Oh, my goodness. I do so love the way the other side plays favorites.
Take the now infamous Coldplay cuddles.
Let’s just say some ardently conservative, well-heeled executive had been caught on the kiss-cam at, oh, a John Rich or Kid Rock concert, cuddling to the tunes with his attractive executive assistant, HR director, or someone under what we military types call his ‘chain of command.’ Both of them married, but not to each other, with both of them gasping in horror at their mugs on the venue’s big screen, dropping to the deck in a panicked scramble as if it had suddenly turned into an active shooter situation.
Hilarity would naturally ensue, but the Left would also waste no time publicly dubbing said female a victim of the white executive’s misogynistic supremacy, a husband-stealing tramp, and as the employee of someone who openly espoused and supported conservative principles, whatever misfortune befell her thanks to this indiscretion, she had it and more coming to her for betraying #wymmins in general.
Our imaginary right-wing floozy wouldn’t stand a chance in hell of ever seeing another high-profile job again if they could help it. She’d be lucky to score a gig at Target and avoid being harassed by rabid AWFLs who recognised her in the pet section. Because AWFLs never forget a face.
That’s not how it works on the Left.
The Coldplay kiss-cam tawdry lady rates a reputation rehabilitation and has been treated unfairly, says no less an expert on the subject than the Old Gray Lady.
They are going to do their best to burnish the mess in their own inimitable fashion. Isn’t that sweet?
RITUAL SHAMING
— tree hugging sister 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) December 19, 2025
Look at the glamour shot – gracious goodness.
And doesn’t she look like a softer, less vile Jennifer Welch? I wonder if that had anything to do with it?
In any event, they give it a go.
The most interesting thing right at the start of the article, and something that maybe she should have made public right off the bat?
That she was separated and ‘negotiating her divorce.’ That would have mitigated some of the damage for sure.
Kristin Cabot has come to believe that her silence no longer serves her. It made sense in the beginning, after she appeared on the Jumbotron, aghast, in the arms of her boss at a Coldplay concert on July 16, 2025, a moment that caused an international furor. The original TikTok received 100 million views within days. Cabot retreated, trying to make things right with the people who mattered most: her two teenage kids; her employer, the tech company Astronomer; and her second husband, Andrew Cabot, from whom she was separated and negotiating a divorce settlement. In the initial phase, all she could think was: Oh my God, I hurt people. I hurt good people.
It turns out most of the panic was being caught canoodling with the boss, which, in any office situation, is still supposed to be strictly verboten, and yeah – that was really stupid.
The NYT certainly does up the pensive shots of Cabot gazing out the window, walking in the snow.
Not than anyone else noticed the obvious, rote, by-the-book effort…not much anyway.
From yesterday’s profile of the Coldplay kiss cam chick: (1) sweater, looking out a window (2) defiantly walking in a field.
I swear to god this stuff is so easy. https://t.co/vSCYkScajs pic.twitter.com/wXzsSPoq2g
— Jarvis (@jarvis_best) December 19, 2025
And the kicker of the whole interview is that none of this was her fault. Worse, she’d hired a ‘communications expert’ to develop talking points before the Times reporter even got to the house, and this was the best the expert could come up with?
…The two of us started the day in the kitchen. Cabot, her hair twisted up in a bun, was nervous, referring to bullet points as she unspooled her tale. But by evening, she was tucked into the couch, her large Bernedoodle, Burt Reynolds, as much in her lap as he could manage to be. She was not in a sexual relationship with her boss, she said. Before that night, they had never even kissed.
“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,” she said. “I want my kids to know that you can make mistakes, and you can really screw up. But you don’t have to be threatened to be killed for them.”
And OMG – the guy who was still her husband was in the stadium?
…The seats were on a V.I.P. balcony offering a sweeping view of the stage. Cabot remembers that the setting felt dark and private. She and Byron each had a couple of tequila cocktails, and as the concert went on they began to look like a couple. She made a point of saying that night was the first and only time they kissed. Byron was dancing behind Cabot when she took his hands and wrapped his arms around her.
