Kelis responds to Bill Murray dating rumors on Instagram: 'I wouldn't bother at all'

• Kelis responded to rumors that she is dating Bill Murray on Instagram.
• In the comment section of her latest post, Kelis wrote she "wouldn't bother at all" responding on the rumors.

Kelis broke her silence on Instagram after rumors swirled that she was dating Bill Murray.

Her response to the rumors occurred in the comment section of the "Milkshake" singer's latest Instagram post, which shows her singer enjoying a beach vacation.

"Ma'am would you care to address these Bill Murray allegations?!? Cuz damn! What he doing with all that?!?" one commenter queried under the post captioned "I'm a beach bum."

"lol no babe, I wouldn't bother at all," Kelis replied.

Speculation that Kelis, 43, and Oscar nominee Murray, 72, were an item began on Wednesday after a report in The Sun claimed the two had a "whirlwind romance."

According to the outlet, Kelis and Murray recently hung out in London after she performed.

A May 2023 tweet from music duo Children of Zeus shows Kelis and Murray together.

Representatives for Murray did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

News of their relationship comes a little more than a year after Kelis' photographer husband, Mike Mora, died from stomach cancer in March 2022.

The singer, who lives on a Southern California farm, opened up about his passing in a March 2023 Instagram video in which she talks more about her lifestyle and her late husband's cancer treatment.

"I'm a very private person generally, especially when there is family involved. But there is no denying the impact and evolution my husbands passing has had on my life," her caption on the post read in part.

Kelis and Mora shared a son, Shepherd, 7, and a daughter, Galilee, 2, and she has another son, Knight, 13, whom she shares with rapper Nas.

Murray also recently lost someone close after his second wife, costume designer Jennifer Butler, died in January 2021.

Murray and Butler met years before they actually wed when she was the costume designer for the 1993 film "Groundhog Day."

They married in 1997 but divorced in 2008 and share four sons together: Caleb, 30, Jackson, 27, Cooper, 26, and Lincoln, 22.

According to the Daily Mail, Butler's passing at 54 was "unexpected."