New wife? How did he meet her?
Remarriage
By the end of January, Bell began hinting that he was making a significant life decision, but that he would keep it a secret for at least one year, asking listeners to remind him in 2007 to let them in on it. By March, he was saying that he would soon take a “huge risk” and “do something rash.” On April 15, 2006, he ended the mystery and, to the mild surprise of listeners, revealed that, after several weeks of mourning, he had recently gone to the Philippines and married Airyn Ruiz,[15] whose name is pronounced like the name “Irene,” but Art likes to pronounce her name as “Arin.” This is because during their Internet dating Art imprinted the spelling of her name with that pronunciation. Airyn Ruiz Bell is a recent college graduate. Ruiz — given Bell’s private e-mail address by an amateur radio friend—had contacted Bell to offer condolences shortly after Ramona’s death. After “dating” via Internet video conferencing for “hundreds of hours,” the two married one week after Bell arrived in the Philippines to actually meet her in person . Bell also paid for his friend—who was courting Airyn’s sister—to accompany him to the Philippines and marry her. The two couples wed in a double marriage ceremony on April 11, 2006.
On October 7, 2006, Bell announced on Coast to Coast that Ruiz was pregnant with the couple’s first child. Art told listeners that the couple’s child was indeed a girl as many listeners suspected. He noted that they had been hoping for a girl and had announced only a girl’s name for their unborn child in hopes of receiving a girl.
Art and Airyn’s baby girl, Asia Rayne Bell, was born on May 30, 2007.