Coldplay frontman Chris Martin warned followers to get camera-ready throughout his live performance Saturday night time — a wink and a nod to the large scandal brought on by the kiss-cam at his final present.
The second got here just some days after millionaire CEO Andy Byron and his HR government Kristin Cabot sparked an internet firestorm by awkwardly dodging the cam caught canoodling at Coldplay’s Boston present Wednesday.
“We’d like to say hello to some of you in the crowd, how we gonna do that, is we gonna use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen,” Martin advised the group at a present in Camp Randall Stadium in Madison on Saturday, in accordance with movies posted by concertgoers on social media.
“So please, if you haven’t done your makeup, do your makeup now,” he stated.
The cheeky remark got here simply days after Byron, 50, and Cabot, 52, had been caught cuddling — then panicking — as jumbotron cameras zeroed in on them in a crowd of 55,000 throughout Coldplay’s live performance at Gillette Stadium.
Cabot rapidly shielded her face whereas Byron ducked out of view, the video confirmed.
Martin quipped, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy.”
By Thursday morning, the pair was recognized because the high-powered CEO and HR boss of a tech firm.
On Friday — the identical day a brand new video emerged of Byron and Cabot — their beautiful downfall accelerated, as each had been positioned on depart whereas Astronomer stated it was investigating the debacle.
And an interim CEO, firm co-founder Pete DeJoy, a Brooklynite, was named.
By Saturday, information broke that Byron has stop the corporate.
Byron, estimated to be price between $50 and $70 million, was paid between $469,000 and $690,000 a 12 months, however acquired good-looking performance-based bonuses.
Cabot’s future with the AI-driven knowledge firm stays unclear.
