Jax Taylor

Jason Michael Cauchi (born July 11, 1979), known professionally as Jax Taylor, is an American television personality, model, and actor. He was previously featured on the Bravo reality television series Vanderpump Rules, until being fired in December 2020.

Early life and education 
Taylor was born in Shelby Township, Michigan on July 11, 1979, to Marie and Ronald Cauchi. His mother is Australian, and his father was Maltese. He has a sister, Jenny Lynn. He was raised Catholic and attended church until he was 19 years old.  In 1998, he graduated from Eisenhower High School in Shelby Township, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University and community college, but he dropped out of school to enter the Navy. He was in the Navy for 6 months, 4 days and was trained at a base in Norfolk, Virginia. Allegedly, he “worked” in the mess hall before being discharged part way through his first tour for unknown reasons.

Career

Modeling 
From 2002 to 2010, Taylor worked as a model in Europe and lived in Miami. Taylor signed with Ford Models in New York City. He has appeared in several magazines, including Trump Magazine, V Man, GQ Japan, Men’s Health,  Cosmopolitan, 944 Magazine, Esquire, Instinct, CosmoGirl and Out. He has also starred in campaigns for Target, Macy's, JCPenney, Old Navy, Nordstrom, Kohl's, Skechers, Paul Mitchell, AussieBum, 2(x)ist, Taco Bell and Abercrombie & Fitch. In 2018, he resumed his modelling career by starring in a Jack Victor campaign. In 2014, Taylor collaborated with XCALIBUR BRAND to create a shoe and sweater collection. In 2014, Taylor also created a fitness application which lasted just a couple of months before being abandoned.

Television 
He started working at Lisa Vanderpump's restaurants SUR and Villa Blanca, which earned him a spot on the reality television series Vanderpump Rules in 2013, following the lives of the SUR and Villa Blanca servers. Taylor and Brittany Cartwright got their own spin-off television series Vanderpump Rules: Jax & Brittany Take Kentucky, which followed the couple's visit to Cartwright's hometown in Kentucky. The couple have also appeared in three episodes of Vanderpump Rules: Watch with Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor (2022–23) on Peacock. 

In a May 2023 interview with the Rolling Stone, Taylor confirmed that he had filmed a new reality show titled House of Villains. The series premiered on October 12, 2023 on E!. The show follows ten television villains competing for a $200,000 prize and the title of "America’s Ultimate Supervillain."

On June 28, 2023, Variety reported that a Vanderpump Rules spin-off starring Taylor, Brittany Cartwright and Kristen Doute was in early development at Bravo.

Personal life 
He began dating Brittany Cartwright in 2015, and she quickly uprooted to LA to join Cauchi on Vanderpump Rules. The show followed their tumultuous relationship amidst cheating scandals and volatile outbursts, before culminating in the made-for-tv wedding. The couple got engaged in Malibu, California on June 7, 2018. The couple wed on June 29, 2019, in Kentucky, and boasted Lance Bass as the officiant - a favor called in from Vanderpump herself after the original pastor’s cruel anti-LGBTQ rhetoric was unearthed. In September 2020, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child due in April 2021. They had a boy named Cruz Michael Cauchi on April 12, 2021, and have stated they do want a second child.

Filmography

Film

Television

Podcasts

References

External links

1979 births
Living people
American actors
21st-century American male actors
American television personalities
Male models from Michigan