Marti Pellow quits Wet Wet Wet

Singer Marti Pellow has left veteran pop group Wet Wet Wet high and dry after announcing his decision to quit the band.
The Love is All Around star, who has fronted the Scottish group for over three decades, has decided it’s time to move on and focus on his acting career and solo recordings.
“I will be spending more time on my solo work – performing concerts, acting and my own songwriting…,” he tells Music Week. “I have had a great time and loved my career with Wet Wet Wet and, to me, they will always be the best band in the world.
“When I started in Wet Wet Wet I gave it 100 per cent of my heart and soul and that’s what it demands and that is also what the fans demand – and if I can’t do that because my focus is elsewhere, then this is not fair on the fans or the rest of the guys in the band.”
The group last performed together at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland earlier this month (Jul17) to mark its 30th anniversary.
Pellow’s band released eight albums and famously spent 16 weeks at the top of the U.K. charts in 1994 with a cover of The Troggs’ ballad Love is All Around.
Marti has confirmed the news on Twitter, writing: “Hi all, wanted you to know for foreseeable future I’ll be concentrating on my solo work, am excited by the future and seeing you out there.”