By Mallika Soni,News18

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Former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his company’s ex–Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot insist they were “just friends” when they were caught in a compromising embrace on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert, even as the fallout from the viral fiasco cost both their high-profile jobs.
The incident unfolded on July 16 at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts, when the stadium’s jumbotron panned to Andy Byron, 51 and Kristin Cabot, 52, locking arms during the band’s Music of the Spheres World Tour. Startled by the camera, the pair awkwardly ducked out of view, fueling speculation of an affair.
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin even cracked a quip after the embrace flashed on screen, saying, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”
But a source close to Kristin Cabot told People magazine, “There was no affair. Kristin and Andy had an excellent working relationship, a great friendship. It was inappropriate to be hugging your boss at a concert, and she accepts full responsibility for it. But the scandal, the downfall, the loss of the job- all of that is unfair.”
Both executives resigned from the AI-centric New York firm soon after the kiss cam clip went viral, with Andy Byron stepping down the next day and Kristin Cabot following less than a week later.
The drama spilled into Kristin Cabot’s personal life as well as in August she filed for divorce from her husband, Andrew Cabot, a sixth-generation heir to the Privateer Rum fortune. Though separated before the incident, Andrew Cabot had been abroad on a business trip to Japan during the concert and only learned of his wife’s public embrace after returning home.
Adding to the bizarre twist, the source told the outlet claimed Andrew Cabot was also at the Coldplay show- on a date with another woman.