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Business? Re Coldplay Cam Last Night

Happy2BHere — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:17:25 GMT

Just wondering about something to do with business ethics.

There are many sites tonight showing videos of a "Kiss Cam" at a Coldplay concert in Boston last night. It had been scanning the crowd and had zoomed in on a VERY lovey dovey couple who had been happily linked up smiling with their arms wrapped around each other swaying to the music up until the cam settled on them.

They immediately tried to hide their faces and get away from each other while still on the cam. The woman threw her hands up in front of her face and turned around and the man ducked way down below the row. The video is pretty funny with their reactions going from LOVE to "OH ****" in a second.

Frontman Chris Martin chided them by saying "Look at those two, either they're having an affair or they're just very shy" while everyone laughed.

Apparently the couple left the venue ASAP. But of course SM identified them quickly.

Turns out the guy is a bigtime CEO and the lady is the Chief Human Resource Officer for the same company.

Both are married to other people, and I do feel for their current spouses having to endure SM today.

But my curiosity is if anything will happen to the CEO or HRO job-wise? Will the company (board) just look the other way with all the bad press? In the old days fraternization would have been frowned upon, but is that only for the "little people" these days?

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Isobel Archer — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:20:59 GMT

Gotta love it. While the CEO did apologize to his wife etc., he also complained about a "private moment becoming public without his consent."

Seriously?

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TheMemphisVette — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:34:27 GMT

cracked me up!

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Wsmom — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:48:06 GMT

Back in '79 I was in LV at a Kenny Rogers show. Before the show they announced People magazine was there taking photos for the magazine and anybody who was there with somebody they shouldn't be needed to move to the back rows. Now with those kiss cams and socia media there is no escape.

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TheMemphisVette — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:53:13 GMT

so dang funny. this guy is blaming his private moment in a public place being exposed.....lol

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Happy2BHere — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:28:39 GMT

Wah! What a crybaby! MOO he made it even worse!

"What was supposed to be a night of music and joy" *joy with another woman, that is

"Private moment became public without my consent" like as @TheMemphisVette says it was a private moment in a public place. Guess he's never been to even a sporting event with a kiss cam before. When you're out in public, you can be seen!

It will be interesting to see how it shakes out at the company level. I saw a comment on another board, something like - "Dipping in the HR pool results in a staff infection". LOL.

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ellaphant — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:30:03 GMT

@TheMemphisVette wrote:
so dang funny. this guy is blaming his private moment in a public place being exposed.....lol

Oh boy, talk about self centered and doesn't get it. The issue is not social media. The issue is you are a CHEAT.

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TheMemphisVette — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:31:41 GMT

and this is a CEO

hahahaha

big titles and big salaries do not equal brain usage

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shoesnbags — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:34:44 GMT

@Wsmom wrote:
Back in '79 I was in LV at a Kenny Rogers show. Before the show they announced People magazine was there taking photos for the magazine and anybody who was there with somebody they shouldn't be needed to move to the back rows. Now with those kiss cams and socia media there is no escape.

@Wsmom So did anybody get up and move? LOL

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CoffeeNut — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:58:47 GMT

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Mz iMac — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:55:23 GMT

Hubby & wify both nationally humiliated on air & in print.

If I were wify, there would be NO discussion other than to say GET OUT (with a few choice words between GET & OUT). Then I would change the locks, hire a female attorney, take him to the cleaners & leave him w/nothing, rent the finest boy toy gigolo $$$$ can buy, call TMZ paparazzi & send ex the bill.

But the first thing I would do is light a menthol or maybe a Cuban..........

Have a glass of margarita while watching it all burn.

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redhead handbag queen — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:56:42 GMT

@CoffeeNut wrote:

Well, I'd say it was a perfect scenerio, since he was CEO of the company he help founded called "Astronomer"

The stars were surely aligned that night

...and it could cost him half of his 1 billion $$$'s. Grandma was right, you really can't fix stupid.

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Wsmom — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:58:34 GMT

LOL, @shoesnbags , I honestly don't remember

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roeroe1005 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:07:33 GMT

Well, that certainly did not end well ... for them ...

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Susan Louise — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:08:23 GMT

Karma...

Started at the FA and completed the circle at the FO.

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Happy2BHere — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:11:19 GMT

@Mz iMac ITA!

And LOL at how they went from standing like in your picture to this in a second - dive dive dive! Too late though...

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We rescue cats — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:17:41 GMT

Hope the hugs and cuddles were worth it . . . cuz I bet he's gonna pay for them.

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Happy2BHere — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:21:33 GMT

I love this comment from a guy commenting on this saying that he would never have an affair because "I can only disappoint one woman at a time"

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Goldengate8361 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 04:04:06 GMT

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Isobel Archer — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:48:19 GMT

Maybe his marriage should end (she is divorced). Not judging that aspect. It's certainly true that marriages fail and people fall for someone else.

The problem here is that he is apparently angry that he was caught on camera and thus embarrassed and believes he is some sort of victim - when the real victims are his kids (who did not ask for this and who did not cause his marriage to fail). It seems his wife didn't know he was dating someone else - whether she did or not, she clearly knows now.

The whole thing is very sad.