 "After Coldplay kiss cam catches Astronomer CEO & CPO Kristin Cabot's affair, Andy Byron's wife Megan Kerrigan Byron drops surname, deletes Facebook page")
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron grabbed eyeballs since the Coldplay debacle as he was caught in Kiss Cam having a private moment on Wednesday (16 July) with the company’s chief human resources officer, Kristin Cabot, in Boston. This incident took the social media by storm and soon after that Andy Byron’s wife Megan Kerrigan Byron, who is a well-known teacher, dropped “Byron” from her surname on various online profiles and deleted her Facebook page as per Page Six.
“Andy Byron‘s wife has now dropped her married name on Facebook and left comments open on her Facebook! What a class act! Go Megan. Get that divorce lawyer and get the money," wrote the user called Mrs SpaceX on X.
During the concert, Coldplay’s lead singer joked about the moment and said, “Oh look at these two… either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy."
After the incident, Andy apologized in a viral statement to his wife, family, and colleagues, which read, “You deserve better from me as a partner, as a father, and as a leader.”
A former colleague of Byron shared that incident has garnered angry reactions from ex-employees. The text groups and chains of former employees are like… everybody’s laughing their ass off and enjoying the hell out of what happened and him getting exposed,” he told The New York Post.
He branded Bryon a “toxic boss” and said “he got what he deserved.”