{"id":26327,"date":"2025-07-26T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26327\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:04:07","slug":"after-coldplay-kisscam-scandal-astronomer-hires-gwyneth-paltrow-as-very-temporary-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26327\/","title":{"rendered":"After Coldplay KissCam scandal, Astronomer hires Gwyneth Paltrow as \u2018very temporary\u2019 spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n

Gwyneth Paltrow was married to Coldplay\u2019s frontman Chris Martin for 13 years.Jordan Strauss\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Astronomer \u2013 the company whose CEO resigned after being caught on a KissCam at a Coldplay rock concert embracing a woman who was not his wife \u2013 is trying to move on from the drama with someone who knows the band pretty well.<\/p>\n

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who was married to Coldplay\u2019s frontman Chris Martin for 13 years, announced Friday on X that she has been hired by Astronomer as a spokesperson.<\/p>\n

Astronomer, a tech company based in New York, found itself in an uncomfortable spotlight when two of its executives were caught on camera<\/a> in an intimate embrace at a Coldplay concert \u2013 a moment that was then flashed on a giant screen in the stadium.<\/p>\n

CEO Andy Byron and human resource executive Kristin Cabot were caught by surprise when Martin asked the cameras to scan the crowd during a concert earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy,\u201d Martin joked when the couple appeared on screen and quickly tried to hide their faces.<\/p>\n

The viral Coldplay kiss-cam video shows digital sleuthing can go too far<\/a><\/p>\n

After viral Coldplay kiss-cam video, advice for workers on when private relationships become your employer\u2019s concern<\/a><\/p>\n

In a short video, the \u201cShakespeare in Love\u201d and \u201cIron Man\u201d star said she had been hired as a \u201cvery temporary\u201d spokesperson for Astronomer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAstronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days and they wanted me to answer the most common ones,\u201d Paltrow said, smiling and deftly avoiding mention of the KissCam fuss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been thrilled that so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation,\u201d she said. \u201cWe will now be returning to what we do best \u2013 delivering game-changing results for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

When footage from the KissCam first spread online, it wasn\u2019t immediately clear who the couple were. Soon after the company identified the pair, and Byron resigned followed by Cabot<\/a>. The video clip resulted in a steady stream of memes, parody videos and screenshots of the pair\u2019s shocked faces filling social media feeds.<\/p>\n

Online streams of Coldplay\u2019s songs jumped 20% in the days after the video went viral, according to Luminate, an industry data and analytics company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Gwyneth Paltrow was married to Coldplay\u2019s frontman Chris Martin for 13 years.Jordan Strauss\/The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,75,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-26327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}