Background and career
Jason Michael Cauchi (born July 11, 1979), known professionally as Jax Taylor, is an American television personality, model, and actor. He was a main cast member of the Bravo reality television series Vanderpump Rules for its first eight seasons, leaving the series in 2020 and returning as a guest in 2024. He later starred in the first two seasons of the spin-off series The Valley from 2024 to 2025.
Taylor graduated from Eisenhower High School in Shelby Township, Michigan in 1998. He attended Michigan State University and a community college before leaving school. He later served in the United States Navy and was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia.
From 2002 to 2010, Taylor worked as a model, traveling between New York City and Europe. He signed with Ford Models and modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch.
Taylor became a main cast member of Vanderpump Rules when the series premiered in 2013. He remained on the series through its eighth season and left in December 2020. In 2017, Taylor and Brittany Cartwright starred in the six-episode spin-off series Vanderpump Rules: Jax & Brittany Take Kentucky. In 2023, Taylor competed on the first season of the E! reality competition series House of Villains. He returned to Vanderpump Rules as a guest during its eleventh season in 2024. Taylor was among the original cast of The Valley, a Vanderpump Rules spin-off that premiered on March 19, 2024. He remained a main cast member through the second season. In July 2025, he announced that he would not return for the third season, saying that he intended to focus on his sobriety, mental health and coparenting. The third season premiered in April 2026 without him.
In October 2023, Taylor and Cartwright partnered with the owners of Rocco's Tavern to open the sports bar Jax's Studio City in Studio City, Los Angeles. In July 2025, Taylor ended his partnership with the bar.
Taylor and Cartwright launched When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany in March 2023. In March 2025, Cartwright took over the podcast, ending Taylor's role as co-host. On March 13, PodcastOne launched Taylor's solo podcast, In The Mind of a Man with Jax Taylor. The podcast was later titled In The Mind Of Jax Taylor; Apple Podcasts lists its active year as 2025.
