Coldplay refuses to take Kiss Camera off tour
Chris Martin has insisted that Coldplay’s Jumbotron Kisscam will remain part of the band’s tours despite the scandal that appears to have exposed Coldplay’s infidelity.
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Christine Cabot is looking to a future that doesn’t include former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron.
In a March 17 interview on The Oprah Podcast, Cabot opened up about the much-talked-about moment known as the Coldplay kiss cam that forever changed her and her family’s lives, and shared an update on her relationship with Byron.
“I ended my communication with Andy in mid-fall. There was a big mistake in terms of honesty and integrity,” Cabot told Oprah. “I wasn’t…he wasn’t. He wasn’t the person to express himself to me. And lying is not a non-negotiable for me.”
Rumors that the pair were having an affair quickly spread like wildfire, with frontman Chris Martin joking that they were having an affair and that they were both just really shy, shortly after the pair came into the spotlight after being photographed hugging on Coldplay’s kiss camera at a concert in July 2025.
Days after the video went viral, Mr. Byron tendered his resignation, and Mr. Cabot followed suit.
Cabot, who broke her silence in an interview with The New York Times on December 18, said that in the days and weeks that followed, she received hundreds of phone calls, death threats and verbal harassment while out in public, revealing that her personal information had been exposed.
“But I was left with my bag and I was not attacked for this. As you know, he remains silent,” Cabot said. “For me, that’s not a quality I look for in a friend, partner, or boss. So it’s not relevant right now.”
Cabot says Andy Byron wasn’t “as honest as he could have been.”
Ms. Cabot believed Ms. Byron had also broken up, but told Ms. Winfrey, “You missed the mark by being as honest as you could with me.” Byron has not publicly addressed the incident.
Cabot previously told the Times that this concert was the first time her relationship with Byron turned romantic. At lunch in 2025, she learned that she and Byron were separated from their respective spouses.
Cabot was separated from her husband and was in the middle of divorce proceedings at the time. She said she and Byron never even kissed before the concert, much less had a sexual relationship as some people assume.
After a few drinks, the two were caught up in the moment, but that feeling was shattered when he saw her, first on the Jumbotron and then again on social media.
“I want to be really careful because the world has spoken for me. I don’t want to do the same to other people and their families. It doesn’t feel good,” Cabot said. “But I will say that much of what was told to me was not true.”
Cabot, who said she was struggling to find work after the Coldplay kiss cam incident, believes the “whole trajectory” of the situation would have been different had Byron issued a prompt statement, like her husband Andrew.
“But it didn’t matter…It was great that Andrew did it, but it still left me…the tone changed a little bit,” Cabot said. “Okay, she separated, but he didn’t. So she’s still a home wrecker.”
Contributor: Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY
