{"id":41312,"date":"2025-07-22T08:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/the-story-of-the-coldplay-couple-unfolded-like-a-soap-opera-but-was-the-pile-on-that-followed-a-proportionate-response-miski-omar-8\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:09:43","slug":"the-story-of-the-coldplay-couple-unfolded-like-a-soap-opera-but-was-the-pile-on-that-followed-a-proportionate-response-miski-omar-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/the-story-of-the-coldplay-couple-unfolded-like-a-soap-opera-but-was-the-pile-on-that-followed-a-proportionate-response-miski-omar-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of the Coldplay couple unfolded like a soap opera. But was the pile-on that followed a proportionate response? | Miski Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re collectively trying to decide through digital telepathy what makes it OK to ruin someone\u2019s life. That is an impossible task<\/p>\n<p>By now we\u2019ve all seen the video: a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/jul\/18\/couple-caught-coldplay-kiss-cam-affair-very-shy\">couple locked in an intimate embrace at a Coldplay concert<\/a>. Within milliseconds, the woman turns her face and the man ducks. The crowd gasps. Chris Martin quips: \u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re very shy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within 24 hours, the internet had done what it does best: turned sleuth. The names of the pair were quickly revealed. LinkedIns found. Both were senior executives at a New York data firm, he, the CEO; she, the head of HR. Both married. With children.<\/p>\n<p>Miski Omar is a writer and director based in Sydney<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jul\/22\/the-story-of-the-coldplay-couple-unfolded-like-a-soap-opera-but-was-the-pile-on-that-followed-a-proportional-response-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re collectively trying to decide through digital telepathy what makes it OK to ruin someone\u2019s life. That is an impossible task By now we\u2019ve all seen the video: a couple locked in an intimate embrace at a Coldplay concert. Within milliseconds, the woman turns her face and the man ducks. The crowd gasps. Chris Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}