LOVE Island star Marcel Somerville has opened up about the disgusting racism his baby son suffers at the hands of trolls.
Marcel has been left stunned by the horror abuse sent to him since becoming a dad to Roman eight months ago.
Speaking on Let’s Talk About It, the 35-year-old said: “When Roman was born we were getting horrible stuff being sent.
“People said ‘oh another slave has been born’. They were putting up pictures of Roman with nooses around his neck.
“I was the first fully black person to be on Love Island.
“So I think from that and from being quite popular on the show it led to people wanting to be a bit horrible and send messages and all those kind of things.
“I’ve got 100,000 people who follow me on Instagram because they don’t like me and they just want to do racist stuff.”
Marcel’s fiancee Rebecca said she felt both “scared and angry” when cruel troll made vile comments about her child’s appearance.
She previously told The Mirror: “On Saturday I received some really disturbing direct messages from one vile troll in particular who told me my son, Roman, was ugly.
“So I blocked them and they just created a new account to continue trolling me and my son.”
The devasted new mum added: “I hate it so much. How can anyone want to attack my Roman like that? How many times am I gonna have to receive these kinds of messages before something is done about it?”
- Marcel spoke to Emily Valentine on her Instagram TV series Let’s Talk About It, which is all about race.
