Marcel Somerville: Divorce, Dating & Love Island Legacy | Part 1
Private Parts
Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Love Island legend & Blazing Squad OG Marcel Somerville is on the sofa with Liv to chat about everything from his teenage heart throb years in the noughties Blazin Squad to a Love Island icon! Marcel opens up about his journey with fame, his mental health and his fight for more diversity on mainstream TV, which took him all the way to the House Of Commons.
PLUS! Marcel finally addresses the cheating scandal that blew up online and inevitably destroyed his marriage, how he rebuilt himself and being a very proud dad to his son today!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Private Parts with me, Live Bentley. |
| 0:12.8 | This is the podcast where nothing is off limit. |
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| 0:26.2 | today i have a very special guest joining me on the sofa it's the love island legend |
| 0:31.2 | plus one of the original members of blazing squad it's marcel somerville can i just say, and this is not to be insulting, what the fuck is Blazing Squad? |
| 0:41.2 | And I know I should know this, but I don't. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm going to tell you now, Blazing Squad, we were the innovators of pop hip-hop in the UK. |
| 0:50.1 | The OGs. |
| 0:50.8 | The OGs. |
| 0:51.8 | So obviously we grew up listening to like SoulS for the crew doing garage music. |
| 0:55.4 | And then we crossed over from garage into like the mainstream back in 2003. |
| 1:02.4 | Right. |
| 1:02.9 | Our first single went to number one, had seven top 10 singles. |
| 1:06.1 | Wait, how old were you when this was happening? |
| 1:08.5 | In 2003, I was like nine. Every every day like like so every week it was like |
| 1:13.9 | it was um but i think i was like nine smtv it was SMTV it was like SMTV with like one week and then it'd be like |
| 1:20.9 | the saturday show the next week and we were just basically back and four because we were so popular with the kids |
| 1:25.0 | that's amazing yeah it's crazy wait wait how old are you then sorry i was 16 when we released Crossroads, but we got Simon was 15 years old. And then how long did that actually go on for? So as a 10, we went from 15 to 22 and then 22, everyone kind of like started disbanding and going and doing their different things. Kenzie went and done Big Brother. 22 members? No, there was 10 members. No, no. There was like 20 something members of the Sol-Soddoo crew and we wanted to be like them. So we was like 10, 10's enough. Yeah, yeah. So and we all went school together. So there was 10 of us in the playground was like, let's go make a song, went to the studio, made our first song standard flow. And then the producers were like, are we going to send it off to a few labels. We're like, all right, cool. Initially, we made it just because we used to go and DJ at the girls in our class and the girls in our school's birthday parties. |
| 2:17.8 | Yeah. So like 14 year old birthday parties, 15 year old birthday parties, we'd be there like DJ and MCN and all that kind of stuff. And then... |
| 2:25.3 | That's actually fucking jokes. |
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