BOSTON (AP) 鈥 Astronomer 鈥 the company whose CEO resigned after being caught on a KissCam at a Coldplay rock concert embracing a woman who was not his wife 鈥 is trying to move on from the drama with someone who knows the band pretty well.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who was married to Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin for 13 years, announced Friday on X that she has been hired by Astronomer as a spokesperson.
Astronomer, a tech company based in New York, found itself in an uncomfortable spotlight when two of its executives were caught on camera in an intimate embrace at a Coldplay concert 鈥 a moment that was then flashed on a giant screen in the stadium.
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.
鈥淓ither they鈥檙e having an affair or they鈥檙e just very shy,鈥 Martin joked when the couple appeared on screen and quickly tried to hide their faces.
In a short video, the 鈥淪hakespeare in Love鈥 and 鈥淚ronman鈥 star said she had been hired as a 鈥渧ery temporary鈥 spokesperson for Astronomer.
鈥淎stronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days and they wanted me to answer the most common ones,鈥 Paltrow said, smiling and deftly avoiding mention of the KissCam fuss.
鈥淲e've been thrilled that so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation,鈥 she said. 鈥淲e will now be returning to what we do best 鈥 delivering game-changing results for our customers.鈥
When footage from the KissCam first spread online, it wasn鈥檛 immediately clear who the couple were. Soon after the company identified the pair, and Byron resigned . The video clip resulted in a steady stream of memes, parody videos and screenshots of the pair鈥檚 shocked faces filling social media feeds.
Online streams of Coldplay鈥檚 songs jumped 20% in the days after the video went viral, according to Luminate, an industry data and analytics company.