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When it comes to making headlines for Fox, you’ll always find one name that steps up every time. And it’s none other than Joy Taylor. And in the time being, she’s out there making some solid headlines. The news? Well, this time the news is Taylor herself. That’s correct! The media personality and the broadcaster have found her name swirling around a lawsuit drama.

Amidst the suit, when we say Taylor’s making headlines, we really mean it—every time she speaks, it feels like her words turn into news, whether she’s just joking or dropping a truth bomb. For instance, take her recent appearance on Speak with her co-hosts, Keyshawn Johnson and Paul Pierce. And nah, she isn’t making a controversial statement on her recent Fox controversy. Instead, it’s kinda jab at the forthcoming president, Donald Trump.

“You can talk nonsense if you want to, it’s a free country, for a couple more days,” Taylor said on Speak during a live broadcast. Her statement came in response to her co-host Johnson. During the broadcast, Taylor along with Johnson and Pierce were discussing what a Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl three-peat would mean for Patrick Mahomes’ legacy.

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However, when Johnson argued that Mahomes deserves to be discussed as possibly the greatest quarterback of all time, Taylor didn’t hold back and fired up with her statement. But there’s no denying that her statement carried some political jab at Trump, who’s preparing to begin his second term as the President on January 20.

But hold up, there’s more to this story than just a cheeky remark. Not a long while ago, many well-known Fox personalities including Joy Taylor, Skip Bayless, Emmanuel Acho, and Charlie Dixon got their names in a lawsuit. Fox’s former hairstylist, Noushin Faraji, filed the suit claiming to be harassed by Bayless and Dixon.

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However, Faraji accused Taylor of having an intimate relationship with Dixon and Acho to further grow her career at Fox. On the other hand, Faraji also accused the FS1 host of refusing the hair stylist’s complaint about harassment by the Fox reporters. Since then, Taylor has found herself in an infinite loop of lawsuits and Fox controversy drama.

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Joy Taylor’s clip goes viral amidst the Fox lawsuit drama

Speaking of an infinite loop of drama, recently footage of Joy Taylor went viral on social media. In the resurfaced viral video, Taylor was speaking about the obstacles she’s faced in a male-dominated industry. The video was originally posted nearly a couple of years ago. Even so, the netizens started a backlash against the FS1 host and slammed her for hypocrisy.

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“You have to constantly reaffirm that you are good enough, that you belong there, and then always prove it,’ Taylor said in an almost two-year-old clip from the ‘I Am Athlete’ podcast. “You got to do twice the work for half the opportunity.” That clip came to light after her recent involvement in the Fox controversy. That seems ironic. The reason? Well, Taylor’s gender-biased comments and Faraji’s allegations following her schemes to protect her job and advance her career don’t seem to suit her viral footage.

“To me, the mentality I’ve always had on it is that’s going to make me better, so that’s why I’m excellent. Because I had to be, I couldn’t be average, I couldn’t be OK, I couldn’t be late. I couldn’t complain. I couldn’t say ‘no.’ Now I do,” she concluded her statement with a laugh. After that footage went viral, netizens took social media by storm. While some of the users started to backlash against Taylor,  her supporters came in her defense. However, amidst all this legal noise, Joy Taylor’s signature confidence remained on display.

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