Or am I thinking of Anniken Skywalker?
Bell died a few years ago.
After his second wife died (asthma), he married a young Filipino, and moved to the PI for a year or more.
I thought him staying there was weird, giving the number of cyclones and being part of the “ring of fire”.
If Bell was really concerned about “climate change”, he would have fulfilled his marriage requirements for his new wife’s citizenship, and moved back to the “high desert” tout suite, rather than hanging out there.
He did do his show on weekends from there for a while. Or tried to. The telecoms weren’t all that great at first.