Another firing from Bravo’s long-running reality series Vanderpump Rules tonight, as Variety reports that Jax Taylor will no longer appear on the show. A breakout star on the reality series, for a long list of behaviors that might best be described as “telegenically shitty”—including fist fights, infidelity, falsehoods, and other mainstays of the Real Housewives template from which the restaurant-focused series is derived—Taylor has appeared on all 8 seasons of the popular show. His is the third major departure from the currently shuttered series in recent months, after co-stars Kristen Doute and Stassi Schroeder were removed from the series when it was revealed that they had allegedly falsely reported another employee, Faith Stowers, for a crime she didn’t commit in hopes of getting her fired. It has, in other words, been a time of renewal, cleaning house, and reality-show-scale reckonings for Vanderpump Rules, and Taylor’s is just the latest axe to fall.
Neither Taylor, nor Bravo, went into details about why he’s no longer welcome on the series, instead going for the as-dignified-as-this-is-gonna-get “Now he gets to spend more time with his family” route. (Taylor and wife Brittany Cartwright previously spent time together as a family on their own Vanderpump spin-off, Jax And Brittany Take Kentucky.) It’s not entirely clear whether there was a specific inciting incident here, as with Doute and Schroeder, or if Taylor’s particular blend of toxic masculinity and AXE Body Spray had simply finally started to rot in the modern climate. (Us Weekly reports that on at least one occasion, he also appears to have made tweets accusing Stowers of a crime.) As Variety notes, Taylor directly argued with series namesake Lisa Vanderpump in the series’ most recent finale, asserting that it was “his” show; reality show drama is one thing, but there are, presumably, limits.)
Vanderpump Rules—which relies on being able to film at Vanderpump’s SUR restaurant, where most of the cast was at least originally employed—is currently shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There’s no word yet on when it will emerge from its cocoon, a still-trashy, but at least Taylor-free, butterfly at last.
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wow. crazy.
Trashy reality TV is my guilty pleasure. Jax is a pretty shitty dude so my reaction to this news is “HA!”. Well deserved.
But Vanderpump Rules has run its course anyway. The cast is too old. A show about 20 somethings working in a restaurant/bar in LA trying to make it? Cool. A show with the cast in their mid 30s to 40s still “working” in a restaurant/bar in LA? Not cool
I don’t know, I have zero interest in watching a bunch of beautiful 20-somethings at the prime of their life having an awesome time. Pathetic 40-somethings losing their sanity because they’re trying to act like they’re still 20-somethings? Endlessly fascinating.
Years ago my wife and I went to an old restaurant in Berkeley and wound up with a lifelong waiter who’d been at the restaurant since the early 80s. He casually regaled us with stories of the Olde Days, and it was cute because you could tell when he was leaving out the parts about cocaine.
Most of the women are pregnant now, so add that to the list of things nobody wants to watch.
1. This is a popular tv show that’s been on for 8 seasons?
2. There are too many tv shows.
There are too many tv shows. Please eliminate 3. P.S. I am not a crackpot.
This just in: I watched the original clip and he doesn’t say “P.S.”. I am so ashamed.
“Reading your magazine I don’t see one wrinkled face or single toothless grin. For shame! To the sickos at Modern Bride magazine.”
If they’re not going to cancel all these shithead-porn shows, they could at least sterilize the cast and keep them separated from the general population indefinitely.
I mean, it’s “popular” by “basic cable show that doesn’t pay for writers or actors” standards. I doesn’t need to get NCIS ratings, because it costs next to nothing (by comparison) to produce.
Despite the sexual abuse allegations against him, he was fired primarily for being named “Jax Taylor.”
I don’t trust anyone named after a Mortal Kombat character.
*Sonia Sotomayor kicks can sadly*
And now I’m having weird fantasies about green tights under judicial robes.
Maybe his next step in is a career in porn. Can you get a job as a character in a romance novel?
I really hope there’s a porn star named Taylor Jax, so they can costar in “Jax Taylor Jacks Taylor Jax.”
His is the third major departure from the currently shuttered series in recent months, after co-stars Kristen Doute and Stassi Schroeder were removed from the series when it was revealed that they had allegedly falsely reported another employee, Faith Stowers, for a crime she didn’t commitIn 2018, Faith Stowers was accused of a crime she didn’t commit.Today, she survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find her, maybe you can hire the F-team.
I assume that each week a different reality show asks her for help in acting as loud and obnoxious and destructive as humanly possible?
Well played 👏
This guy seems more like a parody or caricature of a douche bro than an actual douche bro.So I guess congrats for taking it to the next level and living the dream?
H.L. Mencken would be proud. Or horrified.One of those two.
People should be fired for liking this show.
But who will buy all the cocaine now!!!
“I remember when Bravo used to show opera”- Jack Donaghy
I always have a little chuckle when I see a movie like Paul Blart: Mall Cop playing on “American Movie Classics”.
Or Saved By the Bell marathons on IFC.
I still can’t believe that Vanderpump is a real name that somebody has. First time I heard it I figured it was a porn name.
Not just any porn name, but the name of a gilded age robber-baron porn millionaire.
Maybe some German porn actor named “Van”
Penis pump rules.
I think it’s hilarious that these people are being fired from the show for being “shitty people” when the entire conceit of the show is “watch shitty people act shitty”. At one point did people start deciding to hold these individuals to some sort of moral standard lol? They might as well cancel all of Bravo’s programming if that’s the case.
There is 8 seasons of a tv show about people working in a bar? What’s next, a show about office workers working in a paper company in an industrial park? Or a show about civil servants working in a municipal department in a rural America?