When Cabot saw her own image, and his, on the Jumbotron, it was like “someone flipped a switch,” she said. “I’ll never be able to explain it in any articulate or intelligent way,” she said. What an instant before felt like “joy, joy, joy” turned to terror. Cabot’s hands flew to her face, and she whirled out of Byron’s arms. Byron ducked.
At that moment, she had two thoughts. First: Andrew Cabot was somewhere in the dark stadium and she did not want to humiliate him.
And: “Andy’s my boss.”
HOLY SCHAMOLY
That’s enough excruciating information for me. I mean, girlfriend got busted like a bad dog, has been blaming the booze and ‘giddy good time, just wanna wear something cute’ so far and she paid someone to help her write this so ling after everyone’s forgotten about it?
I guess there are more gems buried in the article, mostly having to do with everyone only being mean because ‘she’s a woman.’
NEW: Coldplay kisscam HR boss Kristin Cabot appears to partially blame High Noon for the viral video, says people were extra hard on her because she’s a woman.
Cabot is speaking out for the first time since being caught on the kisscam with married Astronomer CEO Andy Byron.… pic.twitter.com/H7VQcAEfzL
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 18, 2025
…“I’m not some celebrity, I’m just a mom from New Hampshire. Even if I did have an affair, it’s not anybody’s business,” she told The Times.
“It has been like a scarlet letter; people erased everything I’d accomplished in my life and achieved in my career. This can’t be the final word.”
Cabot says she had a “big happy crush” and the two told each other they split from their spouses.
“We were just dancing, I’d had a few High Noons (vodka seltzers). Andy was standing behind me and we were dancing and I grabbed him.”
“I didn’t hear the announcement that the jumbotron was coming, so suddenly I’m just seeing us on screen.”
Cabot also says she got the bulk of the abuse because she is a woman.
“I think as a woman, as women always do, I took the bulk of the abuse. People would say things like I was a ‘gold-digger.’”
Cabot also said she was upset that no one from Coldplay’s team reached out to help “turn down the heat” that “Martin had helped manufacture.”
Cabot is highly irked that the band Coldplay hasn’t made this right for her.
Somehow, her being lit and being busy canoodling with her boss, so she missed the Jumbotron warning is Coldplay’s fault.
The entitlement here is off the charts.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 18, 2025
How AWFL.
WOWSAHS
That line alone calls for another ‘pensively gazing out the window’ photograph to make sure we all know this affects Cabot deeply.
It’s quite obvious this woman wants another big gig. She probably also needs one as she is now self-supporting, and I get it. What I don’t get is why one resurrects such an awkward, miserable, basically inexcusable moment in one’s life in a splash article that’s sure to go viral yet again, particularly when the entire piece is one big whine that it happened to you.
No, girlfriend. You two did it.
Coldplay kiss cam woman poses for The New York Times, if you know any single married men pic.twitter.com/hfFX9szfNE
— TaraBull (@TaraBull) December 19, 2025
People, being humans of varying degrees of decency these days with access to social media, are going to either howl with laughter at the sight of the two of you scrambling, which most did, because impossibly awkward situations are natural fodder for such reactions and ridicule.
And yeah, sadly. The whackjobs are also going to be out of control with their spew. It’s too bad.
But this isn’t anyone but her and him, however she got there and whatever the excuse.
I was really trying to understand her perspective until she blamed Coldplay.
Girl, you got tipsy and handsy with a married man at a company party. I’m sorry you were going through a divorce, and I can only imagine how sad and lonely that would feel, but own your own mess. https://t.co/hB9BqzYUpp
— Jennifer Greenberg 🕊️ (@JennMGreenberg) December 18, 2025
At least she has nice pictures now and doesn’t look too much like Jennifer Welch to scare off potential employers.
I think I wouldn’t have done this interview, but then…that’s me. I don’t photograph real well.
