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Yahoo
4 days ago
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Chris Martin Issues Cheeky Kiss Cam Warning After Viral CEO Moment
A TikTok video captured Coldplay's issuing a cheeky kiss cam warning to concertgoers at the band's latest concert, days after a viral moment involving Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and a woman during a concert. Speaking to his fans, the singer alerted them that a few of them might be featured on the jumbotron. Seemingly referencing the incident, Martin proceeded to guide the audience on how the kiss cam would work. Chris Martin didn't address viral kiss cam moment in his following show but warned concertgoers playfully On July 19, Coldplay's frontman, Chris Martin, playfully warned concertgoers about the kiss cam, which was captured in a TikTok video. The concert, held at Wisconsin's Camp Randall Stadium, saw the singer addressing the crowd about beginning the jumbotron section of the night. Last week, during a viral kiss cam moment at Coldplay's Massachusetts concert, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was captured embracing a woman on the jumbotron. The performance reportedly displayed fans in attendance on the screen when it panned to the duo. As soon as they spotted the camera, Byron ducked out of view while the woman turned back to seemingly hide her face. While Martin didn't directly address the moment in the band's latest concert, his warning was enough for fans to link it back to the viral incident that has garnered worldwide attention. Users have since claimed that Byron is a married man. Both the CEO and the woman involved are yet to officially address the situation. In the TikTok video uploaded by @ Martin informed that the band would be greeting the crowd via the kiss cam. The singer guided those unaware, stating that they would be using the cameras to feature some fans on the screen. He continued, 'So please, if you haven't done your makeup, do your makeup now.' Meanwhile, since the viral kiss cam moment, an apology allegedly posted by the Astronomer CEO started making rounds online. The company then clarified it was fake and, more recently, announced that Byron has resigned. The post Chris Martin Issues Cheeky Kiss Cam Warning After Viral CEO Moment appeared first on Reality Tea. Solve the daily Crossword
Wall Street Journal
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
The One Thing No One Seems to Be Talking About With That Coldplay Couple: Their Ages
A lot has been said about the Astronomer CEO who was caught at a Coldplay concert embracing a woman who was not his wife. But there's one detail in the kiss-cam kerfuffle that's gone largely unmentioned: their ages. Andy Byron is 50, according to public records; Cabot is 52.
Yahoo
6 days ago
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CEO Andy Byron Looking To Sue Coldplay After Viral Kiss Cam Moment, Says ‘Source'
Coldplay's viral kiss cam moment may take a turn for the worse for the band. Insiders exclusively told Rob Shuter's #ShuterScoop that former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, who is at the center of the incident, is considering suing Coldplay with a lawsuit over the viral moment. According to the source, Byron isn't too happy with the fact that the clip of him embracing a woman has not only taken over the internet but has also become fodder for jokes. Coldplay's Chris Martin has 'laughed out loud' at the idea of being sued over kiss cam, says 'insider' Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has had a rough couple of days since being involved in a viral kiss cam at Coldplay's concert. For those unaware, the band's Massachusetts concert captured Byron embracing his alleged work colleague on the jumbotron screen. This moment soon went viral, with users claiming that he is a married man. The incident, coupled with his resignation as CEO, has led Byron to consider going the legal route against the band for exposing him on screen. According to Rob Shuter's exclusive report, the former CEO is exploring a lawsuit against Coldplay over the viral kiss cam incident. Insiders revealed that Byron is citing 'emotional distress' and 'invasion of privacy' while planning to sue the band and the event organizers. A source close to him expressed that he 'didn't consent to being filmed or publicly humiliated.' Byron reportedly 'thinks Coldplay made him a meme.' Meanwhile, legal experts told the outlet that they didn't view his legal course coming into fruition. An attorney noted that one can expect no privacy when it's a public concert with cameras and thousands of people gathered. The expert believed that the former Astronomer CEO is likely 'trying to shift blame.' While Coldplay is yet to respond to the report, sources shared that frontman Chris Martin 'laughed out loud' at Byron's attempt to sue the band. The viral kiss cam moment is still a raging topic of conversation on the internet. The video, which captured Byron and the woman in an embrace, ended up becoming a massive pop culture moment. The clip featured both parties hiding their faces after realizing they were on the jumbotron. Originally reported by Varsha Narayanan on Reality Tea. The post CEO Andy Byron Looking To Sue Coldplay After Viral Kiss Cam Moment, Says 'Source' appeared first on Mandatory. Solve the daily Crossword
Bloomberg
