Coldplay kiss-cam woman couldve gone back to a…
The Coldplay couple have been a cold case — frozen so stiff, they have been practically relegated to the morgue of our collective consciousness. Soooo close to being a 2025 footnote and left alone to live their lives in personal.
Naturally, Kristin Cabot, the woman concerned, determined to put the highlight back on herself.
Wha?
Cabot spoke to the New York Times and the Times of London in tales revealed Thursday, six long months after she and boss Andy Byron, the CEO of software program firm Astronomer, have been caught canoodling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay live performance in Boston.
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot, the company’s HR head, have been caught on a kiss cam at a Coldplay live performance, sparking a viral news cycle that led to them both leaving the company. instaagraace/TikTok
You’re remembering now, proper? How their sudden breaking away from each other and ducking out of view sparked an unprecedented virality and worldwide media feeding frenzy?
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“Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy,” the band’s Chris Martin joked.
The notorious 16-second clip from hell led to the executives — both married but, Cabot said, separated from their spouses — leaving their jobs at the start-up, where she was the top of HR.
Then they disappeared, which fueled even more public hypothesis.
Last July, the notorious 16-second clip from hell was scrutinized like NFL sport tape. And it impressed this New York Post cowl. csuarez
I’ve to ask: Why re-appear now? Why put your self proper back in the public eye?
“‘Silence is acceptance.’ And I thought, ‘Oh my god, that’s what’s going to be out there for the rest of her life,’” Cabot told The New York Times.
The NYT piece — headlined “The ritual shaming of a woman at the center of the woman at the Coldplay concert” — was meant to mount sympathy for Cabot, “just a mom from New Hampshire” who describes being hounded by strangers and receiving death threats.
The story frames her, and her alone, as the sufferer: solid from well mannered society because she is a woman, while her male associate in crime is still sitting fairly.
Kristin Cabot reportedly employed the same public relations guru who helped Monica Lewinsky go from political punchline to empowered anti-cyber bullying advocate. FilmMagic
But that’s not the case. They both acquired their licks.
Interestingly, he has stayed mum. “Reached by phone, Byron declined to be interviewed for this article.”
Cabot, 53, meanwhile, reportedly employed the public relations guru who helped Monica Lewinsky reframe her id from Oval Office strumpet to “patient zero” of online bullying.
Similarly, Cabot desires to dispel the notion that she slept her means to the top, saying, “I spent so much of my career pulling men’s hands off my ass.”
She also gave a blow-by-blow of how her and Byron’s workplace connection led to a blossoming romance. It was she who invited him to see Coldplay.
Coldplay’s Chris Martin performing in Boston — with Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot highlighted by a crimson circle in the viewers. TikTok/tina959518
“I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss. And it’s not nothing. And I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That’s the price I chose to pay,” she said.
“I was like: ‘I got this. I can have a crush. I can handle it.’”
Cabot reserved specific scorn for other ladies, including Martin’s ex, Gwyneth Paltrow — who, in July, appeared in an Astronomer advert poking enjoyable at the incident.
“I’ve been hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 300-plus employees at Astronomer,” Paltrow said in a video seen thousands and thousands of instances. “We’ve been thrilled so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation.”
“I was such a fan of her company [Goop] which seemed to be about uplifting women,” Cabot told the Times of London. “And then she did this. I thought, ‘How dare she after the beating she got for all the conscious uncoupling stuff.’ What a hypocrite.”
Kristin Cabot poses with her ex-husband Andrew Cabot back in 2024. She has said he was really in the group at that Coldplay live performance, and she nervous he’d see her onscreen. Maud Cabot/Facebook
Yeah but it was fairly intelligent.
I’ve to admit, I felt sympathy for Cabot and Byron, 50, at the time. It’s a unhappy evolution of our social media-focused tradition, where we fixate and destroy nameless people’s lives for sport and clicks. Laugh now — but it might be you, random Joe Blow, who is up next on the viral disgrace sport.
I doubt Cabot’s summer season was nice by any stretch. And possibly she has a steep climb back to another human sources perch.
But I disagree about silence. It isn’t always acceptance.
Sometimes it’s dignified.
And the big winner of this mini press tour is High Noon.
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