“Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy,” frontman Chris Martin could be heard saying as the audience cackled.
“I hope we didn’t do something bad,” the crooner later added when the pair vanished from the scene.
After Cabot was spotted turning her back to the camera and Byron ducked down out of view, the jumbotron moved on to another pair of fans dressed up in banana costumes.
Neither Byron nor Cabot, who both have families of their own, has spoken out yet about the sordid scandal.
Soon after the initial clip started exploding online, internet sleuths quickly determined that Byron appeared to be married to Megan Kerrigan Byron, while Cabot had recently divorced her husband, Kenneth Thornby.
“I had no idea who the couple was. Just thought I caught an interesting reaction to the kiss cam and decided to post it,” Grace Springer, who filmed the initial clip, told the US Sun in the wake of the fallout.
“A part of me feels bad for turning these people’s lives upside down, but, play stupid games … win stupid prizes,” she added.
“I hope their partners can heal from this and get a second chance at the happiness they deserve with their future still in front of them.”