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<\/p>\nGwyneth Paltrow has appeared in a hilarious cameo speaking on behalf of Astronomer, with the company caught in a PR disaster after its CEO and his alleged mistress was busted cosying up at a Coldplay concert.<\/p>\n
Astronomer chief Andy Byron had his arms wrapped around the chest of fellow colleague Kristin Cabot at the British band’s tour in Boston, Massachusetts on July 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The alleged tryst was filmed by Coldplay fan Grace Springer and shared to TikTok where it has been seen close to 70 million times, with many news stories already written.<\/p>\n
Chris Martin, who is Paltrow’s ex-husband and father to her two children, joked to the crowd that the couple were “either having an affair or just very shy” as thousands of other concert-goers laughed and cheered.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Astronomer published a video to their LinkedIn page in which Paltrow appeared as a ”temporary spokesperson” to answer some questions, marking a surprise PR move by the company as it continues to become entangled in a media storm.<\/p>\n
The actress, wearing a blue shirt, started her cameo by saying: ”Thank you for your interest in Astronomer. Hi, I’m Gwyneth Paltrow,” as corporate music blissfully played in the background.<\/p>\n
”I’ve been hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 300 plus employees at Astronomer.<\/p>\n
”Astronomer has got a lot of questions in the last few days, and they wanted me to answer the most common ones.”<\/p>\n
The first question which appeared on the screen read: ”Q: OMG! What the actual f**k” the text begins, before it abruptly cuts off with Paltrow reappearing.<\/p>\n
Paltrow then replies: ”Yes! Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow.”<\/p>\n
”We’ve been thrilled to see so many people suddenly interested in data workflow automation,” she continues applying light sarcasm.<\/p>\n
”As for the other questions we’ve received\u2026”<\/p>\n
A second question then appears on the screen: ”How is your social media team holding..”<\/p>\n
Paltrow responds: ”Yes! There is still space available at our Beyond Analytics event this September!<\/p>\n
”And now, we’ll return to doing what we do best… delivering game-changing results for our customers. Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.”<\/p>\n
The post has garnered the attention of hundreds of LinkedIn users who headed to the comments to share their support and applaud the ”boss move” by Astronomer’s media team.<\/p>\n
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”Absolutely brilliant, Leo Zheng and team – just brilliant,” one LinkedIn user commented.<\/p>\n
”Phenomenal work, Leo Zheng,” wrote another.<\/p>\n
”Leo Zheng: mic drop,” a third wrote.<\/p>\n
”A clever way to reach your audience – unexpected, but memorable,” a user critiqued the video. ”Though, to be honest, the question and answer felt like they were on entirely different airflows.”<\/p>\n
The company previously said on LinkedIn that Mr Byron is under formal investigation over his alleged cheating scandal involving Astronomer’s chief human resources officer.<\/p>\n
“Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability,” it said.<\/p>\n
“The Board of Directors has initiated a formal investigation into this matter and we will have additional details to share very shortly.”<\/p>\n
Both Byron and Cabot have quit their jobs at the tech company following the scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gwyneth Paltrow has appeared in a hilarious cameo speaking on behalf of Astronomer, with the company caught in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1765,64,63,447,4191,134,23914],"class_list":{"0":"post-24101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-astronomer","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-coldplay-concert","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-gweneth-paltrow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}