{"id":4206,"date":"2026-06-01T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/dan-aykroyds-daughter-belle-appears-in-his-place-at-eddie-murphy-afi-tribute-event\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:46:23","slug":"dan-aykroyds-daughter-belle-appears-in-his-place-at-eddie-murphy-afi-tribute-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/dan-aykroyds-daughter-belle-appears-in-his-place-at-eddie-murphy-afi-tribute-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Aykroyd&#8217;s daughter Belle appears in his place at Eddie Murphy AFI tribute event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F129389940.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dan Akroyd\u2019s daughter Belle Aykroyd appeared in her dad\u2019s place at Eddie Murphy\u2019s AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony more than a year after the actor <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/02\/16\/photos\/celebrities-at-snl-50-anniversary-special\/\">skipped \u201cSNL 50.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father wanted to be here, planned to be here, wrote these remarks, and then life got in the way,\u201d Belle said onstage at the event, which premiered on Netflix Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The theater performer, 32, then read a letter from the \u201cBlues Brothers\u201d star in his absence.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Dan Akroyd\u2019s daughter Belle Aykroyd (pictured left) appeared in her dad\u2019s place at Eddie Murphy\u2019s AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for AFI<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Belle (seen above) said the \u201cConeheads\u201d star wanted to be there but \u201clife got in the way.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for AFI<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cGood evening, sir. We made a big hit classic movie together, man. A critical and financial success,\u201d Belle read, referring to Murphy and Dan\u2019s 1983 comedy \u201cTrading Places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Trading Places\u2019\u00a0is now in the pantheon of Christmas movies, for Baby Jesus\u2019 sake. It was a solid script with a great director, John Landis, plus talented and well-liked actors, but Eddie, it was you,\u201d she continued. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was your power, brilliance, talent, skills, and vibrant charisma that propelled the movie into the realm of the greats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Belle concluded her father\u2019s speech by reading his memorable quote to the \u201cBeverly Hills Cop\u201d actor\u2019s character in\u00a0\u201cTrading Places.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking good, Billy Ray,\u201d she read.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The theater performer (seen above) read a letter from Dan in his absence. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for AFI<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cGood evening, sir. We made a big hit classic movie together, man. A critical and financial success,\u201d Belle read, referring to Murphy and Dan\u2019s 1983 comedy \u201cTrading Places\u201d (as seen above). <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Dan (seen above with the comedian in 1983) said Murphy\u2019s \u201cpower, brilliance, talent, skills, and vibrant charisma\u201d propelled the movie. <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In February 2025, Dan skipped\u00a0\u201cSNL 50: The Anniversary Special\u201d\u00a0because he wanted to experience the milestone as a fan rather than as a working participant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to be at home and I wanted to watch the show beginning to end,\u201d he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/dan-aykroyd-explains-why-he-skipped-the-snl-50-special-11778901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told \u201cEntertainment Weekly\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at Comic-Con 2025 last July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew if I was there, I\u2019d be in a dressing room, I\u2019d be working. I wanted to see it live. I\u2019m a fan of the show today, and I watch it all the time,\u201d the \u201cConheads\u201d star added. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>It\u2019s unclear why Dan (seen above with his family in 2016) was not able to attend the event in person.  <span class=\"credit\">Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Dan (seen above in 2016) skipped the \u201cSNL 50\u201d anniversary special last February. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>He said he wanted to experience the milestone as a fan rather than as a working participant. (Pictured: Dan in 2019.) <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Universal Studios Hollywood<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI love these new players; I think they\u2019re just great. I just wanted to see and live nostalgically with my family in my own home, eating my own popcorn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan appeared on the hit NBC sketch comedy show for its first four seasons, from 1975 to 1979.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several of his fellow original cast members were present for the anniversary special, including\u00a0Laraine Newman\u00a0and\u00a0Jane Curtin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/01\/celebrity-news\/dan-aykroyds-daughter-belle-appears-in-his-place-at-eddie-murphy-afi-tribute-event\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Akroyd\u2019s daughter Belle Aykroyd appeared in her dad\u2019s place at Eddie Murphy\u2019s AFI Life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129389940.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}