Coldplay frontman's warning to fans after ‘kiss cam' controversy
The Jumbotron Song footage was captured at Coldplay's concert during their Music of the Spheres world tour in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Wednesday evening (Thursday morning AEST), and appeared to show Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his chief people officer Kristin Cabot cuddling.
Realising they were on the big screen, Byron appeared to duck away while Cabot hid her face behind her hands and turned away from the camera.
'Oh, look at these two ... Either they're having an affair or they're very shy,' Martin said, as laughter rang out across the stadium.
Both are believed to be married to other people and Byron resigned from his position as CEO of the New York-based $1.5 billion company on Saturday, according to a statement posted on LinkedIn by the company.
On Saturday night (local time) at the band's show in Madison Wisconsin, Martin appeared to deliver an oblique nod to the incident while not specifically referring to it as he warmed up the crowd for another round of footage.
'We'd like to say hello to some of you in the crowd,' Martin said, smiling as he strummed his guitar.
'And how we're going to do this is, we're going to use our cameras and we're going to put someone on the big screen. So please if you haven't done your makeup, do your makeup now.'
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