Celebrity accountant Anthony Bell in David Warner’s corner

Candice and David Warner in South Africa, before the ball-tampering scandal erupted. Pic: Instagram

Controversy is never far away from the client base of Sydney’s celebrity accountant Anthony Bell.

On Bell’s roster, and joining the bean counter in the limelight in recent times, have been Nine anchorman Karl Stefanovic (of Uber infamy), Sydney real estate agent John McGrath (famously one of the nation’s biggest punters) and former Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke (a man-child perhaps even more obsessed with celebrity than his accountant).

It should come as little surprise that disgraced former Australian vice-captain “Dirty” David Warner also pops up as a client of Bell’s Bell Partners.

Or that The Sandman’s ironwoman wife Candice is on the roster of Roxy Jacenko’s Ministry of Talent.

You know what they say about glitter-covered, bronzer-drenched, Instagrammed birds of a feather.

With the assistance of the spectacularly-separated Bell, Warner, 31, and his ironwoman wife Candice, 33, have established a multimillion-dollar portfolio of investments spanning residential real estate, shares and race horses, as revealed this week in The Australian.

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And what of Steve Smith?

The 28-year-old former Aussie captain has also put considerable effort into the preparation of his finances for life after cricket.

Smith has a Sydney residential property portfolio worth at least $10 million, comprising three homes in Balmain, an apartment in Sans Souci and another in Marrickville.

And there’s his residence in Coogee, not far from Warner’s place in neighbouring Maroubra — useful if Smith needs any sandpapering of his doors or fittings.

All six of the devastated former captain’s properties are mortgaged to Brian Hartzer’s Westpac.

After the swift cessation of his $1.5 million contract with James Sutherland’s Cricket Australia, the end of his $2.4 million IPL contract with the Rajasthan Royals and the imperilled status of his remaining sponsorships, the distraught Smith might need to pop into one of Hartzer’s branches to rejig his suite of mortgages.

The next 12 months look awful for the fallen batting prodigy. But he’ll be back.