Invoice Murray is preserving it actual.
The “Groundhog Day” star, 74, lately set the document straight over rumors that popped up two years in the past that he was relationship singer Kelis, who is sort of 30 his junior.
“I was fascinated, I met this girl named Kelis, who – I got great press that I was dating her, which really raised my cred,” the “Ghostbusters” actor joked on SiriusXM’s “Sway in the Morning” whereas speaking about how a lot he likes hip hop.
“Not all of us believed that,” co-host Sway Calloway mentioned whereas Murray smiled and nodded.
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Invoice Murray lately confirmed that rumors he dated singer Kelis weren’t true. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Pictures | Dave Benett/Contributor)
“That was false humility again,” Murray joked of mentioning Kelis.
He mentioned he first found Kelis in rapper Ol’ Soiled Bastard’s 1999 music “Got Your Money,” by which she was a featured singer.
“I was fascinated, I met this girl named Kelis, who – I got great press that I was dating her, which really raised my cred.”
“It’s so crazy,” he mentioned of the music video, including that he puzzled who the “girl with the red hair” was, “and it was Kelis.”
Murray mentioned he determined he needed to fulfill her, “and she turned out to be spectacular.”
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Invoice Murray, proper, with Kelis and one of many members of the band Youngsters of Zeus in 2023. (Youngsters Of Zeus/Instagram)
He mentioned that he spoke along with her lately and discovered she had simply purchased land in Kenya.
“She’s in Africa,” he mentioned. “She’s not afraid of the dark. She just goes out there and goes, ‘Well, I think I’ll just go to Africa and start a farm.’”
“So you weren’t dating?” Calloway requested.
“No,” Murray confirmed.
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Kelis performing in London in 2023. (Joseph Okpako/WireImage)
“Sway, long story short,” one in all his co-hosts joked.
Murray laughed, “But, you know, one of us could be on the rebound any second. She might need a plowman down there.”
In 2023, the U.S. Solar reported that Murray and Kelis had been “getting close for a while” whereas they have been seen collectively at a few of her performances.
Invoice Murray at a premiere in 2023. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
The rumors unfold a yr after Kelis’ second husband, Mike Mora, died of most cancers in 2022. Murray divorced his second spouse, costume designer Jennifer Butler, in 2008.
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Kelis responded in a June 2023 Instagram publish of her in a bikini, saying, “lol no babe, I wouldn’t bother at all” after a commenter requested her: “Ma’am would you care to address these Bill Murray allegations?!? Cuz damn! What he doing with all that?!?”
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She additionally wrote, “everyones dumb and will believe everything but the best part is we are both blessed, rich and happy. So who’s really laughing.”
