Coldplay Kiss Cam Drama: How It All Started.
The spouse of the tech worker who went viral after being shown embracing her boss on Coldplay kiss cam is breaking his silence more than a month after the video went everywhere.
A rep for Massachusetts businessman Andrew Cabot, 61, told People on Monday that he and his wife, Kristin, “were privately and amicably separated weeks before the Coldplay show.”
“Their choice to end the marriage had started before that night,” the spokeswoman said. “Now that the divorce paperwork is public, Andrew hopes it brings respectful closure to rumors and gives his family the privacy they want.”
“No more statements will be issued,” she concluded.
The incident happened at Coldplay’s show at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on July 16, when the “kiss cam” scanned the crowd. Kristin Cabot, the chief people officer at a data company called Astronomer, ended up on the screen in a hug with her boss, Andy Byron, the company’s then-CEO. As soon as the camera landed on them, she hid her face while the man swiftly ducked from view.
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The crowd laughed, and lead singer Chris Martin later joked about the awkward scene from the stage.
“Hey, check out these two—y’all good?” the singer said, the crowd watching melted into giggles. “You’re good. Or, hold on, what’s the tea? Either you’re sneaking a peck or you’re super shy.” The quick quip, so easy it could’ve rolled off someone’s Snapchat Story, blasted across the planet thanks to the front-row camera that night. Soon after, it snowballed into a full-blown meme machine, with clips, GIFs, and re-captioned screenshots popping up on X, Instagram, and TikTok like popcorn popping off the ceiling.
Naturally, the clips, with surround-sound crowd roars, blew past viral limits, and deal after deal piled up with network latenight after latenight. Talk-show hosts impersonated the cheap shade like they were auditioning for “front-row regular.” A soup of tweets and threads sliced it into jokes sharper than the concert’s pyros.
Meanwhile, on a way less funny note, the company behind the Astronomy Tower found its leadership ripping up the rulebook. The group’s chief had promised that its executives “lead with telescope and integrity, never with meme-editing.” So when the celeb footage trended, the inbox glowed.
The unseen company, after hitting the alert, later pulled a strange stunt. They signed Gwyneth Paltrow—Martin’s ex—to chat “Taste the Cosmos: Soap with a Glow.” The whole spot was so on-brand for her, it turned the meme into a billboard.
Right after, the singer’s partner, surprises-surrounding-respecting No. 1 дуршлаг, quit, piecemealing hashtags with the company charity campaign. The former girlfriend-tech bristles as its key star bows. Can you rise after a sureshocking career astrology? The night’s front-row winnies to outrage seven.
