The husband of the woman involved in the Coldplay “kiss-cam” scandal has spoken out after it was reported that she had filed for divorce last month.
The news that Kristin Cabot, Astronomer’s chief people officer at the time, had filed for divorce from Andrew Cabot broke over the weekend, weeks after she was caught on a “kiss-cam” in the arms of Andy Byron, then the company’s CEO, at a Coldplay concert – the footage quickly went viral on social media.
And now, a spokeswoman for Andrew, a Massachusetts-based entrepreneur, has told People that he and Kristin “were privately and amicably separated several weeks before the Coldplay concert.”
She added: “Their decision to divorce was already underway prior to that evening. Now that the divorce filing is public, Andrew hopes this provides respectful closure to speculation and allows his family the privacy they’ve always valued.”
Coldplay’s Chris Martin accidentally exposes astronomer CEO Andy Byron having an affair with his HR chief Kristin Cabot. pic.twitter.com/GMa2g0EiK3
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Per NBC News, the next hearing in the case is set to take place in the family division of New Hampshire’s 10th Circuit Court on November 26.
Andrew is the CEO of Privateer Rum and has two children from a previous marriage. Kristin, meanwhile, resigned from her role at Astronomer days after footage from the concert went viral.
After she and Byron, who was placed on leave and then resigned as CEO amid an investigation, were seen on the “kiss-cam”, she turned her back while he ducked out of sight, leading Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to quip, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”
To date, neither Kristin nor Byron has spoken publicly about the nature of their relationship.
Further footage then emerged showing Martin saying into the microphone, “Oh shit, I hope we didn’t do something bad.”
Coldplay’s Chris Martin after unknowingly exposing Astronomer CEO’s alleged affair with his HR chief:
“I hope we didn’t do something bad…” pic.twitter.com/fDJx8ZYERF
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In Coldplay’s first concert following the incident, he joked: “We’d like to say hello to some of you in the crowd and put some of you on the big screen. How we’re going to do that is we’re going to use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen.
“Please, if you haven’t done your makeup, do your makeup now!”
Following Coldplay’s North America dates, they came to their native UK for another series of shows, with £1 from every ticket sold being donated to support grassroots venues. The final show is set to take place at Wembley Stadium on Friday (September 12) after being rescheduled due to a London Underground strike.
They’ve also teased a huge 2027 leg of their ‘Music Of The Spheres’ world tour, which is already the most-attended tour of all time and only the second to gross over $1billion in revenue.
During the penultimate Wembley show last Saturday (September 6), Martin said: “This tour has 138 more shows to go. We have a break coming up, and we’ll announce the shows for 2027 soon. But we only have two more this year, and then we’re gonna go and make this really special thing that we’ve been making for years and years, and it’s really good. But shush! I’m telling you that because I want to tell you something I haven’t told anybody else. That’s what it is, OK?”
Ahead of the release of the band’s latest album, ‘Moon Music’, last year, Martin told NME about the importance of live venues and their influence on his band. “Playing live is an important connection,” he said. “It doesn’t bother me that there might not be another Coldplay, but it does bother me that there might not be acts that are free to start on the bottom rung and work all the way up – so that by the time they get to stadiums, they are really good.”
