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HR executive Kristin Cabot took swipes at Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds over the Coldplay Kiss Cam scandal.
Cabot insisted that Hollywood should have gotten out of the game instead of releasing an ad for the company he worked for.
“I was very disappointed by that,” Cabot explained during an interview on “The Oprah Podcast.” “I felt like Gwyneth, a company person [Goop] it is based on or built on promoting the welfare of women and women… I don’t know why he feels the need to throw gas on the fire and get involved in all this.”
“It just felt hypocritical to me and unnecessary,” he added.
HR EXEC INVOLVED IN COLDPLAY KISS CAM SCANDAL SAYS DEATH BREAKS LEFT CHILDREN FEARING FOR THEIR LIVES
Former HR director Kristin Cabot called out Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds for their hilarious Coldplay Kiss Cam ad. (Getty Images, @calebu2/TMX)
Paltrow appeared in an advertisement for The Astronomer – the company that employed Cabot until her affair with then-married CEO Andy Byron was made public at a disastrous Coldplay concert.
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Cabot also disputed Reynolds’ part in the ad, mocking the viral moment.
“I don’t want to let Ryan Reynolds go either,” he said. “He produced the ad, he created it, and his wife just got something like this a year ago.”
“I find it really amazing that he thought this was a good way to get paid,” Cabot added.
Ryan Reynolds is married to Blake Lively. (NBC)
Winfrey said she called Paltrow to ask her about the ad.
“He said he was told that you and Andy Byron had signed on for that ad, and he said he wouldn’t have done it if he hadn’t heard that you had signed on to the show,” Winfrey said, explaining that Paltrow had given permission to share the information.
“You told me that too,” replied Cabot.
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Gwyneth Paltrow starred in an ad released by The Astronomer a minute after the Coldplay Kiss Cam. (Steven Ferdman)
Cabot admitted that the commercial just added fuel to the fire.
“It did everything at the time and, in the days or weeks that followed, it made everything harder,” he said. “It made it very difficult for my kids as well. I think when celebrities get involved like that … they’re young, like I said, they know who you are. They know, and they just added to it in a way that wasn’t necessary. But people have their needs and I can’t guess what those are.”
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Coldplay host Chris Martin asked if the couple were dating as they caught themselves on Kiss Cam. (@calebu2/TMX)
In her interview, Cabot opened up about the abuse she endured after her video with her manager at the time. Astronaut Andy Byronenjoying a romantic moment at a Coldplay concert became popular in 2025.
Chris Martin, the band’s frontman, and much of the internet thought the two were caught in the act, and the story spread like wildfire.
Chris Martin’s reaction to Kristin Cabot walking away from Andy Byron on kiss cam caused a serious internet firestorm. (Samir Hussein/WireImage)
Despite worldwide speculation about an affair, Cabot has maintained that she was separated from her husband at the time and that she was aware of her “very intimate relationship” with Byron.
He has been told many times that the situation will pass but he said that it is interfering with his work and his life.
Cabot revealed that the internet rant not only cost him his job, it left his young children in fear for his life amid death threats and public harassment. She told Winfrey that her children became worried they might lose her after overhearing a conversation about online death threats.
“They were very scared,” he explained.
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