Eddie Murphy is secretly dating waitress Lara LaRue, it has been claimed.

The 'Shrek' actor - who split from producer Tracey Edmonds in January shortly after their unofficial wedding ceremony - has been romancing the 25-year-old beauty since they met while bowling in March.

Eddie Murphy says he has no plans to see his daughter anytime soon because Mel B tricked him into having a baby.

Supposedly, Eddie Says that Melanie Brown, of the Spice Girls, and he only had sex 3 times and she told Eddie she was on birth control. Murphy says that it was a very short and casual three month relationship.

Melanie Brown is "desperate" to have another baby.

The Spice Girl, who is married to film producer Stephen Belafonte, has been feeling broody since the group's world tour finished and wants to have a child with her spouse.

Melanie Brown is totally over Eddie Murphy. The Scary Spice tells Stella magazine that she's "over any kind of relationship" and that her new man is going to be her daughter with Murphy's dad.

"He is going to be her dad - her father-figure," the 32-year-old singer says of her husband Stephen Belafonte, who she married last June.