‘They’re having an affair’: Kiss-cam gal cashes in on her infamy, speaks at high-priced conference
Under the category of making lemonade out of lemons, Kristin Cabot, the woman famously found in the arms of her boss-not-husband on a kiss-cam image at a July Coldplay concert is scheduled to speak at a D.C. communications conference this spring.
The video of happy couple appearing on the big screen went viral and was fodder for everyone from professional online mockers to sermonizing pastors. Cabot had attended the Boston concert with some friends, including her boss, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, who soon resigned in disgrace.
“Oh, look at these two,” the band’s lead singer Chris Martin joked to the crowd. “All right, c’mon, you’re OK. Oh, what? Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”
Upon seeing themselves on the screen, Byron ducked behind a stadium seat, while Cabot, who was married with children, simply turned her back to the camera.
OOPS! #Coldplay‘s #kisscam caught an Astronomer CEO and the company’s HR chief embracing mid-concert https://t.co/dDWLMkIwzs pic.twitter.com/9c7cGsi1xl
— FOX 11 Los Angeles (@FOXLA) July 17, 2025
Now, as Collin Rugg pointed out on X, Cabot is “cashing in” on the experienced as a “keynote speaker” at PR Week’s Crisis Comms Conference in Washington, D.C., in April. The event is called: “Kristin Cabot: Taking Back The Narrative” and tickets cost $875 per person, according to the website.
At the time of incident, the internet exploded with spoofs and parodies of a most public embarrassment.
NEW: The woman who went viral on the Coldplay kiss cam is “cashing in” on her fame, will be a keynote speaker at a $875 per person event in Washington, D.C.
Kristin Cabot and her then-boss, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, went viral last July at a Coldplay concert.
She is now set to… pic.twitter.com/PqprcKdihf
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 4, 2026
One wag commented on X: “I wouldn’t attend this event even if you PAID me $875.”
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