things, because everyone is so different.
‘I respect other people’s choices and what they choose to value. This is just where I’ve landed.’
Landry admits she sometimes misses the days of getting dressed up to go out or jetting off around the world. These days, she limits her travel to once or twice a year, preferring quieter vacations with her daughters when they are on school holidays.
A cursory glance at Kelly’s Instagram shows the former media personality has indeed stepped into a new chapter of her life, far from the lights and sounds of Sydney’s east.
Photos of a recent gathering at her wellness space show Landry with a group of women as they draw on a large canvas with chalk, then cover themselves in clay and crawl across the work.
In her online bio, Landry describes herself as a mother and yoga and retreat facilitator, specialising in sound healing and breathwork.
Most of her posts now highlight yoga, wellness retreats and healthy cooking.
As for the state of her relationship with Bell today, Landry speaks civilly of her ex-husband, confirming the pair have settled into co-parenting their daughters.
‘I think we’re both incredibly different in the way that we co-parent,’ she says.
‘Initially it was a little bit challenging, but now it’s kind of exciting, because [our daughters] get to taste different things.
‘I think they’re in Sydney on a boat at the moment, so they’re living the high life and all of that kind of stuff, and they’ll come back to some grounding, but it’s good.
‘It’s great that they have the opportunity to experience all of that so they can make an informed decision about what they do and don’t want to do.
‘I’m not raising them to be mini versions of me. I want them to be the best version they choose to be as a person.
Landry regularly posts photos with the two daughters she shares with Anthony Bell
‘It’d be great if they could really tune in and be able to find their own path that really suits them, rather than what anyone else wants for them.’
Landry last made headlines in 2022 when she moved on to a new relationship with a man described in the press as an engineer and father-of-two.
The pair were reportedly introduced by mutual friends in Noosa, but sources indicated at the time they had yet to move in together.
In our interview, Landry confirmed she had re-partnered after her split from Bell and was still with the engineer, though she wanted to keep the rest of the details private.
‘My romantic life feels good. I feel settled in my romantic life.’
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