Female HR exec caught on Coldplay cam resigns after embrace with CEO went viral
Cabot and Byron were caught by surprise when singer Chris Martin asked the cameras to scan the crowd for his Jumbotron Song during the concert last week at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. They were shown cuddling and smiling, but when they saw themselves on the big screen, Cabot's jaw dropped, her hands flew to her face, and she spun away from the camera, while Byron ducked out of the frame. 'Either they're having an affair, or they're just very shy,' Martin joked in video that spread quickly around the internet.
When the video first spread online, it wasn't immediately clear who they were, but online sleuths rapidly figured out their identities. The company has previously confirmed the identities of the couple in a statement to the AP. Both of their profiles have now been removed from Astronomer's website, and a November press release announcing her hiring has also been deleted.
Astronomer was a previously obscure tech company based in New York. It provides big companies with a platform that helps them organize their data. Online streams of Coldplay's songs jumped 20 percent in the days after the video went viral, according to Luminate, an industry data and analytics company.
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