Bel Mooney
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Beryl Ann "Bel" Mooney (born 8 October 1946) is an English journalist and broadcaster. She currently writes a column for the Daily Mail.
From 1979–80 she was a columnist on the Daily Mirror.[1] She has also been a regular columnist for The Times (2005–07), The Sunday Times (1982–83) and The Listener (1984–86). From 1970 to 1979 she was a freelance journalist. She was instrumental in the foundation of the Stillbirth Society, later to be known as Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society.[2] As well as her fiction (see below) Mooney has written many other books, including 'Bel Mooney's Somerset' (1989) and a memoir about love, loss, recovery – and dogs: 'Small Dogs Can Save Your Life' (2010). She is the author of the Kitty and Friends series of stories for young girls,[3]
Mooney met Jonathan Dimbleby while they were both working on the student newspaper Pi. Dimbleby became her first husband; they married in February 1968 in Kensington[4] after knowing each other for four months.
Mooney was married to Dimbleby for thirty-five years. The couple separated in 2004 after Jonathan Dimbleby's affair with opera singer Susan Chilcott; they divorced in 2006. Mooney and Dimbleby have two adult children, Kitty (born 1980), a freelance journalist and charity consultant and Daniel (born 1974), a television producer/director.[5] On 8 September 2007, Mooney married Robin Allison-Smith, formerly a freelance photographer, now a businessman, with whom she lives on the outskirts of Bath, Somerset.[6]
Notes[]
- ^ Dixon, Thomas M. (2015). Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears. Oxford University Press. pp. 268–269. ISBN 9780199676057.
- ^ Thomas, Laura (2019). "Brightness falls: Seance on a Wet Afternoon". The Lancet Psychiatry. 6 (8): 648. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30259-7.
- ^ White, Hilary (2005). "What makes a good book for older children?". Practical Professional Child Care. 2 (6). doi:10.12968/ppcc.2005.2.6.39153.
- ^ Trowbridge Town Council (2008). Trowbridge : County Town Official Guide. Local Authority Publishing Ltd.
- ^ About Us – The Split Screen Ice Cream Company
- ^ Borland, Sophie. " Bel Mooney to wed man 16 years her junior" The Daily Telegraph, 5 September 2007. Retrieved 31 March 2008.
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