Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin was seen giving out a friendly warning about the infamous 'kiss cam' to the audience at the band's concert in Madison, US, on July 19, days after it exposed the affair between Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and the company's HR Head, Kristin Cabot, during their Boston concert.
In a video which has now surfaced online, Martin can be heard addressing the crowd cheekily amid the Madison concert. "We'd like to say hello to some of you in the crowd," he began.
He went on to say, "Now what we are going to do now is we're going to use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen. So please, if you haven't done your makeup, do your makeup now," taking a dig at the viral affair exposé.
The crowd was seen bursting into a fit of laughter and cheered for the singer and the entire band as Martin resumed his performance.
What is the Coldplay-Astronomer CEO controversy?
For those unversed, Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and the company's Head of HR, Kristin Cabot, were caught cuddling during Coldplay's Boston concert recently. There affair was out in the open after they were captured in the jumbotron, or kiss cam, and their aghast reaction only gave their misdeed away.
The video of the two ducking and hiding their faces, while looking horrified, was shared by a Coldplay fan online, and it has garnered over 50 million views online, snowballing into a memefest.
Post the fiasco, Byron resigned from the company, while Kristin has maintained radio-silence. Byron's wife dropped his surname from her social media profiles and she even deactivated her Facebook account.
