HR executive Kristin Cabot took a swipe at Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds over the Coldplay Kiss Cam scandal.

Cabot insisted Hollywood should have stayed out of the drama instead of releasing an ad for the company she used to work for.

“That was really disappointing to me,” Cabot explained during a sit-down interview for “The Oprah Podcast.” “I felt like Gwyneth, someone whose company [Goop] is founded on or framed around uplifting women and women’s well-being… I don’t know why she felt she needed to throw gas on the fire and get involved in all of this.”

“It just felt really hypocritical to me and unnecessary,” she added.

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Former Astronomer HR executive Kristin Cabot called out Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds over their ad mocking the viral Coldplay Kiss Cam moment. (Getty Images, @calebu2/TMX)

Paltrow appeared in an ad for Astronomer — the company who employed Cabot until her relationship with married then-CEO Andy Byron was made public at the fateful Coldplay concert.

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Cabot also took issue with Reynolds’ part in the ad, which mocked the viral moment.

“I don’t wanna let Ryan Reynolds off the hook either,” she said. “He produced the ad, he created it, and his wife has just gone through something really similar over the last year.”

“I find it really kind of astounding that he thought this was a great way to lead,” Cabot added.

Ryan Reynolds is married to Blake Lively. (NBC)

Winfrey said she called Paltrow to ask her about the ad.

“She said that she was told that you and Andy Byron had signed off on that commercial, and she said she wouldn’t have done it if she hadn’t heard that you had signed off on the commercial,” Winfrey said, explaining Paltrow had given permission to share the information.

“She communicated that to me as well,” Cabot replied.

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Gwyneth Paltrow starred in an ad released by Astronomer after the Coldplay Kiss Cam moment. (Steven Ferdman)

Cabot agreed that the commercial just added fuel to the fire.

“It made everything in that moment and, for ensuing days or weeks, it made everything harder,” she said. “It made it a lot harder for my kids too. I think when a celebrity gets involved like that … they’re teenagers, like I said, they know who she is. They know, and it just added to it in a way that was so unnecessary. But people have their own needs and I can’t speculate as to what those are.”

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Coldplay’s frontman Chris Martin questioned if the couple was having an affair as he caught them on the Kiss Cam.  (@calebu2/TMX)

During her interview, Cabot opened up about the harassment she endured after video of her and her boss at the time, former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, enjoying a romantic moment at a Coldplay concert went viral in 2025.

Chris Martin, the band’s frontman, and much of the internet assumed the two had been caught in an affair, and the narrative spread like wildfire.

Chris Martin’s reaction to Kristin Cabot moving away from Andy Byron on the kiss cam sparked a viral internet storm. (Samir Hussein/WireImage)

Despite the global speculation about an illicit affair, Cabot maintained that she was already separated from her husband at the time and that he was aware of her “very close” working relationship with Byron.

She was repeatedly told that the situation would blow over but said that instead it derailed her career and her life.

Cabot revealed that the internet frenzy didn’t just cost her a job, it left her teenage children fearing for her life amid death threats and public harassment. She told Winfrey that her children became concerned they might lose her after they overheard a conversation about the online death threats.

“They were terrified for me,” she explained.

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Rapper Afroman is celebrating a major legal victory after an Ohio jury ruled that his songs and music videos mocking a police raid on his home are protected by the First Amendment.

Appearing on “Jesse Watters Primetime” following the verdict, the rapper wore an American flag suit to deliver a message to the country.

“I didn’t cry. I took it like a sport. I wrote songs, and I put out an album, and that album was designed to pay for the damages that they did,” Afroman, whose real name is Joseph Foreman, said Friday.

The legal battle began in 2022 when officers raided the Grammy-nominated rapper’s Ohio home on suspicion of drug trafficking and kidnapping. Authorities found no evidence of a crime, and the “Because I Got High” rapper used home security footage of the incident to produce his album “Lemon Pound Cake.”

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Rapper Afroman performs onstage during the Texas Ballpark Tour at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas, on Dec. 2, 2018. (Rick Kern/WireImage)

“That was my way of walking away from it, cracking a little joke, investing in it, in some music, and hoping I raised enough money to pay the damage,” he said, referring to the damage officers did to his property.

His music videos garnered millions of views on YouTube and directly referred to the raid in the lyrics, videos and titles of songs like “Will You Help Me Repair My Door?”

