{"id":12278,"date":"2025-07-19T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/strange-24-hours-irelands-andy-byron-namesake-of-coldplay-viral-ceo-says-he-had-to-buy-his-wife-flowers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:26:17","slug":"strange-24-hours-irelands-andy-byron-namesake-of-coldplay-viral-ceo-says-he-had-to-buy-his-wife-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/strange-24-hours-irelands-andy-byron-namesake-of-coldplay-viral-ceo-says-he-had-to-buy-his-wife-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Strange 24 hours’: Ireland’s Andy Byron, namesake of Coldplay viral CEO, says he had to buy his wife flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'StrangeIreland's Andy Byron (left) spent a strange 24 hours because of his namesake's Coldplay viral video in the US. Ireland's Andy Byron who had to change his LinkedIn bio to 'NOT THE GUY FROM THE COLDPLAY GIG' said he had a strange 24 hours as people from all over the world flocked to his LinkedIn profile to slam him after Astronomer CEO (now former) Andy Byron was caught in the embrace of the company's chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert in Boston. When people discovered Ireland's Andy Byron on LinkedIn, Astronomer's Andy Byron already deactivated his LinkedIn profile, and his namesake had to absorb all the hatred. Ireland's Any Byron told The Sun said he started receiving messages from strangers asking him casually on LinkedIn whether he enjoyed the Coldplay concert. \u201cThen I started getting strangers from LinkedIn messaging \u2018saying you got caught out bad\u2019 and how ashamed I should be – a lot of people on a moral high horse," he said. Astronomer CEO 'Vanishes' From LinkedIn Amid 'Affair' Scandal After Coldplay Gig Video Goes Viral\u201cThe actual Andy took his LinkedIn page down so everyone started messaging me – it got so bad that I had to turn all my notifications off.\u201dIreland's Andy Byron said he had to remove his creative director job title from his LinkedIn so that people do not make the mistake. \u201cIt made a good excuse to buy her flowers," Andy told, asserting that he was not cheating on his wife.He explained how he went on to cash in on the traction that he got and spoke about himself. \u201cNo, this isn\u2019t me. I wouldn\u2019t be caught dead at a Coldplay concert… I\u2019m the Andy Byron who makes videos for big screens, not the one who gets caught on them. If you want to make video content that goes viral for the right reasons, let\u2019s connect [laughing emoji]\u201d he wrote a post that reached 10,000 likes on LinkedIn. \u201cIt\u2019s a coincidence that turned into great marketing for me. One guy from the US with the same name goes viral and I get a load of followers for my business. It\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If my engagements are like this, I can\u2019t imagine what it must be like for them, I\u2019m sure him and the woman he\u2019s with are going through hell. If they had just played it off [the kiss cam], I\u2019m sure they would have been fine. But I do have empathy for the families involved," the namesake added. Both CEO Byron and HR chief Kristin Cabot were put on leave and and Astronomer cofounder and chief product officer Pete DeJoy is serving as the interim CEO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ireland's Andy Byron (left) spent a strange 24 hours because of his namesake's Coldplay viral video in the US. Ireland's Andy Byron who had to change his LinkedIn bio to 'NOT THE GUY FROM THE COLDPLAY GIG' said he had a strange 24 hours as people from all over the world flocked to his LinkedIn profile to slam him after Astronomer CEO (now former) Andy Byron was caught in the embrace of the company's chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert in Boston. When people discovered Ireland's Andy Byron on LinkedIn, Astronomer's Andy Byron already deactivated his LinkedIn profile, and his namesake had to absorb all the hatred. Ireland's Any Byron told The Sun said he started receiving messages from strangers asking him casually on LinkedIn whether he enjoyed the Coldplay concert. \u201cThen I started getting strangers from LinkedIn messaging \u2018saying you got caught out bad\u2019 and how ashamed I should be – a lot of people on a moral high horse,..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12281,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions\/12281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skybeaconnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}