Marcel Somerville: Divorce, Dating & Love Island Legacy | Part 2
Private Parts
Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to part 2: 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 Part 2 of Private Parts for me, Liv Bentley and my glorious guest this week, Marcel. |
| 0:08.0 | Because there was a lot of, when all those, because then obviously Caroline Flagg. |
| 0:18.0 | And it's really hard because I think a lot of people blame those shows like we'll |
| 0:22.4 | blame Love Island for not having the right aftercare. Do you think that's the case? Or do you think |
| 0:26.2 | it actually is because certain people do just struggle and weren't getting the help that they needed. |
| 0:31.4 | Like would you say shows like Love Island should ever be cancelled if it was to happen again? Or do you |
| 0:35.6 | think it's just because there are certain people that get trolled in certain ways and there's just, it's the more depressed. There's stuff that the press and the people that are putting out all of these stories about you don't know what's going on behind closed doors in it. Like you could be going through the worst things in the world, but they're oblivious to it because all they've got is what they know so what they know is |
| 0:55.6 | oh like this has happened and that's happened so they're putting the stories out about that but then |
| 0:59.8 | you could be dealing with like financial things or people passing your family or those kind of |
| 1:04.8 | things and and that's already playing enough of an issue in your life so then when you're dealing |
| 1:09.5 | with that stuff and then you've got stories coming out, |
| 1:12.6 | you people selling stories about you, getting trolled on, on, on, on, on, on, because of these stories that are coming out, like, it just adds pressure to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to your life, like, everyone, like, doesn't me, you, everyone we all have things that are going on in our lives that we're not talking necessarily |
| 1:29.8 | talking to everyone about but we're dealing with like me, me, you, everyone, we all have things that are going on in our lives. |
| 1:28.0 | We're not talking necessarily talking to everyone about, but we're dealing with them and |
| 1:32.0 | we're trying to get through the situations. |
| 1:34.1 | But when you're in the public eye and people want to hear about what's going on your life |
| 1:38.8 | and people want to know the tea about what's going on in your life, sometimes the people that |
| 1:44.0 | are putting out those stories about you are oblivious to everything |
| 1:47.6 | else. |
| 1:48.6 | Do I mean? Because it's like even me, like I went through like a massive, massive breakup |
| 1:52.5 | and like find out, find out my wife was cheating on me and I've got a little boy. |
| 1:58.4 | I'm thinking about all of this different stuff and then it's just literally like the shade barra, the press, everyone's setting stories and writing stories about my life and I'm the one who's actually living through it. And I'm like, all right, cool. Like, I'm just having to not go on Instagram because everyone's talking about me. So it's like dealing with that stuff while you're trying to get through this real life stuff. Yeah. It's hard. And it's relentless. I think sometimes with the press, if they jump on one thing, it's not just one story. It's a million stories. And it's every different angle. And it's like, God, for that person to be able to like, you're going to just take a breath with it all on all of that so you're so you |
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