Singer Kelis has damaged her silence over rumors that she’s relationship Bill Murray, telling social media customers that she and the actor are “blessed, rich and happy.”
Last week, it was reported by The Sun that “Milkshake” hitmaker Kelis, 43, and Lost in Translation star Murray, 72, have been “getting close for a while.” Murray, who has been capturing a Ghostbusters sequel within the U.Okay., was photographed with Kelis at one in all her reveals in London this month. They reportedly met within the U.S.
While neither star had initially publicly commented because the romance hypothesis took social media by storm, the singer shared a candid assertion on Instagram over the weekend.
Kelis, whose full title is Kelis Rogers, shared a carousel of images that confirmed her sporting a bikini as she soaked up the sunshine throughout a break in Greece.
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Captioning the submit, which included footage of Kelis leaping from a yacht into the ocean, the California-based musician wrote: “I’m a beach bum.”
Despite the esthetic attraction of the submit, a wave of Kelis’ followers seemed to be way more taken with listening to what she needed to say in regards to the Murray rumors.
“Ma’am would you care to address these Bill Murray allegations?!?” mentioned one fan within the feedback part. “Cuz damn! What he doing with all that?!?”
“Lol no babe,” Kelis wrote in response. “I wouldn’t bother at all.”
Amid the wave of feedback of an identical nature, one other Instagram person weighed in by accusing the star of using a wave of publicity off the again of Murray’s fame.
“Bill got u out by here riding his wave lol,” mentioned the social media person, who moreover opined that the “media is destroying y’all.”
“Lol yeah maybe for now everyone’s dumb and will believe anything,” Kelis replied. “But the best part is we are both blessed, rich and happy. So who’s really laughing […] now that’s funny.”
Newsweek has contacted representatives of Kelis and Murray through e mail for remark.
The rumors surrounding Kelis’ love life come a couple of yr after the demise of her husband, Mike Mora. The photographer was 37 when he died on March 14 after being identified with stage IV abdomen most cancers.
Mora had documented his most cancers journey in a sequence of heart-wrenching Instagram posts, as he revealed that he had been identified with the illness in 2020. At the time, Kelis had just lately given beginning to their now 2-year-old daughter, Galilee. They are even have son Shepherd, 7. Kelis shares son Knight, 13, together with her ex-husband Nas.
Oscar winner Murray’s second ex-wife, Jennifer Butler, died unexpectedly on the age of 54 in January 2021. Murray has six kids between Butler, from whom he was divorced in 2008, and his first spouse, Margaret Kelly.