Coldplay’s kiss cam strikes again at astonishing return to Wembley Stadium

When I became the towncrier, telling those far and wide ‘I’ve got Coldplay tickets’, the response was either ‘Can I come?’ or something along the lines of ‘Are you going there to have an affair?’

I don’t need to tell you what happened. It might be easier to find those who haven’t seen the Astronomer CEO and his HR head in a cuddly embrace on a warm night in Boston, before they suddenly repelled like identical magnets. The moment became the most memed of the year so far and it all played out on Coldplay’s kiss cam (technically a misnomer, it’s a jumbotron set to Chris Martin’s improvised serenade). 

Coldplay was suddenly back in the news and the subject of every dinner conversation, admittedly, for slightly unseemly reasons. Regardless, Martin and co’s first night back at Wembley on their Music of the Spheres tour shows they’re making the most of it.

So are the fans, because I was treated to kiss cam drama of the best kind. As Martin joked ahead of the roaming camera’s work, this is something they were about to do ‘for the first time ever and it definitely didn’t go viral’.

The jumbotron landed on a towering man holding a very-much-homemade sign decrying ‘I want to propose her’ (sic – we can only assume he was so giddy with excitement he didn’t double check the wording). The sign featured an arrow pointing down to his petite girlfriend in front.

After checking neither of them was anyone else’s partner – Martin is completely in on the gag – he sang a ditty advising the fan ‘get down on one knee’. He did, she said yes and the whole of Wembley cheered.