Love Island's Marcel Somerville breaks silence on ex moving on after cryptic post

Daily Mirror

2 days ago

EXCLUSIVE: Love Island star and singer Marcel Somerville has spoken out after it came to light that his ex-wife Rebecca Vieira has found love again
Marcel Somerville has revealed his thoughts after his ex-wife made her new relationship public. The singer and former Love Island star, 39, and Rebecca Vieira announced their split in March 2024, two years after the couple married one another.
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It came after the Blazin' Squad musician discovered that she had been sending racy messages to another man, leaving him "utterly broken". Now, it appears that Marcel has found peace and has spent time focusing on himself.
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While many would still hold a grudge, the musician who is returning with his latest single, Did For Love, has spoken about how he's happy that Rebecca has found someone who makes her happy. It comes after Liam Neeson's son reacts to his dad's romance with Pamela Anderson.
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"I found out that Rebecca's got a new partner, which is good," he told the Mirror. He went on to add: "I'm glad that she's found someone new." Marcel continued: "My biggest priority is Roman," his son, adding: "He is my heart outside of my chest. He's literally the love of my life.
"I love that boy with all my heart, so everything that I'm trying to do, I'm just trying to do things with the level of decorum and level of respect so that he's not affected by what's going on too much. I'm not going to speak for Rebecca, or how Rebecca is feeling, but I'm trying to do things as amicably and as peacefully as possible.
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"We're co-parenting, and that's the most important thing we need to make sure we get right because Roman, he's the central thing, he's going to make us have a relationship for the rest of our lives. With her moving on and doing her thing, I'm glad she's found someone who wants to be with her.
"I'm just more focused on me, Roman, and just healing and progressing through life. It's been a long journey, and I feel there's still a way to go in regards to me being fully back to myself and feeling like I want to be in that situation again. But in regards to Roman, I'm out here trying to be the best dad and best man I can be to make sure he's growing up happy and thriving."
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But while Rebecca has given fans an insight into her new relationship, Marcel later shared a cryptic post, but he has no intentions of shading his ex-wife. "When everyone's been contacting me, I've been like 'I've seen it, it's not triggering me,'" he commented. He went on to add: "I've made a decision to choose myself and choose self-respect over staying in something that wasn't right for me.
"I can't be upset that Rebecca's moved on. Good luck to her, I really hope it works out for them. If this is the person who's going to be around my son, I want to make sure they're on a solid foundation, so I'm hoping this is the real thing and she is happy. I hope that's the case."
Nowadays, the musician is happier in himself and is living a relaxed and free life, with "respect and as much compassion" as he can. His latest single, Did For Love, a house track, focuses on the breakdown of his marriage in a respectful manner. Reflecting on the track which is out this Friday, he said: "I'm so excited. I've lived decades in music, this is the realest and most honest pieces of work I've ever made.
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"It's been a very therapeutic situation – the song is about me reflecting on love and the choices that I've made for someone I love and the choices I've made in regards to loving myself." He explained that over the last year, following the breakdown of his marriage, he had been working on this project for two years when "everything went down". While working on the music, he poured his soul into the tracks, with some having "hurt" in them.
"With this song, there's no hurt, I feel like I've healed myself since the situation," he explained, and is reflecting on the positive choices he's made regarding his life and the decision to "walk away from someone who wasn't good" for him. "I had to make the choice to walk away, I needed to love myself again," Marcel said.
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Growing up in the Blazin' Squad, Marcel admits he put on a persona with his rapping, but in recent years, he has been living his authentic self with his music. "This is the hardest situation I've ever had to go through in my life," he said, before adding that he'd previously experienced hard situations, but they hadn't compared to his heartbreak.
He said: "The experience of being in something that you thought was going to last forever and doing everything you could do to try and make it last forever, then realising that it's not, it has a mental toll on you. It can take a lot out of you. I think making the song, I was putting down the lyrics and the beat, I feel like it's a release in a way, I've been so real, everyone knows my life, it's hard for someone not to know what's going on.
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"The number of people who know my life, I've tried to handle the situation with decorum and respect and not say anything about Rebecca because I don't feel it's on me to do that. I feel like it's on me to heal myself, and I think the honesty that I've put into this song, when you listen to the lyrics of it, I'm not talking about Rebecca, I'm talking about me and coming through the situation and reflecting on who I was in it."
Aged just 15, Marcel found himself swapping the school hall for the bright lights of fame with the Blazin' Squad. Just one year later, aged 16, he found himself and his bandmates topping the charts and touring the country, performing to thousands in arenas every night. They had six top ten hits, including the iconic Crossroads.
"Dealing with that and living this wave of the craziest and best life," he said, adding: "When the record label doesn't take up the third option on the album, you're thinking 'What do I do next?' Dealing with the fame and then dealing with the comedown gave me the outlook on life that things can go up, but when they go down, it's what you do next.
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"It's been numerous occasions in my life." Just two years after he found fame, Blazin' Squad came to an end, with Marcel finding himself working on the other side of music, in a publishing company. But he later found himself being made redundant from the role, just before Love Island came knocking at his door.
But working in publishing gave Marcel a different perspective on the music industry. After Love Island, he found himself exploring music production and producing music. It was good to take all of the information with me, I was managing artists and that.
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"So I was able to teach people about it and bring it to the front, there's a lot of artists who don't know that they're meant to sign up for PPL and PRS to get the royalties. I was doing a lot of development, the developmental production and management stuff. I was taking the information I learned and passing it on.
"I always knew about that stuff, but when you're in the industry, you've obviously got publishers and people that deal with that stuff. Actually doing the legwork, you learn even more and learn how you can make money in different ways from music." But after almost 25 years of being in the public eye, what has he learned most about himself?
"I'm resilient, I can adapt to the harder situations," he said. He went on to add: "No matter how hard the situation is, as long as you handle yourself in the right way, you deal with things in the right way, you'll always come through.
"It's when things don't go in the right way, people tend to be like 'I'm going to take a step back', so handling yourself with decorum and giving yourself freedom to try new things and just be resilient in life. These industries are hard; they're hard to navigate and maintain, but it's about reinventing yourself and being true to yourself. Life changes at the drop of a dime."