![]() Maybe you met him as slick avenging officer Axel Foley in the Beverly Hills Cop films, an enterprising SAHD in Daddy Day Care, or a berserk donkey in the Shrek films. Maybe you first stumbled across him as the crafty, wily savant of the Saturday Night Live skit Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood, a wickedly clever take the real Mister Rogers actually liked. Very fatherly all the way around” quips Murphy, as only he can, while promoting Coming 2 America, which streams on March 5. And it’s more than a little ironic that he’s usurped Bill Cosby, who once famously reprimanded him for his foul mouth (as Murphy gleefully recounted in his seminal standup special Raw), as America’s comedy dad. His hits are history-making, his flops equally epic. There’s nothing small about the famously private Murphy, who has no social media presence and barely gives interviews. He’s got a towering presence, even via a computer screen, and a wicked, self-aware glint that defies you to look away. In fact, most are startlingly diminished in person. It’s easy to throw around the whole “larger than life” rubric about famous people. Because this is Eddie Murphy we’re talking about. So yeah, it seems like an almost baffling disconnect. My children are everything to me,” says Murphy of his family. I was talking a little while ago, and somebody was like, ‘So what do you think this movie - is your legacy in the movie?’ My legacy is not my movie career or my career in show business. The swaggering purple jumpsuit-wearing standup god is now a contented almost-pensioner who dotingly watches endless rounds of mud puddle-jumping Peppa Pig with his granddaughter Evie. My son is my granddaughter’s uncle.”Ĭurrently spanning from ages two to 31, Murphy shares five children with his ex-wife Nicole Murphy, one each with Paulette McNeely, Tamara Hood, and Mel B, and two children with his fiancée Paige Butcher.Just picture this: Axel Foley/Reggie Hammond/Billy Ray Valentine/ Eddie Murphy as an unapologetically adoring grandpa. So I think she’s five months - a five-month-old grandchild and a 10-month-old son. ![]() He said on their show, “I have my first grandchild. When his youngest son and first grandchild were born just months apart back in 2019, Murphy spoke with Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest in an interview about how amusing it was to think about how his family had expanded. I am blessed - I really, really got lucky.” My kids are so great, normal people – and nobody is like the Hollywood jerk kid.” He wrapped up by saying, “My kids are smart and are trying to do stuff. I don’t have any like, ‘Oh you are the one’. He continued, “I don’t have one bad seed. Despite starring alongside one of his daughters in the recently released Coming 2 America, the star said he didn’t play favorites and was happy about how all of his kids have turned out. “I am so blessed with my kids,” Murphy added. ![]() I realized that if you put your children first, you never make a bad decision,” the actor shared in tidbits to the outlet. The whole idea of being out there and doing three movies a year, that sh*t is over. I found it over and over again and along the way. “I am going to be 60 in April and I have all these babies,” Murphy told the newspaper.
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