Bill Murray addresses Kelis dating rumors: 'Really raised my cred' | Fox News
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Bill Murray finally addresses Kelis dating rumors: 'Really raised my cred'
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The US Sun reported in 2023 that the 'Ghostbusters' star, 74, and the 'Milkshake' singer, 45, had been 'getting close for a while'
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Published March 6, 2025 11:04am EST

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 is keeping it real.

The "Groundhog Day" star, 74, recently set the record straight over  two years ago that he was dating singer Kelis, who is nearly 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  while talking about how much he likes hip-hop.

"Not all of us believed that," co-host Sway Calloway said while Murray smiled and nodded.





Bill Murray recently confirmed that rumors he dated singer Kelis were not true. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images | Dave Benett/Contributor)

"That was false humility again," Murray joked of mentioning Kelis.

He said he first discovered Kelis in rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s 1999 song "Got Your Money," in 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."
> 
> — Bill Murray



Bill Murray, right, with Kelis and one of the members of the band Children of Zeus in 2023. (Children of Zeus/Instagram)

He said that he spoke with her recently and found out she had just bought land in Kenya.

"She’s in Africa," he said. "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 asked.

In 2023, the U.S. Sun reported that Murray and Kelis had been "getting close for a while" while they were seen together at some of her performances.



Bill Murray is seen at a premiere in 2023. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

The rumors spread a year after Kelis’ second husband, Mike Mora, died of cancer in 2022. Murray divorced his second wife, costume designer Jennifer Butler, in 2008.



 in a June 2023 Instagram post of her in a bikini, saying, "lol no babe, I wouldn’t bother at all" after a commenter asked her: "Ma’am would you care to address these Bill Murray allegations?!? Cuz damn! What he doing with all that?!?"



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