M.I.A. has split from her long-term fiance Benjamin Bronfman, according to a report in the New York Daily News .
The British hip hop star and Bronfman, an environmentalist, have a two-year-old son together, Ikhyd ( NOT ‘Ickett’ ). The Daily News says it was M.I.A. – real name Maya Arulpragasam – who decided to end the relationship. Neither Arulpragasam or Bronfman have passed comment on the reports.
According to the article, the couple had been spending lengthy periods apart, with the 29-year-old Bronfman and Ikhyd staying in New York while M.I.A. was in her hometown of London.
The 36-year-old rapper has discussed her wedding in interviews before. Last year she told one U.S. magazine:
“I’ve always wanted to get married in a white suit. I used to work at a Kodak lab in England, cutting photos after they’d come out of the wash, and in one I saw this couple getting married on a beach in white suits, and their kid was there.”
Alas, the white suits may have to be hung away for another day.
As you probably know, M.I.A. has been attracting headlines aplenty at the moment, after she flipped the bird during the Super Bowl halftime show . With crushing predictability, the one-fingered salute prompted a hilariously over-the-top period of self-reflection and moral hand-wringing from the American press.
A spokesperson for NBC sports offered a trembling apology for the non-incident that was aired during halftime – the channel’s delay system reacted too slowly and ended up blurring the screen a second too late, corrupting millions of children for ever in the process or something.
