Rochelle Humes recalls the ‘creepy’ way Marvin first approached her

Rochelle Humes has recalled the ‘creepy’ way her husband Marvin asked her out, saying he would be ‘cancelled’ if he did it now. 

The couple, who have been married for 14 years and share three children, Alaia Mai, 12, Valentina, nine, and Blake, five, crossed paths in 2010 when their respective bands were performing in Ireland. 

She was asked about the encounter when she appeared on the Great Company podcast, with host Jamie Laing saying: ‘So apparently he took your phone, put his number in it, called himself, and that’s how you started connecting?’ 

‘How weird is that?’ Rochelle exclaimed, with Jamie agreeing: ‘Very weird and creepy’, as Rochelle continued: ‘Now you’d be cancelled!’ 

Explaining how it came about, Rochelle said that The Saturdays and JLS had both performed at a concert in Dublin, and when they attended the afterparty in a club, Marvin had requested the bands’ tables be next to each other.  

When Rochelle left her bag on the table to nip to the loo, Marvin saw his chance and got her phone out to get her number. 

‘Who isn’t raised to know that you never go through a woman’s handbag?’ Rochelle laughed. ‘His dad is horrified at this story, you can imagine. He’s like, “I trained him better than this.”‘ 

Rochelle had no clue this had happened until later that evening when they were back at the hotel and Marvin called her. 

‘When I think about this, it does give me the ick so I’m going to tell this quickly,’ Rochelle confessed.

‘He called my phone and then there’s a number calling me that I don’t know. I answer it. It’s like, “Hi, it’s Marvin.” Toe-curling.

‘He’ll be so angry that he’s not here to to defend himself because he thinks he didn’t ever put that voice on, but I promise you he did…

‘And then he he offered that I go to his room, And I was like “it’s alright”. And then he was like “no nothing like that. We can just we can just chill.”

Anyway, I didn’t take him up on his offer. 

‘However, it was then like the odd message was exchanged. He was saying, “We’ve got to go for dinner. I’d love to take you out.” After a while then I did.

‘I was then trying to find reasons not to like him and my friends were like “you like him and he seems really sweet.” But I think I was trying to stop myself.’ 

Rochelle revealed that for their first date, the pair went to a McDonald’s drive-thru to avoid being spotted by fans. 

She recalled: I had a Filet-O-Fish, no cheese, and an apple pie. And we were driving around Wembley because we wanted to chat in his fancy car. 

‘We were just going around town it was quite sweet though. He felt really normal and I really honest and he was just so transparent about how he felt about me and it wasn’t an ick.

‘That’s what I was saying to my sister who’s recently started dating and she’s really into this guy and he’s lovely. 

And she was saying, “It’s so weird that if this would have been somebody else saying all of this stuff, it would make me feel sick.” 

But it’s obviously right. When I think about it, he was saying, “We’re getting married.” And I I was like, “Okay.” It didn’t freak me out.’

As it turns out Marvin was right, and the pair ended up tying the knot in 2012. 

Elsewhere in the podcast, Rochelle revealed she has household help to ‘hold down the fort’ six days a week while she juggles work and parenting.

The former Saturdays singer, 37, said she has employed a woman to help around the house and with school pick ups Monday to Saturday.

‘I don’t want to sit on podcasts like this and act like I don’t have help – we have help!’ she shared.

‘I have a woman who is with me Monday to Saturday morning and she is incredible and helps to hold the fort down.

‘When Marvin is at his radio show and I am somewhere like here, she is there until I get back.’

‘People say have you got a nanny and we don’t’, she added before explaining the woman is more of a household helper.

While she wasn’t afraid of admitting in the interview to having help around the house, Rochelle said she was most scared of telling her mother, Roz Wiseman.

She recalled: ‘I was so nervous to tell my mum I was getting help. The first response from her was, “no one’s looking after my grandkids but me”.

‘Also she was like, “oh so you are too good to do your washing up now are you”. I was like, “no I just need some help”.

‘I was so scared to tell her because she really wasn’t happy, she was outraged. She was like, “I don’t know who you two think you are”.’