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The seven sheriff’s deputies who sued Afroman were collectively seeking nearly $4 million in damages for defamation, arguing they’d been harassed over the videos. 

One officer was shown in home surveillance footage looking at a cake inside Afroman’s home during the raid, which inspired the album’s name.

Afroman performs onstage during the Snoop Dogg Puff Puff Pass Tour at the Hard Rock Event Center in Hollywood, Fla., on Dec. 20, 2018. (Johnny Louis/Getty Images)

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The jury ruled in favor of Afroman, supporting the principle that creative work is protected by free speech. The artist said he was “surprised” by how significant the case became for the country and the First Amendment.

“It was a big deal in my life, but I didn’t know it was a big deal to the world,” he said.

Afroman attends the 44th Annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., in Feb. 2002.  (Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)

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With the 250th birthday of the United States approaching, the rapper ended with a message to the country.

“This is home and I love everybody,” he said, adding, “and God bless freedom of speech and all that good stuff.”

Pakistan does not leave any opportunity to spew venom against India. In the midst of the war raging in Western Asia, former High Commissioner of Pakistan Abdul Basit has made a strong complaint about India. Referring to a hypothetical situation, he said that if America attacks Pakistan then Islamabad should target India.

Basit’s provocative statement

Basit said, ‘Imagine if America attacks Pakistan, then Pakistan should drop bombs on cities like India’s capital Delhi and Mumbai.’ His provocative statement came at a time when it has been three weeks since the war broke out between America, Israel and Iran and there are concerns about security even at the regional level. The conflict with the neighboring country also continues with Afghanistan.

His argument was that even if Pakistan was out of reach of its direct targets, it should ‘never give up’ its intention to target Indian metros. This argument indicates how dirty Pakistan has a mentality towards India. By taking the names of Mumbai and New Delhi, Basit is not only reliving the pain of terrorist attacks like 26/11, but is also telling the world that India is the only way to resolve Pakistan’s military frustrations.

Poison spewed in TV debate

Abdul Basit said in a TV debate with ABN News, ‘Suppose, the situation in Iran gets worse. Israel comes and sits in our neighbourhood. Such a situation arises where America also looks at our nuclear program with a bad eye, or tries to destroy our nuclear capability, which is impossible.

He further said, ‘But, I am talking about the worst situation, which is impossible, because Pakistan has enough capacity to defend itself, but, if such a situation arises that if America attacks Pakistan… America is not in our nuclear range, we cannot even reach their bases in the regional areas or we cannot even attack Israel, then what will be the way for us.’

‘We have to attack India’

Basit again made a strange statement. He said, ‘We have seen, nothing else should be done. Even if our range does not reach America and someone casts an evil eye on us, we will have to attack India without thinking. Tax has to be paid on Mumbai, tax has to be paid on New Delhi. We don’t have to leave. Whatever happens later remains to be seen. We will have no other option if America attacks us, which is impossible. So the world should know that if someone casts a blind eye on us, we will not step back without giving a reply. Concluding his speech, he said that although India would not want this nor do we want such a situation. We would like them not to look at us with dirty eyes.

Who is Abdul Basit?

Abdul Basit has been the former High Commissioner of Pakistan, he was also the High Commissioner of India for three years. Apart from India, he has held senior positions in Pakistani embassies in many countries. He had also been Pakistan’s Ambassador to Germany from 2012 to 2014. His tenure in India started from 2014, after which he stayed here for three years. His poisonous words came to light when he himself had worked in these cities.

Parts of the UK enjoyed breathtaking views of the Northern Lights overnight – and more is forecast for Saturday.

The natural light show, known as the aurora borealis, is one of nature’s “most spectacular displays”, according to the Met Office.

Pictures from Friday night featured waves of mostly green and purple light at Bamburgh in Northumberland in the UK, as well as in Estonia and Canada, while social media users posted images taken elsewhere, including Russia.

While the Northern Lights are mostly visible near the Arctic Circle and northern Scotland, the Met Office said “pale green and pink to vibrant reds, blues, and violets can sometimes light up the night sky, especially in the north of the UK”.

The Met Office said on Thursday there was a chance of seeing the northern lights “over the next couple of nights”, predicting sightings being “most likely across Scotland where skies are clear but perhaps into northern England too”.

What causes the Northern Lights?

