Educated at Colston's Collegiate School, Bristol, he is an England international with five caps and currently divides his time between working with the RFU and as a mortgage broker for Chartwell Funding.
[2] He attended Colston's Collegiate School with Chris Taylor the Gloucestershire cricketer with whom he shares a great friendship.
Bell first played rugby for Bath Minis[2] and later for Bristol U17's and colts whilst attending Colston's Collegiate school.
[7] Bell played in the final of the 2007–08 European Challenge Cup, as Bath defeated the Worcester Warriors.
[15] Due to regulations, Bell was not allowed to join the Welsh summer tour of Argentina,[16] later that year the IRB confirmed he could not represent Wales.