Kristin Cabot’s estranged husband is addressing their divorce within the wake of her viral kiss cam second with former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron throughout a Coldplay live performance.
A spokesperson for Andrew Cabot informed Folks in a press release on Monday, September 8, that Kristin and Andrew “had been privately and amicably separated a number of weeks earlier than the Coldplay live performance.”
The spokesperson added that the pair’s “resolution to divorce was already underway previous to that night. Now that the divorce submitting is public, Andrew hopes this gives respectful closure to hypothesis and permits his household the privateness they’ve at all times valued.”
Andrew is the CEO of Privateer Rum, a New England distillery, and has two kids from a previous marriage, in accordance with Folks. He and Kristin wouldn’t have kids collectively. Kristin was beforehand married to Kenneth Thornby, whom she divorced in 2022. The exes reportedly share a baby.
Kristin filed for divorce in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on August 13, per court docket paperwork obtained by The Day by day Mail on September 6. At that time, neither she nor Andrew had publicly addressed their separation. (Us Weekly has reached out for remark.)
Kristin, previously Chief Folks Officer at Astronomer, made headlines when she and her then-boss, Byron, had been caught on a jumbotron embracing as they watched Coldplay’s July 16 present at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. Because the digital camera panned over to Kristin and Byron, she turned and shielded her face whereas he dropped to the bottom to cover.
Cabot and Byron on Coldplay’s kiss cam in July 2025. @calebu2/TMX
“Whoa, have a look at these two. All proper, come on. You’re OK,” Coldplay frontman Chris Martin joked on the time. “Both they’re having an affair or they’re simply very shy. I’m not fairly positive what to do.”
Martin, 48, informed the gang, “I hope we didn’t do one thing dangerous.”
Byron and Kristin had labored collectively at Astronomer, a tech firm, since November 2024. After their kiss cam footage unfold on-line, Byron’s spouse, Megan Kerrigan Byron, seemingly eliminated his surname from her Fb profile. Byron quickly resigned from his job.
“Astronomer is dedicated to the values and tradition which have guided us since our founding,” an organization spokesperson informed Us in a July 19 assertion. “Our leaders are anticipated to set the usual in each conduct and accountability, and not too long ago, that commonplace was not met. Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Administrators has accepted.”
On July 24, Us confirmed that Kristin had left her place as properly.
“Kristin Cabot is not with Astronomer,” a spokesperson informed us on the time. “She has resigned.”
Byron had personally introduced Cabot’s hiring the earlier November, saying, “Kristin’s distinctive management and deep experience in expertise administration, worker engagement and scaling individuals methods will probably be important as we proceed our speedy trajectory.”
For her half, Kristin mentioned she’d been “energized in my conversations with Andy and the Astronomer management group concerning the alternatives that exist right here.”