22-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
How to Keep Your CEO Off the Jumbotron
Opinion Why do executives, like the Astronomer CEO, keep taking needless risks? Bloomberg Opinion columnist Beth Kowitt knows a lot — maybe too much — about their bad behavior. (Source: Bloomberg)
Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Editorial: At a Coldplay concert, a kiss cam catches a cuddle and ruins lives
If only the couple caught canoodling Wednesday night on the Jumbotron at the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, had simply done what everyone else does in those moments at the arena or the ballpark: Thrown their hands in the air, cheered, hooped and hollered. Then they likely would have escaped attention afterward, and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin would not have said from the stage, 'Oh, look at these two! Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy.' Hungry people would not then have uploaded the image of the couple to TikTok, Twitter and Instagram, and all the other unfettered, unedited sites that traffic in human misery. Internet sleuths with the aid of artificial intelligence and LinkedIn would not have figured out the identity of the couple and quickly discovered that it was (married) Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot, the head of that tech company's human resources department. Byron would not have had to write a letter of apology to his colleagues and family, saying, 'You deserve better from me as a partner, a father, and a leader.' Page Six would not have felt the need to investigate Byron's work history and Byron's wife, whose professional life and number of children is now a subject of interest to the Hindustan Times, for God's sake, would not have had to remove the surname Byron from her Facebook page because she was being hounded and doxed. But they did not do that. They did the opposite. Cabot, clearly mortified, turned and hid her face, and Andy Byron sunk out of the frame like the guilty party in a lineup of potential perps. And how did most people react to this horrific, humiliating, unanticipated, life-changing sequence of events for at least three people, not to mention their colleagues and their families? Simple schadenfreude. In essence: Serves them right for going together to that Coldplay concert and cuddling. When did America get this cruel? The Coldplay public humiliation is a cautionary tale of atrophied American privacy. It's also an indictment of the tech-induced loss of human discretion and the warping of common decency by the thirst for an attention-getting and sometimes monetizable post. We're not here to endorse apparent affairs, if that is even what this was, between CEOs and their subordinate heads of HR, managers whose portfolio typically includes offering a channel and recourse for people who face workplace romantic approaches. We don't doubt for a second that somewhere in the tiny print of the digital agreement when Byron and Cabot bought their tickets that they gave up their right to privacy and agreed to the broadcasting of their images in the stadium, and we dutifully note the irony that a couple of Coldplay lovebirds working for a company that 'empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, & AI to life' aren't in the best position to lament being turned into a viral sensation. With the help of bots, to boot. (That Hindustan Times story sure looked suspiciously like AI to us.) Our point is that everyone mentioned above is a private citizen (or used to be) and that none of the people casting public scorn actually know even remotely enough about their personal relationships to be in a position to pass judgment. This couple didn't ask to be featured on the big screen and no doubt thought there would be anonymity in the crowd at a rock concert. Reasonably so. Back in the day, most concertgoers would not just have been allergic to sleuthing so as to expose an extramarital affair, but would have been thoroughly appalled even at the notion that anyone should try. Since the 1960s, rock shows have positioned themselves as places to have fun and maybe even put your arm around the wrong person, with their consent. Society has seen them as safety valves. If you can't let yourself go a bit at, say, Lollapalooza or Coachella, American life sure would be a lot less tolerable for most of us. Apparently, that's all in the past. The surveillance state hasn't just come to stand guard over all of our leisure activities, it now is aided and abetted by the publishing and research skills of laptop trolls and voyeurs who we think could do to be more respectful of the old truism, 'there but for the grace of God go I.' Martin seemed to regret his comment after it was too late. He should have kept his mouth shut in the first place. We've never been big fans of stadium cams, an easy way for sports teams and computers to generate exploitable content from their paying customers without compensating them. Some wave and enjoy the fleeting attention. But many of us don't like being thrown up on the screen without a far more explicit mode of consent than the blanket permissions we all sign away just to watch a ballgame and live our lives. Some things are none of our business for good reason. Alas, most people don't seem to learn that until their own personal business becomes the raw material for a social media company's profits. _____ Solve the daily Crossword
