If Eddie Murphy ever proposed to you, chances are you’d either think “Not with your wayward reputation,” or “Hang on, I’m a chap and we’ve never even met. How odd,” but not Tracey Edmonds.

Eddie Murphy married his girlfriend Tracey Edmonds yesterday on a private island in French Polynesia, simultaneously putting all his past relationship woes behind him. And isn’t getting married on New Year’s Day the perfect way to start a year? It’s like Eddie Murphy is looking Tracey Edmonds in the eye and telling her “This is how it’ll be for us all year, or at least until I get you pregnant, deny getting you pregnant, leave you for another woman, repeatedly dodge your requests for a DNA test until I’m ordered to take one by a court and then do the voice of a funny donkey for a tired cartoon sequel to pay off all my child support bills. So about three weeks, then.”