The HR executive in the Coldplay kiss cam scandal had just taken out a $1.6 million mortgage with her husband before the concert.
Astronomer‘s CEO Andy Byron was caught in an intimate moment with the company’s chief people officer, Kristin Cabot – who is not his wife.
During the Coldplay concert in Boston earlier in the month, Chris Martin has a famous tradition of putting the camera on different members of the crowd and making up impromptu songs about them.
The camera panned round to the couple and Byron had his arms around Cabot in a romantic embrace. They also looked very happy, as if they were on a romantic date.
However, when they realized the camera was on them, things took a very awkward turn. Cabot turned her face from the camera and hid behind her hands.
As for the CEO…he ducked down to get away from the camera. Martin then joked “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy.” causing the audience to laugh.
The moment was filmed and very quickly went viral on social media. Internet sleuths have since discovered that the CEO of the billion dollar tech company is married to someone else and has two children with his wife, while Cabot is also married to someone else.
The companies senior director of people Alyssa Stoddard was also there, clearly looking embarrassed and uncomfortable.
According to one clip shared on TikTok, Byron allegedly said ‘F**king hell, it’s me” while Cabot allegedly said “This is awkward”.
Now, it has come out that Cabot and her husband, Andrew Cabot – who is the heir to his family fortune of over $15.4 billion, had recently purchased a home in New Hampshire for $2.2 million.
According to documents obtained by the media, the couple are named on the loan paperwork for a mortgage with Morgan Stanley worth $1.6 million.
They had allegedly planned to renovate the four bedroom home. Andrew Cabot appears to own Privateer Rum and was born into a wealthy family that leads back generations.
The New York Times reported that the Cabot family were worth $200 million in 1972 while in 2025, the times reported that value had shot up to $15.4 billion.
Ironically, Cabot’s LinkedIn profile claims she “wins trust with employees of all levels, from CEOs to assistants.” This has of course become a running joke online, with one person writing: “She definitely built trust with the CEO,”.
The woman who filmed the now viral moment has revealed what happened after she stopped recording.
Grace Springer’s clip has been viewed over 120 million times, at the time of writing.
She revealed: “As soon as it cut off they disappeared, and then Chris tried to save the show kind of, he moved on to another couple and did something really sweet with that couple.
“But people were definitely still talking about it.
“[Martin said] something along the lines of, ‘I hope we didn’t just do something really bad’.”
“I had no clue who the couple was, I thought it was an interesting reaction to the kiss cam and my friends were actually the ones who pushed me to post it after the concert. I never would have expected this,” she said.
“I thought it was more innocent, but the group I was with said ‘no something weird is going on’, because it was kind of the talk of the concert.
“Everybody was talking about it. I was like, I don’t know, I think they were just shy.
“Then I realised I had the video and I looked back on it and when I saw his face I thought this seems suspicious.”
“At first, I was experiencing a little bit of guilt,” she admitted. “It’s heartbreaking to go through something like that, but at the end of the day you need to be held accountable for your actions.
“I really just feel for the partners… I’m hoping that it will give them the opportunity not to waste any more time with a partner that doesn’t give them the respect they deserve.
“Unfortunately, I think a lot of women including myself has been through situations like that. I had people in my life that knew and didn’t tell me, so I would want to be told.
“I don’t have much respect for cheaters, I think at the end of the day you have to do the right thing.
“It doesn’t mean they can’t be good people moving forward.”
Speaking to This Morning, Grace revealed: “I’ve actually made no money from the video itself or the views. It’s not monetised.”
“In the moment when I filmed it, I didn’t think much of it, but of course, everyone was kind of chattering. There was over 50,000 people at the concert, so it was a hot topic.” she continued.
“It was only later that she realized how popular the video could be: “I was debriefing with my friends and I said ‘Let’s review the footage, let’s see if it really looks that bad.’ And I think it does.”
“But as I said, there were over 50,000 people and I’m not the only one that caught it on camera, so if it wasn’t me who uploaded it, I’m sure someone else would have.”
It has also come out that in November 2024, Byron gushed about Cabot online. He wrote: “Kristin’s exceptional leadership and deep expertise in talent management, employee engagement, and scaling people strategies will be critical as we continue our rapid trajectory,”.
“She is a proven leader at multiple growth-stage companies and her passion for fostering diverse, collaborative workplaces makes her a perfect fit for Astronomer.”
The press release continued: [Cabot] “has a proven track record of preserving and enriching company culture at organizations experiencing rapid growth,”.
Cabot was also quoted as saying she was left “energized in my conversations with Andy and the Astronomer leadership team about the opportunities that exist here.”
Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, has responded to the scandal.
She has made it clear she is stepping away from her husband publicly, by removing his last name from her social media.
She has since deleted her own social media pages.
