In a shocking flip of occasions, Gwyneth Paltrow has grow to be a “momentary spokesperson” for Astronomer within the wake of the viral Coldplay kiss-cam second involving the corporate’s former CEO and chief individuals officer.
On Friday night time, the corporate shared a shock parody video with the Shakespeare in Love actress the place she joked that she was “employed on a really momentary foundation to talk on behalf of the 300-plus workers at Astronomer.”
“Astronomer has gotten a number of questions over the previous few days, they usually needed me to reply the commonest ones,” Paltrow mentioned as textual content on-screen started typing out the query, “OMG! What the precise f—,” earlier than a cut up reduce panned to the Oscar winner as she answered a very reverse query.
“Sure, Astronomer is one of the best place to run Apace Airflow,” she answered. “We’ve been thrilled so many individuals have a newfound curiosity in information automation.”
She continued, “As for the opposite questions we’ve obtained,” as on-screen textual content typed out the query, “How is your social media crew holding—” earlier than Paltrow popped again into the body to answer one other separate query.
Curiosity in Astronomer has spiked prior to now week after the corporate’s CEO, Andy Byron, and chief individuals officer, Kristin Cabot, had been displayed on the big-screen throughout Coldplay’s Boston July 16 live performance cease. Once they realized they had been on digital camera for the kiss-cam phase, they each scattered out of body, which led the band’s frontman Chris Martin to quip, “Both they’re having an affair, or they’re simply very shy.”
It’s no coincidence that Paltrow was tapped as a “momentary spokesperson” for Astronomer, as Martin is her ex-husband. Within the wake of the viral second, Bryon and Cabot each resigned from their roles.
Because the scandal has continued to attract consideration towards Astronomer, the controversy additionally led to a surge in Coldplay’s streams. In accordance with information from Luminate sourced by Billboard, the seven-time Grammy award-winning group’s on-demand audio streams had been up by 25 % on Thursday. Within the previous 5 days earlier than the Boston live performance, Coldplay had 28.7 million streams