Taylor Bio
Jax Taylor, born as Jason Michael Cauchi is an American TV personality, model, and actor who spent eight seasons as a series regular on the Bravo reality television series Vanderpump Rules and its spin-off series The Valley.
How old is Taylor?
The Vanderpump Rules star is 46 years old as of 11 July 2025. He was born on 11 July 1979 in Shelby Township, Michigan, United States.
Are Jax and Brittany still married?
He started dating Brittany Cartwright in 2015. On June 7, 2018, the pair got engaged at Neptune’s Net, a beachfront restaurant in Malibu, California. The pair married on June 29, 2019, at the Kentucky Castle in Versailles, Kentucky. Their son, Cruz, was born in April 2021. In August 2024, Cartwright filed for divorce from Taylor, alleging irreconcilable differences.
Does Jax Taylor have any children?
Taylor and his estranged wife, Brittany Cartwright, have one kid, a son named Cruz Michael Cauchi. April 2021 was Cruz’s birth month.
Did Jax Taylor serve in the Military?
Taylor was reared Catholic and went to church until he was 19 years old. He attended Eisenhower High School in Shelby Township, Michigan, and graduated in 1998. He attended Michigan State University and community college before dropping out to join the Navy. He served in the Navy for six months and four days, and was trained at a station in Norfolk, Virginia.
What did Jax Taylor get diagnosed with?
Taylor stated on Instagram in September 2024 that he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD and had admitted himself to an inpatient treatment facility.
What does Taylor do now for a living?
Taylor lived in Miami and worked as a model in Europe from 2002 to 2010. In New York City, Taylor signed a contract with Ford Models. Trump Magazine, V Man, GQ Japan, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, 944 Magazine, Esquire, Instinct, CosmoGirl, and Out are just a few of the magazines in which he has been featured. In addition, he has starred in advertisements for Paul Mitchell, AussieBum, 2(x)ist, Target, Macy’s, JCPenney, Old Navy, Nordstrom, Kohl’s, Skechers, Taco Bell, and Abercrombie & Fitch. He made a comeback to modeling in 2018 by starring in a Jack Victor commercial. Taylor and Xcalibur Brand worked together to produce a line of shoes and sweaters in 2014. Taylor also developed a fitness app in 2014, but it was dropped after only a few months.
He began his career as an uncredited background actor in a number of television series, including Will & Grace, Dexter, Arrested Development, The O.C., and 2 Broke Girls. He was given credit as Hot Guy 2 in Dance Club on Desperate Housewives in 2009, where he served Nicollette Sheridan’s character a drink at a club. He started working at Lisa Vanderpump’s restaurants SUR and Villa Blanca, which landed him a seat on the reality television series Vanderpump Rules in 2013, following the lives of the SUR and Villa Blanca servers. Following their trip to Cartwright’s hometown in Kentucky, Taylor and Brittany Cartwright were featured in their own spin-off television series, Vanderpump Rules: Jax & Brittany Take Kentucky.
Additionally, three episodes of Vanderpump Rules: Watch with Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor (2022–23) on Peacock featured the duo. At the BravoCon event in November 2023, the chief producers of Vanderpump Rules revealed that Taylor would be a guest on the show’s eleventh season.
Taylor acknowledged filming a new reality program called House of Villains in an interview with the Rolling Stone in May 2023. The show debuted on E! on October 12, 2023. The program followed ten TV villains as they fought for the title of “America’s Ultimate Supervillain” and a $200,000 prize. He was the first competitor to be eliminated by a vote.
Variety revealed on June 28, 2023, that Bravo was in the early stages of developing a Vanderpump Rules spin-off featuring Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, and Kristen Doute. A trailer for Bravo’s reality series The Valley, which debuted on March 19, 2024, was released on January 18, 2024. Taylor and Cartwright are one of five couples that appear in the series. The whole cast of The Valley returned when it was revived for a second season in May 2024. In order to concentrate on his sobriety, mental health, and coparenting, Taylor declared in July 2025 that he would not be returning for the third season.
Along with his wife Cartwright and three other business associates, Taylor launched a sports bar called “Jax’s” in Studio City, California, in October 2023. Because the foundations of a bar were already there from a prior endeavor, he was able to rapidly open Rocco’s Tavern after striking an agreement with its proprietors. “Cartwright, a native of Kentucky, even included her family’s renowned “Mamaw’s Beer Cheese” on the menu (a plot point when the two were on VPR),” according to People magazi.