After Coldplay scandal, Astronomer hires Chris Martin's ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow to help with the PR mess: 'Thank you for your interest in…'
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kiss cam cheating scandal spiralled out of proportion on social media. The company has hired
Gwyneth Paltrow
, the ex-wife of Coldplay frontman
Chris Martin
to help the AI startup with some public relations.
The company had all of social media buzzing again, this time for hiring Paltrow to mock the widely shared kiss cam controversy involving their former CEO
Andy Byron
and former HR head Kristin Cabot.
The Hollywood actress featured in a promotional video in which she reveals that she has been engaged on a "very temporary basis" by the tech startup to represent over 300 employees and to respond to a few simple questions.
The Hollywood actress who is known for her role in 'Iron Man' then went on to say that the company had "gotten a lot of questions in the last few days, and they wanted me to answer the most common ones."
But instead of addressing the controversy, Ms. Paltrow avoids all the questions and begins outlining how the company works. Paltrow, who cheerfully quipped that the New York-based firm is "thrilled so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation."
The clip then shifts to another question about how the firm's social media team is handling the PR mess - only to be cut off mid-sentence. "Yes, there is still room available at our Beyond Analytics event in September.
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We will now be returning to what we do best - delivering game-changing results for our customers, she says.
This video comes more than a week after Byron and Cabot, who have since resigned from their positions in the company, were caught in a compromising position on the kiss cam during the Coldplay concert. It was their uncomfortable reaction to the "kiss cam" that quickly went viral on social media, triggering various reactions.
The urgent manner in which the couple hid made Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin also suspect that they were either having an affair or they were very shy.
It wasn't long before the internet discovered that both Kristin Cabot and Andy Byron were married to other people. Cabot is married to Andrew Cabot, the owner of the Privateer Rum and a member of one of Boston's richest families, whereas Byron's wife is Megan Kerrigan and shares 3 children.
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