Joy Taylor has reportedly been taken off the air following a bombshell of a lawsuit exposing alleged relationships with coworkers at FOX Sports.
Taylor has been absent from FS1’s ‘Speak’ all week, and Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports reports that she has been “sidelined” from the show.
The exact reason for Joy’s absence was not disclosed, but FOS is reporting that it’s the result of an “infraction.”
“The apparent infraction that led Taylor to be off the program for at least three days was not immediately known,” Glasspiegel’s report notes.
This comes more than a month after the co-host was named in a wild lawsuit in which she was accused of mocking and insulting Noushin Faraji, a hairstylist who worked with the network. Faraji also asserts that Taylor had sexual relations with executive Charlie Dixon and co-host Emmanuel Acho to land a gig on a top network show.
Dixon is also named in the lawsuit, as is Skip Bayless, with Faraji accusing both of them of sexual misconduct. Bayless, who is no longer with FOX, is said to have offered the hairstylist $1.5 million to sleep with him.
Dixon, meanwhile, was sent on leave after he was accused of sexual assault by former FOX Sports host Julie Stewart-Binks in another lawsuit.
Joy Taylor’s Absence Apparently Has Nothing To Do With The NFL Season Ending
Joy Taylor had remained on the air after the lawsuit naming her went public and played a significant role in FOX’s coverage of Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans earlier this month.
It was believed that her absence this week could be due to a post-Super Bowl break. But it appears there’s a lot more to it.
It is not clear whether FOX’s decision to remove her from the air has anything to do with Faraji’s lawsuit, but we expect more to surface over the coming days.
