Eddie Murphy has got engaged to girlfriend Tracey Edmonds - just days after they joked about not being engaged yet.

Tracey was spotted with a diamond ring on her engagement finger at the Who’s Your Caddy? premiere last week but Eddie, clearly in the know, joked it wasn’t an engagement ring, because the real thing would be “much bigger”.

Eddie proposed to Tracey with a yellow diamond engagement ring from Cartier on Wednesday and she was spotted “proudly showing [it] off” at lunch with friends at the W Hotel in Westwood, California on Thursday.

A spokesperson for Tracey confirmed the news yesterday saying: “Tracey and Eddie are both very much in love and are excited about spending the rest of their lives together.”

A friend of the couple added to OK magazine that the couple will marry before the end of the year: “It will be a private wedding. Something low key and very romantic.”

“They’re very adorable together, very happy.”

It will be a second marriage for both Eddie and Tracey - he was previously married to Nicole Mitchell Murphy while Tracey was married to Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. They have been dating for around nine months after Eddie broke up with Melanie Brown.