Bill Murray is just one of those celebrities. He’s one of those (white) guys who gets away with it. He gets away with treating costars like garbage and people still hire him. He gets away with harassing Geena Davis and verbally abusing Lucy Liu and people just selectively ignore their stories. He gets away with getting fired for putting his hands on unconsenting women and he still gets asked to do another Ghostbusters movie. So, Bill Murray is in London, filming a new Ghostbusters movie. While in London, he went to a music festival, which is where he ran into Kelis. They were photographed together backstage at her show, and now the Sun claims that they’re dating.
Hollywood superstar Bill Murray has struck up an unlikely romance with Milkshake singer Kelis — who is almost 30 years his junior. The Ghostbusters actor, 72, watched the mum of three, 43, perform from the side of the stage in London last weekend – having also been spotted at her other recent shows.
Sources say the pair were also together at the same hotel, and have been “getting close for a while” after first meeting in their native US. They have reportedly bonded since Kelis’s second husband died in March last year, while Bill’s estranged wife passed away in 2021.
Father-of-six Bill was pictured during Kelis’s set at the Mighty Hoopla festival in Brockwell Park, South London. The pair also posed for a cosy snap backstage.
A friend said: “They’ve met up in the States before which got people in the industry talking, and now are meeting up in London while they’re both here. They’ve clearly hit it off. They were both seen at the same hotel, and he’s been to watch her perform several times before he went to Mighty Hoopla. But they’ve also both shared relatively recent bereavements and have that common bond between them. Whatever it is that has brought them together, and however unlikely it seems, they are both single and are having fun despite the fairly big age gap.”
Bill is currently filming a sequel to the classic Ghostbusters franchise in London, which sees him reprise his role as Peter Venkman alongside many of the original cast from the 1984 blockbuster. Off screen, his second wife Jennifer Butler accused him of domestic abuse and sex, marijuana and alcohol addictions — as well as infidelity — during their marriage. The costume designer filed for divorce in 2008, but the pair are understood to have remained in touch before her death in 2021.
Yeah, I doubt this is real. I think they met and they were probably nice to each other and had a conversation, but this feels more like the Sun’s editorial staff just making up a story to go along with the photos. In any case, I HOPE Kelis isn’t dating Bill Murray. She’s had so much drama and tragedy in her life and she’s had bad luck with men. She doesn’t need Bill Murray’s crap.
Milkshake singer Kelis, 43, and Bill Murray, 72, are dating https://t.co/uKkOLnGymC
— Daily Mail Celebrity (@DailyMailCeleb) June 8, 2023
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- Kelis performing live at Mighty Hoopla Festival, Brockwell Park, London on 03 June 2023 Kelis (Kelis Rogers Mora) is an American singer-songwriter and certified chef. Kelis achieved moderate international success with her ‘99 debut album, Kaleidoscope,Image: 781351850, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Dafydd Owen / Avalon
- Kelis performing live at Mighty Hoopla Festival, Brockwell Park, London on 03 June 2023 Kelis (Kelis Rogers Mora) is an American singer-songwriter and certified chef. Kelis achieved moderate international success with her ‘99 debut album, Kaleidoscope,Image: 781352083, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Dafydd Owen / Avalon
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Why would a smart, talented, successful, beautiful, young woman become romantically involved with Bill Murray?
I do not see this being a romance.
Just be super careful and take your own phone to be able to call for help!!! And,Takes
Video camera so that you can record what the two of you are doing!!!!
These are two people I would never in a million years see as belonging together. Oh Kelis, not Bill Murray. Run.
That was my reaction too. As in, if you were asked to come up the most long shot celebrity couple, you still wouldn’t even think of these two together in a million years.
That said, I can see Bill Murray being attracted to a beautiful younger woman like Kelis. I can’t see Kelis being attracted to Bill Murray at all, though.
Let’s hope this is click bait. Bill Murray is very gross. 🤢
Horrible. Murray is an abuser. I hope Kelis stays safe with him somehow.
I don’t remember much about her backstory. Who was her husband and how did he die?
He died of stomach cancer and worked as a photographer I think.
Thanks @zapp 🙂
Bill Murray is not a good bet as a bf.
He has a terrible history of behavior with women he gets involved with, decades worth.
She has had enough heartbreak.
Not him, honey. Not him.
The photo doesn’t give “we are a couple” vibes. In the full photo there are three people, she is posing with an arm around each of them in a “meeting my fans” friendly kind of way.
OK but has this been confirmed? I don’t even understand this pairing at all. Her first two husbands were so NOT Bill Murray. I just don’t get it. I guess she’s trying something new? Are old White dudes the IT thing right now or something?
No, Kelis, run. For me, Bill Murray is in the same category as Johnny Depp, widely beloved for no reason I can understand and deeply icky.
Bill Murray in hotels with younger women? This reads like a Lost in Translation adaptation moved from Japan to England.
Bill Murray 🤮🤮🤮
Kelis is famously divorced from the rapper Nas and has a son with him. He was abusive with her during the marriage. Then her second husband died very young (at 38?) and she has two children with him. I hope against hope that Murray has changed his ways or that Kelis gets clued in quickly and leaves him. Poor woman.
I don’t think that they are together as a couple. I do think that they are friends, and that they have mutual friends and acquaintances, and maybe he has grandkids that attend one of the same schools as her kids. This sounds like getting close to a neighbor, but it’s the Hollywood version where you see some friends out of town likely more than when you are home. And showing up to her job burnishes his bad reputation.
Pretty sure sun gets contacted by pr team so it might be true. See swift, sel Gomez who soft launch their relationships through them. I wouldn’t be too surprised. 60/70 yr old people have more sex than most young people
Hey, if it works, good luck to them.