DANGEROUS GAME

Coldplay Catches World-Famous Soccer Star on Kiss Cam

The British band show little sign of giving up their Jumbotron antics after they made headlines earlier this month for all the wrong reasons.

Inter Miami CF player Lionel Messi loomed large over the stadium at Coldplay’s final U.S. show on Sunday night after the band’s “kiss cam” picked out the world-famous soccer star from the crowds. “Well Leo, my beautiful brother,” frontman Chris Martin sang. “Thanks for coming today to see our band play, the number one sports person of all time!” Messi was joined at the event by his wife, which is more than can be said for Astronomer CEO Andy Byron. In case you’d missed it—and if so, where have you been?—Byron made headlines earlier this month after being spotted canoodling with the company’s head of HR, Kristin Cabot, at a concert in Massachusetts. The tech executives are married—just not to each other. Byron has since resigned in disgrace from his post as head of the group, with the company issuing a statement stating that “our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability,” and that recently, “that standard was not met.” In an ironic twist, the company has since hired Martin’s former partner, Gwyneth Paltrow, as a crisis PR spokesperson to help manage some of the fallout.