--- spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole/utils/kernelspec.py.old	2020-11-20 15:44:12.000000000 -0500
+++ spyder/plugins/ipythonconsole/utils/kernelspec.py	2021-01-10 12:56:04.050476445 -0500
@@ -194,6 +194,8 @@
             env_vars.pop('PYTHONHOME', None)
             env_vars.pop('PYTHONPATH', None)
 
+        env_vars.pop('PYTHONEXECUTABLE', None)
+
         # Making all env_vars strings
         clean_env_vars = clean_env(env_vars)
 