The shimmering spectacle occurs when energy and charged particles released from the sun through coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares travel towards Earth on the solar wind and collide with the Earth’s magnetic field and upper atmosphere, interacting with gases to create spectacular displays of blue, purple, green, pink and red.

If the solar activity is strong enough, it will cause a geomagnetic storm.

In January, the Met Office said the solar maximum was “all but confirmed to have taken place in 2024 and 2025”, meaning solar activity on the surface of the sun “appears to be in a declining phase”.

But it said this phase “can be a period which can often bring strong events, as evidenced by last week’s aurora visibility as far south as northern Italy”.

Will we see them again soon?

Several things need to occur for the skies over the UK to dazzle again.

Any solar eruptions that do occur need to be aimed at Earth and cause a strong geomagnetic storm.

It also needs to be dark enough, with settled weather allowing clear skies to see the aurora.

What’s the best way to capture them?

While the Northern Lights are visible to the naked eye, the colours often appear faint and muted compared with those captured by camera.

To take better pictures of the aerial phenomena, Adobe recommends using manual camera settings and a wide aperture on a camera.

It suggests using low shutter speeds, up to 20 seconds, as well as setting the camera’s ISO value all the way to 2,000 or higher – such settings are usually available in smartphones’ camera settings.

Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier warned this week that America’s elite universities are in trouble if they continue to prioritize political activism over their mission of spreading knowledge.

Diermeier joined the Washington Post’s “Reasonably Optimistic” podcast Wednesday to discuss the future of higher education and its role in culture wars. He stated that universities have become increasingly politicized, blaming that “mission drift” for the decrease of public trust in those institutions.  

“The fundamental purpose of university is to be a place where you have path-breaking research and a transformative education.”

— Daniel Diermeier

“The fundamental purpose of university is to be a place where you have path-breaking research and a transformative education,” Diermeier said. 

“You’re not a political party, and you’re not part of a political movement,” he added. 

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Diermeier specifically blasted the use of “political litmus tests” in hiring faculty and staff at top schools. 

He also criticized sorting incoming students into identity categories during orientation, saying it can lead to students being “socially ostracized” for challenging conventional wisdom.

“When departments can’t hire people or refuse to hire people based on their scholarly accomplishments, but when there’s a political litmus test, you need to take action as a dean or president,” Diermeier said.

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Pro-Palestinian protestors link arms and take back a student encampment on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after a 2:30pm deadline passed to leave the encampment, Monday May 6, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass.  (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)

He argued it’s not all faculty on campuses stoking political fires, but often a “small but well-motivated and organized minority.” Diermeier noted that many faculty members want to work rather than engage in political battles.

“Once you enter the political battle, you’re in the political battle, and that’s where we are right now,” he warned.

In recent years, universities have been at the center of cultural controversies, including protests over the Israel-Hamas war and the Black Lives Matter movement. 

In March 2024, several students were arrested or suspended for their actions during a protest at Vanderbilt over the war in Gaza.

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A pro-Palestinian protester uses a bullhorn during a demonstration in front of Sproul Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, on April 22, 2024. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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The pressure is also coming from Washington. A House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report Tuesday, which found some higher education faculty members “amplifying antisemitism.”

Last year, the Trump administration’s Department of Education announced that at least 60 universities were under investigation for antisemitism and harassment, including Ivy League schools.

Political activities are intense in West Bengal regarding the upcoming assembly elections. TMC chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is loudly raising the issue of shortage of LPG cylinders. Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has come out in support of Mamata Banerjee regarding the 2026 Bengal elections. Responding, he expressed hope about Mamata Banerjee’s victory. The SP chief said that even if Mamata Banerjee fights alone, she will win.

A single person will fight, win and grow – Akhilesh Yadav

Former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav wrote on the social media platform, “A single person will fight, win and grow.” The SP chief has also shared a photo in this post, in which there is a picture of Mamata Banerjee and her supporters, in which she is taking out a protest march raising the issue of shortage of LPG cylinders and talking about boycotting BJP.

will fight alone
Will win and grow! pic.twitter.com/2gVTzuNCvo

— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) March 21, 2026

War should never happen – Akhilesh Yadav

Amidst the increasing tension and war-like situation in the Middle East, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday (21 March) made a sharp attack on the foreign policy of the Modi government. Speaking to the media in Lucknow, he said, “Socialist ideology has always been against war and is in favor of peace. On the very first day I had said that the people of Samajwadi Party and those who believe in socialist ideology are never in favor of war. War should never happen. As a country, India missed an opportunity to become a global leader.

