Kristin Cabot to address Coldpay kiss-cam scandal at $875 ticketed event
Kristin Cabot, who lost her job as a result of being captured on the kiss-cam with her boss at a Coldplay concert, is set to address the scandal at a crisis PR conference.
At the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, last summer, Coldplay’s camera turned its attention to the crowd and captured Cabot, Astronomer’s head of human relations, and the company’s then-CEO Andy Byron in an embrace.
Due to their shocked reaction upon being put on the big screen, the video clip quickly went viral across every social media platform, racking up hundreds of millions of views and making them instantly famous for all the wrong reasons.
While they were both married at the time of the concert, it later surfaced that both Cabot and Byron had split up from their respective partners prior to the show. Nevertheless, they both resigned from Astronomer.
Now, Cabot is set to open up about the fiasco, and if you’d like to hear her thoughts on the experience, it will cost you between $750 and $875.
Cabot is set to be a keynote speaker at the PR Week US Crisis Comms Conference, which will take place in Washington, DC, on April 16th, 2026. At the one-day event, Cabot will lead the 30-minute ‘Taking Back the Narrative’ discussion alongside crisis PR specialist Dini von Mueffling.
PR Week said of the upcoming event, “While attending a Coldplay concert in July and unwittingly appearing on the kiss-cam for a few seconds, Kristin Cabot’s life blew up in an instant.”
Their description continued, “Online harassment, constant death threats, and 300 billion views to date: a never-ending media frenzy. From the outside, it was an amusing, if unflattering meme; but for her, everything changed that day.”
In December, Cabot addressed the scandal for the first time, admitting to the New York Times, “I made a bad decision and had a couple of High Noons and danced and acted inappropriately with my boss. And it’s not nothing. And I took accountability and I gave up my career for that. That’s the price I chose to pay.”
Her estranged husband, Andrew Cabot, whom she had amicably separated before the concert, was also in attendance at the Coldplay show, which she said was why she reacted in the manner she did to being on the screen, stating, “We were in the middle of an incredibly — and amazingly — amicable separation. I was worried I would embarrass him. He’s an amazing guy and does not deserve that.”
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