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Luke Bryan Makes Cheeky Joke at Concert After Coldplay‘s Viral Fan Cam Video
Kristin Cabot consciously uncoupled herself from her Gwyneth Paltrow fandom.
Shortly after the former head of human resources at Astronomer went viral for cuddling with now-former CEO Andy Byron at a Coldplay concert in July, the Goop founder—and ex-wife of lead singer Chris Martin—starred in an ad promoting the tech company. A move that mortified Cabot.
“I was such a fan of her company,” she told The Times in an interview published Dec. 18, “which seemed to be about uplifting women. And then she did this.”
Cabot added, “I thought, 'How dare she after the beating she got for all the conscious uncoupling stuff.’ What a hypocrite.”
According to Cabot, she was so appalled by the commercial, she threw out everything she owned from Goop.
E! News has reached out to reps for Paltrow for comment but has not heard back yet.
Also in the aftermath, the former HR professional found herself and Byron quickly becoming a meme.
“I was the most maligned HR manager in HR history,” she continued. “I think as a woman, as women always do, I took the bulk of the abuse. People would say things like I was a ‘gold-digger’ or I ‘slept my way to the top’, which just couldn’t be further from reality.”
As Cabot explained, she had “sacrificed” so much to “get where I did in my career.”
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“The amount of hands I’ve had to take off my ass over the years, comments I’ve had to swat away from men,” she said. “I worked so hard to dispel that all my life and here I was being accused of it.”
Cabot—who shares two teenage children with her first husband—also detailed some of the choices she made at the concert that lead to the kiss-cam moment, which saw the herself and Byron immediately duck as the camera came their way, with Martin joking, “Either they're having an affair, or they're just really shy. I'm not quite sure what to do."
"I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss," Cabot told The New York Times in an interview published Dec. 18. "And it's not nothing and I took accountability."
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"I gave up my career for that," she said. "That's the price I chose to pay. I want my kids to know that you can make mistakes, and you can really screw up."
Although she reiterated that she and her second husband Andrew Cabot were separated at the time of the incident—which he later confirmed to People in September through a spokesperson—it was still a difficult situation.
"Andy's my boss," she told The NY Times. "I was so embarrassed and so horrified. I'm the head of H.R. and he's the C.E.O. It's, like, so cliché and so bad."
For a full look at the concert scandal, keep reading.
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What did Coldplay’s Chris Martin say that caused a viral scandal for former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron?
Performing at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., on July 15, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin zeroed in on two people who seemingly sprang out of each other’s arms once they saw that they were on the jumbotron.
“The way we’re going to do that is using our cameras,” Martin told the crowd beforehand. “So, if you look at the screens, we’re going to come looking and see who’s out there to say hello to.” First stop, a young man who was thrilled by an impromptu happy birthday tribute from Martin.
“Oh, look at these two,” the singer said as the camera stopped next on the cozy-looking pair. But then the man ducked and the woman, her hands in front of her face, turned her back to the camera.
“Either they’re having an affair or they’re just really shy,” Martin quipped. “I’m not quite sure what to do.”
As the woman then left her seat, disappearing past the people behind her, the singer added, “Oh s--t! I hope we didn't do something bad.”
The moment was captured for posterity on video by concertgoer Grace Springer and, by the end of the night, internet sleuths had identified the squirrelly pair as Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and Astronomer Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot. Furthermore, as quickly deduced by TikTokers, X users, et al., Byron and Cabot are both married to other people.
Just moments afterward, Martin asked another pair who showed up on the screen, “OK, listen, are you two a couple? Are you two a legitimate couple?”
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Who are Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot?
Byron and Cabot are now-former coworkers who were spotted together at a Coldplay concert and became the talk of the internet. Neither has made any public comment about the incident so far and an apology purportedly from Byron that circulated online the next day was fake, according to Astronomer.
In their respective lives, Byron was chief executive of data operations company Astronomer—which, contrary to what many assumed at first glance, has nothing to do with space—and Cabot was the firm’s head of human resources.
Astronomer confirmed July 24 to NBC News that Cabot had resigned.
Both have since deleted their LinkedIn pages and multiple outlets have reported that Byron’s wife deleted her Instagram and Facebook accounts. They reportedly share two sons.
Cabot is now estranged from Privateer Rum CEO Andrew Cabot, the sixth-generation descendant of a rum distiller of the same name dating back to the American Revolution, per multiple reports. According to the Boston Globe, Andrew traded in a career in tech to found the spirits company in 2011.
According to court docs obtained by NBC News, Kristin filed for divorce from Andrew on Aug. 13, though a spokesperson for Andrew told People that the pair were “privately and amicably separated several weeks before the Coldplay concert." Kristin and Andrew share no children, though Andrew has two children from a previous relationship.
What is Astronomer?
Astronomer is the tech company behind Astro, an operations platform that, per the company’s website, “empowers your team to build, run, and observe data pipelines that just work, all from one place.”
The company was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2018 and also has offices in San Francisco and San Jose, Calif.
Byron joined the company as CEO in 2023 and Cabot came onboard in 2024.
They raised $93 million in a Series D funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures in May 2025, Astronomer announced at the time, per the New York Post, calling it “just one step in Astronomer’s journey to build a durable, lasting software company.”
The funding raised the firm’s valuation to $740 million, according to the Economic Times.
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What did Astronomer say about Andy Byron’s viral Coldplay jumbotron moment?
Astronomer revealed in a July 18 statement that the company’s board of directors had “initiated a formal investigation into this matter” and clarified that the alleged statement making the rounds from Byron was not genuine.
“Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding,” the firm said. “Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability."
The statement also noted that none of the other people seen in the fateful jumbotron video—aside from the pair in question—were Astronomer employees. (The company confirmed separately to the Associated Press that Cabot was the woman with Byron in the video.)
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Is Andy Byron still CEO of Astronomer after the Coldplay jumbotron scandal?
Byron was on leave from Astronomer as of July 18, according to co-founder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy, who was named interim CEO, and then the company announced his resignation the next day.
"Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted,” Astronomer said in a statement to E! News. “The Board will begin a search for our next Chief Executive,” the statement added, noting DeJoy would continue in his new compounded role.
“The events of the past few days have received a level of media attention that few companies—let alone startups in our small corner of the data and AI world—ever encounter,” DeJoy wrote in a July 21 LinkedIn post. “The spotlight has been unusual and surreal for our team and, while I would never have wished for it to happen like this, Astronomer is now a household name.”
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What has Coldplay’s Chris Martin said about the jumbotron “affair” scandal?
Martin couldn’t even begin to try to fix what happened, but he’s had some fun with it since.
During the first Coldplay show since the scandal July 19, the English singer once again advised the crowd at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisc., that some of them might end up on the big screen.
“So please,” Martin said, “if you haven’t done your makeup, do your makeup now.”
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