Mel B names Eddie Murphy on child's birth cert

Former Spice Girl Melaine Brown has reignited her paternity feud with Eddie Murphy after she named the actor on her newborn daughter's birth certificate.

The singer, formally known as Scary Spice, gave birth to Fortuna Daphne Bay two weeks ago, but she now faces a paternity battle with Murphy, who insists he is not the child's father.

However, a friend of Brown told British newspaper the Daily Mirror: "Mel has no doubt Eddie is the father and she wanted to make the point."

The couple dated for six months last year until Murphy announced on TV that "we're not together anymore".

Last November - a month after Brown announced her pregnancy news - Dreamgirls actor Murphy publicly dismissed her claims of paternity on Dutch TV show RTL Boulevard, saying: "I don't know whose child that is, until it comes out and has a blood test."