BJP people only want to spread hatred- Akhilesh Yadav

He further said, “If India had taken a strong stand, the war could have been avoided.” The Indian government did not make its stand clear in the Iran-Israel-America conflict, which affected the country’s image. BJP people don’t know anything. They just want to spread hatred and take political advantage of every situation. Due to the war, the economy is being affected, inflation is increasing and the foreign policy has proved to be a complete failure.

The death of cow protector Baba Chandrashekhar, famously known as ‘Farsa Wale Baba’, near the Haryana border on Saturday (21st March) at around 4 am in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh created a sensation. The supporters claimed that cow smugglers had run over them and blocked the highway. The mob pelted stones at vehicles and policemen passing through the highway, due to which the glass panes of many vehicles were broken. There was a huge jam on the highway. After which a large number of police forces reached the spot and started trying to control the situation.

To control the violent crowd, the police first used mild force and then also fired tear gas shells. This uproar happened at a time when President Draupadi Murmu During the day, he prayed at the Danghati temple of Govardhan, where he participated in the aarti of Giriraj Ji Maharaj and did Govardhan parikrama.

Supporters of ‘Farsa Wale Baba’ claim that Baba was trying to stop a truck loaded with cattle near Nabipur in the Kotwan border area when he was crushed by cow smugglers. As soon as information about the death was received, cow servants from UP and Haryana started reaching the spot. The crowd also reached in large numbers and tension spread. After a few hours of uproar, the police rejected all the claims and said that some anti-social people in the crowd tried to spoil the atmosphere.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Taking immediate cognizance of this matter, he has given instructions for an impartial investigation. The saints also reacted sharply. Devkinandan Thakur said that in a pilgrimage place like Mathura, acts like cow smuggling and cow slaughter are shameful. If the cow protectors came to know about it, then why doesn’t the police come to know about it? Is it a conspiracy or an accident? The government should conduct an honest and impartial investigation.

At the same time, Swami Vishnu Das said that the way cow smugglers have committed the murder of Mathura’s cow vigilante Chandrashekhar by crushing his car, such people should be hanged at intersections.

How did Baba die?
According to news agency PTI, District Magistrate Chandra Prakash Singh said that Farsa Wale Baba was stopping and investigating a container with Nagaland number along with his disciples at 4 am on Saturday at Haryana Border Police Station area Kosikalan on the information of presence of cow in the vehicle. That container was filled with soap, phenyl, shampoo etc. and during this time, due to dense fog, a truck with Rajasthan number hit the container from behind, due to which Baba died on the spot. He told that the truck driver was injured in this accident.

According to Mathura SSP Shlok Kumar, Farsa Baba had received information about cow smugglers during the night. Had set out to chase this. He said, “A vehicle was stopped on the basis of suspicion by Chandrashekhar alias Farsa Baba in Kosi police station area last night between 03:00-04:00 AM. During this time, due to dense fog, he unfortunately died after being hit by a truck coming from behind. The container which Baba had stopped was found to contain groceries and the truck coming from behind was found to be loaded with wires. This is a road accident, it has nothing to do with cow smuggling.

Along with this, Mathura Police has warned that “the news circulating on social media related to cow slaughter or cow progeny smuggling is completely misleading and untrue.” On the basis of the complaint received, a case of accident is being registered at Kosikalan police station. Mathura Police appeals to the public not to spread any factless rumor on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, otherwise strict legal action will be taken against those spreading misleading information.

The SSP said that the situation has been controlled by using necessary force against those creating law and order situation. Advance legal action is being taken.

funeral completed
After the crowd got assurance of appropriate action from the administration, the last rites of Farsa Wale Baba were performed at his ashram in Barsana, Mathura. However, there is still dissatisfaction among his followers. The police are demanding a fair investigation.

Farsawale Baba used to do cow service in this ashram, whichever cow got injured or fell ill, he used to bring them and serve them. People say that last night also he had received information about cow smuggling, after which he left and died.

On the Mathura incident, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that people of BJP do not know anything, they only want to spread hatred and take political advantage of every situation. This government takes political work from the police and administration. That is why the administration and police are not looking after law and order and administration.