Of all the ways to be caught cheating on your wife, I’d be willing to bet that being found out by Chris Martin’s roving jumbotron must have been low on Astronomer CEO Andy Byron’s bingo card as he entered his Amex details (or drained the company’s expenses budget) for a night of earnest but enjoyable middle-of-the-road soft rock, yet here we are.
It’s hard not to feel some semblance of sympathy for the fallout that his – and Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot’s – very public transgression has engendered. The55,000 people at Boston’s Gillette Stadium may have been the first witnesses to their awkward and very public decoupling – the clunky switch from romantic embrace to shameful, face-saving disowning of each other right there in the kiss cam’s glare, yet the couple – and by proxy their respective partners, and shared employer – are now a firm part of 24-hour wall-to-wall public discourse.
