July 17, 2025, shall be referred to as ColdplayGate.
On that day, a video surfaced of now-former Astronmer CEO Andy Byron and his co-worker Kristin Cabot being caught on the Kiss Cam at a Coldplay live performance in Massachusetts.
Their response seemingly gave the whole lot away, and the next days had been stuffed with reactions from throughout the web.
That ended up main each Cabot and Byron to resign from the corporate.
Now, on Friday evening, Astronomer dropped a brand new commercial. Nevertheless, in an attention-grabbing wrinkle, the spokesperson was Gwyneth Paltrow, the well-known actor and ex-wife of Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin.
“Thanks on your curiosity in Astronomer,” Paltrow mentioned to start the video. “I have been employed on a really short-term foundation to talk on behalf of the 300+ staff at Astronomer. Astronomer’s gotten plenty of questions over the previous couple of days they usually needed me to reply the most typical ones.”
Thanks on your curiosity in Astronomer. pic.twitter.com/WtxEegbAMY
— Astronomer (@astronomerio) July 25, 2025
The questions Paltrow answered weren’t those being typed on the display, which makes the video much more excellent from Astronomer.
As of Friday evening, the video had registered over 2.5 million views in simply 4 hours, so it is making waves throughout the web.
Martin was main the Kiss Cam efforts in the course of the present when Byron and Cabot had been placed on it. After, Martin mentioned, “Both they’re having an affair or they’re simply very shy,” adopted by Holy (expletive). I hope we didn’t do one thing unhealthy.”
The fallout from the video has been limitless, with corporations similar to Chipotle and Netflix becoming a member of in on the enjoyable with some responses.
Paltrow and Martin officially split in 2014, so it has been over a decade.
However, no person noticed Astronomer hiring Paltrow to reply questions in regards to the firm (and never the state of affairs).
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