Ex-wife Rebecca Vieira’s reconciliation with Love Island star and singer Marcel Somerville has been made public.
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.
The musician from the Blazin’ Squad was “utterly broken” when he learned that she had been sending racy messages to another man. Now, it appears that Marcel has found peace and has spent time focusing on himself.
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 what she’s feeling, but I’m making an effort to resolve issues as quickly and as peacefully as possible.
We are co-parenting, and Roman, who plays the central role in our relationship for the rest of our lives, is what we need to make sure we get right. With her moving on and doing her thing, I’m glad she’s found someone who wants to be with her.
Roman, I’m just more focused on myself and on just getting through life. There is still a way to go before I can fully recover from that journey and feel like I want to be in that same situation once more. 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. “
Marcel later shared a cryptic post, but he doesn’t intend to cover up his ex-wife, despite Rebecca providing insight into her new relationship. When everyone’s been contacting me, I’ve been like ‘ I’ve seen it, it’s not triggering me, ‘ “he commented. He continued, “I’ve made a decision to choose myself and choose self-respect over sticking with something that wasn’t right for me.”
“Rebecca’s moving on is not an uproar. Good luck to her, I really hope it works out for them. I want to make sure they are firmly established if this is the person who will be around my son, so I’m hoping this is the case and she is content. That’s the case, I hope.
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 most recent single, Did For Love, a house track, respectfully addresses the breakdown of his marriage. He said, “I’m so excited,” while reflecting on the track that will be out this Friday. I’ve lived decades in music, this is the realest and most honest pieces of work I’ve ever made.
The song is about me reflecting on love, the choices I’ve made for someone I love, and the choices I’ve made in terms of loving myself. He claimed that he had been working on this project for two years after his marriage broke down, and that he had been working on it for the past year. While working on the music, he poured his soul into the tracks, with some having” hurt “in them.
He explained, “With this song, there’s no hurt; I feel like I’ve healed myself since the situation;” he is reflecting on the wise choices he’s made in his life and the choice 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.
Marcel admits to putting on a persona with his rapping while growing up in the Blazin’ Squad, but in recent years he has been living his true self through his music. He said, “This is the most difficult situation I’ve ever had to go through in my life,” before stating that although he had previously experienced difficult circumstances, his heartache had not been equal.
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 rob you a lot. I believe that when I wrote the song, I put down the lyrics and the beat because I felt like I was a release because everyone in my life is aware of what is happening.
“I’ve tried to handle the situation with decorum and respect and not say anything about Rebecca because I don’t think it’s on me to do that,” said one person who knows my life. When you listen to the lyrics of the song, I’m not talking about Rebecca; I’m talking about me going 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. He and his bandmates were touring the country and performing in concert every night at the age of 16 just one year later. The band’s six top ten hits included the recognizable 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? ‘ I learned from living through the upheaval and dealing with the downfall that life can go up when things don’t go down.
“My life has been spent on numerous occasions. “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. Just before Love Island knocked on his door, he later discovered that he had already been fired from the position.
But working in publishing gave Marcel a different perspective on the music industry. He found himself looking into music production and production after settling on Love Island. I was managing artists, so it was a good idea to bring all of the information with me.
” 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 involved in a lot of development, development production, and management tasks. I was imparting the knowledge I had learned.
“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. You learn even more by actually doing the legwork and discovering new ways to earn money from music. What has he learned most about himself after almost 25 years of being in the public eye?
“I’m resilient, I can adapt to the harder situations”, he said. He continued, “You’ll always come out no matter how difficult the situation is as long as you handle yourself in the right way, you handle things the right way, and you handle things properly.”
” 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. It’s about reinventing yourself and living true to yourself in these challenging industries, they’re difficult to navigate and maintain. At the touch of a dime, life changes.
Did For Love will be available to stream on all major platforms this Friday.
