Bill Murray, 72, is reportedly dating Kelis, 43: they’re ‘meeting up in London’

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.

[From The Sun]

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.

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  1. HeyKay says:

    Why would a smart, talented, successful, beautiful, young woman become romantically involved with Bill Murray?
    I do not see this being a romance.

    • Elizabeth says:

      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!!!!

  2. ML says:

    These are two people I would never in a million years see as belonging together. Oh Kelis, not Bill Murray. Run.

    • It Really Is You, Not Me I’m says:

      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.

  3. Brassy Rebel says:

    Let’s hope this is click bait. Bill Murray is very gross. 🤢

  4. girl_ninja says:

    Horrible. Murray is an abuser. I hope Kelis stays safe with him somehow.

  5. Minnieder says:

    I don’t remember much about her backstory. Who was her husband and how did he die?

  6. HeyKay says:

    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.

  7. Chaine says:

    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.

  8. ME says:

    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?

  9. Nx2 says:

    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.

  10. Shawna says:

    Bill Murray in hotels with younger women? This reads like a Lost in Translation adaptation moved from Japan to England.

  11. BillyPilgrim says:

    Bill Murray 🤮🤮🤮

  12. j.ferber says:

    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.

    • Christina says:

      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.

  13. Hmmm says:

    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

  14. Brian says:

    Hey, if it works, good luck to them.