Eddie Murphy Reveals He's Watched the Entirety of The Golden Bachelor, Reacts to Breakup: 'The Same Old S—'

Eddie Murphy is officially part of Bachelor Nation!

The comedy legend, 63, revealed during a wide-ranging discussion on The New York Times‘ Interview the podcast that watched “everyone” The Golden Bachelor when it aired last fall.

“Hey, they broke up, too. You know they broke up,” Murphy said of the show’s original couple, Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, who publicly announced they were divorcing in April after a televised wedding ceremony in January.

“What the f—? Three months later. I was watching it with the f—, I was like, ‘This is so beautiful, they found love in the second part of their lives. This is a beautiful show. Well done!’ Then I found out my mother broke up three months later.”

Eddie Murphy is attending the 80th Golden Globe Awards in 2023.

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Murphy also described a few of his favorite shows while talking to timesat first joking that he was “ashamed to tell” what TV programs he was watching today.

“It’s not a modern thing,” he said. “I’m not ashamed to say that. I watch every night, at 6 o’clock, right after dinner, I watch Steve Harvey and Family feud. And I watch on Tuesdays Masked singer.”

“My wife and I, we watch all these shows, singing competitions and things like that,” he added of his fiancée Paige Butcher, although he did not publicly reveal whether the couple is now married. Murphy continued, “I’ll be like, ‘No, I shouldn’t look s— like this, then you say, ‘I wonder who that turtle is?’ It… draws you in, you wonder who it is.”

The actor’s representatives did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Murphy’s marital status.

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Eddie Murphy attends the premiere of Netflix’s ‘You People’ on January 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

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Elsewhere in the conversation, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F star spoke about the joke made on Saturday night live almost three decades ago which upset him. Speaking to David Marchese, Murphy recalled what he called a “racist” joke David Spade made about him during a December 1995 “Hollywood Minute” sketch.

At the time, Spade called Murphy a “shooting star” after the release of Murphy’s film Vampire in Brooklyn, which Murphy now says “hurt my feelings”. A representative for Spade did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Saturday, June 29.

“This is Saturday night live. I’m the biggest thing that ever came out of that show. The show would have gone off the air if I hadn’t returned to the series, and now you have someone from the cast talking about my career? And I know he can’t just say that,” Murphy continued.

“A joke has to go through those channels. So the producers thought it was OK to say that,” he added. “And all the people that were on that show, you never heard anybody not make fun of somebody’s career. Most of the people that come off that show, they don’t go on and have these amazing careers. It was personal.”

Murphy added that he is now “cool” with Spade, Lorne Michaels and Saturday night live.

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