A limited series of Australian television dramas, Apple Cider Vinegar which centres around Belle Gibson, real name Annabelle Natalia Gibson premiered on Netflix in 2025
A number of real people on the show have had their names changed by Netflix, but one person’s identity hasn’t changed, her partner Clive Rothwell.
In the series the character of Clive is a big part of Belle’s life, played by Ashley Zukerman. Clive and Belle quickly begin a romantic relationship and he helps her move out of her flat with Nathan and the two end up living together and Clive supports her while she makes her app and furthers her Instagram following and works towards her recipe book. He acts as a supportive step-dad to her young son, and they try for a second baby but in the third episode Belle miscarries
Who is Belle Gibson of Apple Cider Vinegar, bio, real name, age, parents, husband, son, nationality, true story, Instagram and where is she now
In reality, the majority of the life of Clive Rothwell has been spent in solitude. As a result, hardly much is known about him.
He was described as an IT consultant in the Netflix series, but when Gibson appeared in court in 2019, she stated that she was unaware of his occupation.
Gibson stated in court that Rothwell paid for a large portion of her living expenses, so when asked about his salary, she replied she was unsure, adding, “That’s not my business.”
Another source of contention has been the state of Rothwell and Gibson’s relationship. During her 2019 court appearance, Gibson disclosed that she and her son shared a residence with Rothwell, but she maintained that they were not romantically involved.
Annabelle Natalie Gibson aka Belle Gibson is a convicted scammer and supporter of pseudoscience.
Tasmania’s Launceston is where age 33 Gibson was born in Australia on October 8, 1991. She moved out of her Brisbane family home at the age of twelve to live with a classmate, then with a family acquaintance, according to interviews conducted prior to her exposure. Gibson went to Manly, Queensland’s Wynnum State High School.
She grew up in various parts of southeastern Australia with her mother, Natalie Dal-Bello, before becoming estranged from her family.
‘I grew up in a very dysfunctional home. I never knew my dad, and grew up with my mum, who had multiple sclerosis, and my brother, who was autistic,’ she wrote in her book, The Whole Pantry: 100 Recipes for Eating Deliciously, Getting Back to Basics, and Living a Well-Nourished Life.
Check out this interview with the real Belle Gibson on 60 Minutes Australia from a few years ago 👀
She’s something alright… #applecidervinegar #KaitlynDever #Netflix pic.twitter.com/rDjTrJJckX
— 𝙲𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚊 𝙱𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚝 (@CinemaBurst) February 6, 2025
She actively participated in the online community and was part of the skating culture there. In July 2009, Gibson left Perth for Melbourne, and a year later, at the age of 18, she became a mother. At the age of 21, Gibson released The Whole Pantry, a smartphone app, in August 2013.
Belle Gibson career
Belle Gibson aka Annabelle Natalie Gibson is the creator of the Whole Pantry app for smartphones and the cookbook that came with it. Gibson made fraudulent claims throughout her career as a wellness expert that she had been diagnosed with several cancers, including brain cancer, and that she was successfully treating them with natural medicine, alternative medicine, nutrition, and exercise.
In 2012, Gibson launched the Instagram account @healing_belle, describing herself in her bio as a “game changer with brain cancer + a food obsession” and within a year, she amassed 200,000 followers on the rising social media app.
The Whole Pantry debuted with 50 gluten-free, plant-based vegan recipes, a shopping list function, and a conversion tool and in its first month, the app topped the App Store charts, and by the end of 2013, Apple had named it the year’s “Best Food and Drink” app.
She stated that she had given large percentages of her earnings and business profits to a variety of charitable organizations. In February 2015, Gibson was challenged by her close friend Chanelle McAuliffe, who suspected her of fabricating her cancer claims and running a fraud. McAuliffe begged Gibson to come clean, but Gibson refused.
McAuliffe reported Gibson to the police, a lawyer, and an investigative journalist because he was worried about the harm Gibson was doing to cancer patients, but they refused to investigate.
Like everyone else watching Apple Cider Vinegar, I googled "where is Belle Gibson now?"
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— Jackie (@jackie_jade_) February 6, 2025
Gibson and Inkerman Road Nominees Pty Ltd (formerly Belle Gibson Pty Ltd) was sued by Consumer Affairs Victoria on May 6, 2016, for “false claims by Ms. Gibson and her company concerning her diagnosis with terminal brain cancer, her rejection of conventional cancer treatments in favour of natural remedies, and the donation of proceeds to various charities.”
The Federal Court of Australia upheld the majority of those allegations on March 15, 2017, finding that “Ms. Gibson had no reasonable basis to believe she had cancer.”
In order to recover Gibson’s outstanding penalties, which totalled to more than half a million dollars due to interest and charges, the Sheriff’s Office of Victoria executed a search warrant at Gibson’s Northcote residence on January 22, 2020, and seized goods. A second warrant to “try to recoup her unpaid fines” was issued for her residence on May 21, 2021.
This is a true-ish story based on a lie.
Kaitlyn Dever stars as Belle Gibson in Apple Cider Vinegar. Now playing. pic.twitter.com/tsflPgOuzT
— Netflix (@netflix) February 6, 2025
Although Belle Gibson largely stayed out of the public eye after 2015, in a 2020 interview, she claimed to have been “adopted” by the Oromo community, an Ethiopian ethnic group in Melbourne but Dr. Tarekegn Chimdi, president of the Australian Oromo Community Association in Victoria said in August 2021 that Gibson was not involved with them.
Consumer Affairs Victoria sued Gibson in the Federal Court of Australia in 2016 for engaging in misleading and deceptive conduct and unconscionable conduct in breach of Australian Consumer Law (Vic) and in March 2017, she was ordered to pay penalties totaling $410,000.
As of early 2020, Gibson had yet to pay the fine, which had accumulated to over half a million Australian dollars with interest and additional fees and authorities raided Gibson’s home in Melbourne in January 2020 to seize items to sell to recoup her unpaid fine.
Belle Gibson has a son but she is currently believed to be single and unmarried. While she is currently said to be living in Melbourne, she stays out of the public eye now.