Coldplay kiss-cam husband breaks silence on relationship
The husband of a woman whose affair at a Coldplay concert launched a million memes has spoken about their relationship before the viral moment.
Source: X
The husband of a woman whose affair at a Coldplay concert launched a million memes has revealed the couple had already split before she was exposed on camera.
HR executive Kristin Cabot was caught almost two months ago embracing the CEO of her company at a Coldplay concert in a “kiss-cam” moment that went viral.
Now her husband Andrew has spoken about their relationship prior to Cabot landing in the global spotlight for having an affair.
He told People that he and his wife “were privately and amicably separated several weeks before the Coldplay concert”.
“Their decision to divorce was already underway prior to that evening,” Andrew Cabot’s spokeswoman said.
“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.”
“No further public comment will be made.”
You might like
It was reported in media this week that Cabot had recently filed for divorce from Andrew, her second husband.
Court documents obtained by The Daily Mail showed she filed a divorce petition at a court in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on August 13, just a few weeks after the July 18 kiss-cam moment.
The couple had no children together, according to reports. It was Andrew Cabot’s third marriage.
His second wife, Julia, reportedly told The Daily Mail that his relationship with Kristin was already over before the scandal in July.
“I texted Andrew right after it happened, and he said: ‘Her life is nothing to do with me’, and said they were separating,” Julia told the publication.
“He’s saying it has nothing to do with him, even though they were married and shared a house. But then, the only thing he cares about is money.”
Her departure followed the resignation of CEO Andy Byron. He quit after Astronomer said he was being put on leave pending an investigation.
Stay informed, daily
Byron is married with two children.
The episode resulted in endless memes, parody videos and screenshots of the pair’s shocked faces filling social media feeds.
Cabot and Byron were caught by surprise when singer Chris Martin asked the cameras to scan the crowd for his Jumbotron Song during the concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
They were shown cuddling and smiling. But when they saw themselves on the big screen, Cabot’s jaw dropped, her hands flew to her face and she spun away from the camera while Byron ducked out of the frame.
“Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy,” Martin joked in video that spread quickly around the internet.
When the video first spread online it wasn’t immediately clear who the pair were. But online sleuths rapidly figured out their identities.
Astronomer has previously confirmed their identities in a statement to the Associated Press.
Both of their profiles have since been removed from Astronomer’s website. A media release from last November announcing Cabot’s hiring has also been deleted.
Astronomer was a previously obscure New York tech company. It provides big companies with a platform that helps them organise their data.
Online streams of Coldplay’s songs jumped 20 per cent in the days after the video went viral, according to Luminate, an industry data and analytics company.
-with AAP
