Twist in Coldplay kiss-cam scandal as HR exec’s husband was at same concert with his date

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Turns out the Coldplay concert that blew up a corporate career wasn’t just a one-sided affair.

The husband of ousted Astronomer HR exec Kristin Cabot wasn’t sitting at home that night, blissfully unaware. It has now emerged that Andrew Cabot was at the very same concert, but with a date of his own.

Andrew Cabot had already moved on

Andrew, who had been married to Kristin, 52, for just two years, had already broken his silence once to confirm he and his wife were separated at the time of the scandal.

But he wasn’t just “separated.” He was there with another woman, who’s now his girlfriend.

“Kristin was in the box with people from work, though it wasn’t a company box, and Andrew was actually there too with a date, with a woman who is now his girlfriend,” a source spilled to The Times of London.

“They had been separated and living apart for several weeks. It was amicable…. [Cabot] has felt like she can’t speak out as people in the middle of a divorce can’t say anything public.”

The infamous kiss-cam moment at Coldplay concert

Of course, Kristin didn’t exactly fly under the radar. She and Astronomer CEO Andy Byron cozied up in their VIP box until the camera panned to them. Cabot ducked, Byron looked stunned, and even Coldplay frontman Chris Martin couldn’t resist calling it out.

“Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy,” Martin quipped from the stage.

Byron appeared to mutter, “F****** hell, it’s me.”

That viral moment snowballed, and it wasn't long before both Cabot and Byron were out of jobs.

According to an insider, dodging the camera wasn’t about guilt. “Kristin wasn’t hiding; she doesn’t know why she ducked. She knew it was inappropriate to behave that way with her boss as the head of HR,” the source explained.

“It was not that she was caught cheating; it was not some affair,” they stressed. “She fully acknowledges [the hug] was inappropriate, but that was the only inappropriate thing she did.”

The insider insisted Cabot and Byron had nothing more than “a great friendship.”

Fallout hits both families

Andrew was blindsided when reporters swarmed the couple’s $2.2 million waterfront home in Rye, New Hampshire, the same place he shared with Kristin and his two children.

He confirmed to People that he and Kristin had already been “privately and amicably separated several weeks before the Coldplay concert.”

“Their decision to divorce was already underway prior to that evening,” a spokesperson for Andrew, who runs Privateer Rum, added. “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.”

As for Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan, 50, she didn’t waste time after the scandal erupted. She moved out, ditched her wedding ring, and even scrubbed “Byron” from her Facebook account before deleting it entirely.

Corporate damage control by Astronomer

Astronomer, the DataOps company suddenly in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, had to take action. Both Byron and Cabot were swiftly placed on leave before they ultimately resigned.

“Before this week, we were known as a pioneer in the DataOps space, helping data teams power everything from modern analytics to production AI,” the company said in a statement at the time of the scandal.

“While awareness of our company may have changed overnight, our product and our work for our customers have not.”