Marcel Somerville has revealed his baby son has been targeted by racist trolls.
The Love Island star and his fiancée Rebecca Vieira welcomed their baby boy Roman in January.
Speaking on the Let’s Talk About It podcast, the new father 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.”
The TV personality continued: “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.”
Rebecca previously spoke to The Mirror about the horrible messages she had received about her son, saying: “I’m both scared and angry at the same time that people think it’s OK to be racist in this day and age.”
“Most people have been really supportive and have sent lovely messages to me and Marcel but there have been a few horrible ones. On Saturday I received some really disturbing direct messages from one vile troll in particular who told me my son, Roman, was ugly.”
“I blocked them and they just created a new account to continue trolling me and my son. 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?” she asked.
