EDDIE MURPHY CELEBRATES THE BIRTH OF HIS NINTH CHILD

Izzy Oona is Murphy's first child with Paige Butcher. Credit: PA

Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy is celebrating the birth of his ninth child.

The Daddy Day Care and Beverly Hills Cop star welcomed the arrival of daughter Izzy Oona on Tuesday morning.

The baby girl, who weighed 7lb 15oz, is Murphy's first child with Australian actress Paige Butcher.

Murphy's publicist Arnold Robinson said: "Eddie Murphy, 55, and long-time girlfriend Paige Butcher, 36, welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Izzy Oona Murphy.

"Both mother and daughter are doing well. This is the ninth child for Murphy, the first for Butcher."

Murphy's other children include Eric, 26, from his relationship with Paulette McNeely; Christian, 25, from the actor's relationship with Tamara Hood; Bria, 25, Myles, 22, Shayne, 21, Zola, 15, and Bella, 13, children from Murphy's marriage to former wife Nicole Mitchell; and Angel, aged nine, from his previous relationship with former Spice Girl Mel B.

Butcher and Murphy announced in November that they were expecting.