{"id":90627,"date":"2025-07-25T06:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90627\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:01:10","slug":"astronomers-hr-head-resigns-following-coldplay-kiss-cam-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90627\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomer&#8217;s HR Head Resigns Following Coldplay Kiss-Cam Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                      2025-07-24T22:10:01Z<\/p>\n<p>                              Share<\/p>\n<p>                            Facebook<br \/>\n                                  <a class=\"dropdown-item label-md\" data-email=\"\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Astronomer's HR head resigns following Coldplay kiss-cam scandal with CEO&amp;body=Astronomer's%20HR%20head%20resigns%20following%20Coldplay%20kiss-cam%20scandal%20with%20CEO%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fastronomer-hr-head-kristin-cabot-resigns-2025-7&amp;\" title=\"Email\" aria-label=\"Click to email\" data-utm-term=\"\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_url&quot;:&quot;mailto:?subject=Astronomer's HR head resigns following Coldplay kiss-cam scandal with CEO&amp;body=Astronomer's%20HR%20head%20resigns%20following%20Coldplay%20kiss-cam%20scandal%20with%20CEO%0D%0A%0D%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fastronomer-hr-head-kristin-cabot-resigns-2025-7&amp;&quot;,&quot;share_type&quot;:&quot;email&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;sharebar&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                            Email<br \/>\n                          <\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>                            X<\/p>\n<p>                            LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>                            Reddit<\/p>\n<p>                            Bluesky<\/p>\n<p>                            WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>                            Copy link<\/p>\n<p>                            lighning bolt icon<br \/>\n                            An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt.<\/p>\n<p>                            Impact Link<\/p>\n<p>                        Save<br \/>\n                        Saved<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"d-md-none app-button\" data-app-button=\"\" data-only-on=\"mobile\" data-component-type=\"app-button\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\" title=\"Download the app\" aria-label=\"Click to download the app\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/insider-app.onelink.me\/4cpG\/?af_js_web=true&amp;af_ss_ver=2_3_0&amp;af_dp=insider%3A%2F%2Fbi%2Fpost%2Fastronomer-hr-head-kristin-cabot-resigns-2025-7&amp;af_force_deeplink=true&amp;is_retargeting=true&amp;deep_link_value=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fastronomer-hr-head-kristin-cabot-resigns-2025-7&amp;pid=businessinsider&amp;c=post_page_share_bar_v2_smart_4.13.23\" data-track-view=\"{&quot;subscription_experience&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;sharebar&quot;}\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;event&quot;:&quot;app_cta&quot;,&quot;click_text&quot;:&quot;read_in_app&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;sharebar&quot;}\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>                      Read in app<\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>              This story is available exclusively to Business Insider<br \/>\n                subscribers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/subscription\" class=\"subscription-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become an Insider<\/a><br \/>\n                and start reading now.<br \/>\n              Have an account? Log in.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"body-md\">A clip of a &#8220;kiss cam&#8221; footage from a Coldplay concert in Boston recently went viral.<\/li>\n<li class=\"body-md\">The video showed Astronomer&#8217;s HR head, Kristin Cabot, and then-CEO, Andy Byron, holding each other.<\/li>\n<li class=\"body-md\">The incident has now lead to the resignation of both executives and an internal investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/astronomer-ceo-andy-byron-on-leave-coldplay-kiss-cam-video-2025-7\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"noopener\">Astronomer<\/a>&#8216;s head of people, Kristin Cabot, resigned on Thursday, a week after she went viral in a video that showed her and the company&#8217;s then-CEO, Andy Byron, embracing during a Coldplay concert &#8220;kiss cam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The company confirmed the resignation to Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Byron, the former CEO, resigned last week after the board launched a formal investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coldplay-kiss-cam-video-astronomer-andy-byron-social-media-reaction-2025-7\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;kiss cam&#8221; fiasco<\/a> occurred on July 16 during a Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>As Coldplay singer Chris Martin sang and worked the crowd, the stadium&#8217;s Jumbotron projected a video feed of a man holding a woman in his arms.<\/p>\n<p>The visceral reaction of the woman, covering her face, and the man ducking \u2014 coupled with Martin&#8217;s commentary \u2014 had all the makings of a viral video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh oh, what? Either they&#8217;re having an affair or they&#8217;re just very shy,&#8221; the Coldplay singer said.<\/p>\n<p>It took <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/astronomer-ceo-andy-byron-awkward-moment-coldplay-concert-viral-tiktok-2025-7\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"noopener\">less than a day<\/a> for internet sleuths to learn the identities of the people in the video.<\/p>\n<p>The footage, which spread like wildfire on the internet, turned into a timely message about <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coldplay-kiss-cam-gen-z-social-media-lesson-astronomer-ceo-2025-7\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"noopener\">privacy in the age of smartphones<\/a>, social media, and 24\/7 surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Byron and Cabot have not commented on the viral clip since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025-07-24T22:10:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49362,49365,4381,14336,55126,638,171,51774,60296,51454,49363,3546,10862,60297,2450,67,132,68,2452],"class_list":{"0":"post-90627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-andy-byron","9":"tag-astronomer","10":"tag-business-insider","11":"tag-ceo","12":"tag-coldplay-kiss-cam-scandal","13":"tag-company","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-formal-investigation","16":"tag-hr-head-resigns","17":"tag-kiss-cam","18":"tag-kristin-cabot","19":"tag-people","20":"tag-resignation","21":"tag-then-ceo","22":"tag-thursday","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114912354830459562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90627","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=90627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}