they were caught in a loving embrace<\/a> on the concert \u201ckiss cam.\u201d<\/p>\nByron quite literally ducked out of frame while Cabot covered her face and turned around, putting her back toward the camera.<\/p>\n
Chris Martin, the band\u2019s frontman, initially thought the camera had found a sweet moment, saying: \u201cLook at these two.\u201d<\/p>\n
But their panicked reaction soon had him speculating on a much less savory situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, what?\u201d Martin can be heard saying on stage in a TikTok video that has racked up more than 50 million views and over 5 million likes.<\/p>\n
\u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy,\u201d Martin quipped.<\/p>\n
The faux statement posted late Thursday quickly gained traction on social media, with many users tearing into the fake Byron.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also want to express how troubling it is that what should have been a private moment became public without my consent,\u201d the forged statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI respect artists and entertainers, but I hope we can all think more deeply about the impact of turning someone else\u2019s life into a spectacle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andy Byron ducked down while Kristin Cabot turned her back toward the camera. Grace Springer via Storyful<\/p>\n
Cabot serves as chief people officer at Astronomer. Astronomer<\/p>\n
A social media user on X pointed out fishy behavior from the account that posted the so-called statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe \u2018statement from Astronomer CEO Andy Byron\u2019 that\u2019s going around originated with a 50-follower account called \u2018Peter Enis.\u2019 As in \u2018P. Enis,\u2019\u201d the user wrote.<\/p>\n
That account had included \u201cCBS News\u201d in its username, seemingly trying to pose as a reporter for the Tiffany Network.<\/p>\n
The company has not posted on its social media accounts since the scandal made headlines on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Astronomer did not respond to inquiries about whether it was planning to issue a statement on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tech firm home to CEO Andy Byron and his alleged HR mistress \u2013 who were caught cozying…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":72958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49869,64,38477,33500,171,11756,51069,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-72957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-affairs","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ceos","11":"tag-coldplay","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-kiss","14":"tag-scandal","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}