Joy Taylor Out at FS1

Seven months ago Speak co-host Joy Taylor was accused of having an affair with Emmanuel Acho in a sixual harassment lawsuit filed against the network [click here if you missed that].

Now Joy is out after FS1 cancels Speak and two other shows...

From The Daily Beast

Fox Sports laid off anchor Joy Taylor on Monday months after she was named in a sixual-battery lawsuit.

Taylor had co-hosted the show Speak on its cable network, FS1, alongside former NFL star Keyshawn Johnson and former NBA player Paul Pierce since 2022. In addition to cancelling Speak, the company is also canceling its morning shows Breakfast Ball and The Facility, according to The Athletic.

All three shows had flailing ratings, according to Front Office Sports. Fox Sports did not return an immediate request for comment.

The news came six months after a former Fox Sports hairstylist, Noushin Faraji, accused Taylor of dismissing Faraji’s claim that then-Fox Sports programming executive Charlie Dixon groped her during Taylor’s birthday party in 2017.

Faraji also claimed that Taylor, who is married, had an affair with Dixon, which is how Taylor got her role as moderator on Skip and Shannon: Undisputed. Faraji further accused Taylor of mocking her accent and her PTSD-induced humming.

Taylor denied the accusations to The Athletic earlier this year. “The claims set forth against Ms. Taylor are devoid of merit and appear to have been strategically framed to create unwarranted publicity rather than to seek legitimate redress,” a spokeswoman told The Athletic in February.