Eddie not Weddie

Eddie Murphy breathed a sigh of relief after it emerged that his whirlwind wedding to film producer, Tracey Edmonds was not legal. The Shrek star has called off the “proper” ceremony they had been planning in Tinsletown; confessing their marriage had hit the buffers since they returned to LA.

The couple tied the knot in a romantic New Year’s beach ceremony on a private island off Bora Bora in the South Pacific. However it later emerged that they should have lived there for a month to make the marriage legal under Polynesian law. Only couples that marry in the town hall in front of the mayor are exempt from the 30-day residency rule.

Murphy, who split from his first wife in 2006 after 12 years, refused to comment. It is said he claimed not to be ready for the commitment in the first place and considers the whole situation a ‘lucky escape’.