Love Island’s Gabby Allen and Marcel Somerville: when and why did they split?

The Love Island 2017 stars will reunite on All Stars 2025

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by Eden-Olivia Lord |
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Now that the Love Island bosses have finally announced the All Stars 2025 cast we've been reminiscing over the Islanders first experiences.

Remember during Love Island 2019 when Amy Hart wanted a cuddle but all Curtis Pritchard wanted to do was focus on getting everyone coffee in the morning?

Or during Love Island 2020 when Nas Majeed returned from Casa Amor with Eva Zapico leaving Demi Jones heartbroken?

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nas recoupled with eva after casa amor ©ITV

OR Luca Bish being completely and utterly obsessed with Gemma Owen throughout series eight?

All those moments were 10/10 Love Island TV but the main thing we've been chatting about in heat Towers is the fact that Gabby Allen and Marcel Somerville are going to come face to face eight years after Love Island 2017.

Despite being totally loved up, the nation was shocked when Gabby dumped Marcel after 10 months. So we've had a trip down memory lane to see what went wrong.

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marcel and gabby are returning for all stars ©ITV

Now, if you cast your mind back to series three you'll probably remember that Gabby swept Marcel off his feet during Casa Amor, they came fourth on the show and went on to date for 10 months - which was longer than winners Kem Cetinay and Amber Davies and runners up Chris Hughes and Olivia Attwood.

(Side note: Camilla Thurlow and Jamie Jewitt are still loved up, married and even have two kids. So cute.)

Anyway, Marcel and Gabby's split was especially shocking because he cheated on her while they were on holiday TOGETHER.

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gabby and marcel met on love island 2017 ©Imago

At the time a source told The Sun, 'They had a row one night so Gabby went back to their hotel room to sleep.

'Marcel started chatting to another woman at the bar where they kissed in full view of other guests.'

Following the news, Gabby deleted all traces of Marcel from her Instagram and thanked fans for their support.

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marcel and gabby split after 10 months ©Imago

Meanwhile, Marcel's reps confirmed the news saying, 'Sadly the rumours are true, Gabby and Marcel have split up. Marcel can't really defend his actions as he knows he did wrong and will regret it forever.

'Marcel is upset that he broke the heart of someone he loves and someone that he shared so many special moments with, but with all the good times there are difficult times, and sadly Marcel and Gabby had been in a bad place at this stage.

'Gabby was a special part of Marcel's life, and he hopes one day she can find it in herself to forgive him. He knows what he did was wrong and is extremely sad about how he has hurt Gabby.'

Guess we'll find out if she's forgiven him in the villa...

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gabby and marcel will reunite on all stars ©Imago

Anyway, their co-star Olivia Attwood then spoke to heat about Marcel's actions and said, 'It just makes you realise there are no good ones left, doesn't it?

'He was the dad figure giving out advice - there's no excuse for it. It's just shit, really. I don't get it, he could have just broken up with her.'

Marcel was then reportedly dropped from his Celebs Go Dating role - where he was meant give fellow celebs advice, he then claimed that Gabby cheated on him with Dan Osborne (something they've both denied) and almost a year later, Marcel threw shade at his ex-girlfriend.

We can already tell that Gabby and Marcel's reunion will top Callum Jones and Molly Smith and even Jake Cornish and Liberty Poole's reunion.

We reckon it'll be messy AF, so get your popcorn ready huns.

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Eden-Olivia is the deputy editor of heatworld and she’s worked in showbiz since 2016. She started watching Love Island in 2017 because of her job. However Montana Brown remaining unphased by absolutely everything kept her entertained and she’s watched every series since.

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