Jax Taylor Biography
Jax Taylor, fully known as Jason Michael Cauchi is a famous American television personality, model, and actor. Previously, Taylor was featured on the Bravo reality television series Vanderpump Rules, until being fired in December 2020.
Jax Taylor Education
Taylor attended Eisenhower High School in Shelby Township, Michigan, where he graduated in 1998. He then joined Michigan State University and community college, where he later dropped out to join the Navy. Taylor was in the Navy for 6 months, and 4 days and was trained at a base in Norfolk, Virginia, where he worked in the mess hall prior to being discharged partway through his first tour for undisclosed reasons.
Jax Taylor Career
Modeling
Jax worked as a model in Europe and lived in Miami from 2002 to 2010. He signed with Ford Models in New York City. Taylor has appeared in various magazines such as Trump Magazine, V Man, GQ Japan, Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Esquire, 944 Magazine, Instinct, Out, and CosmoGirl. He also has starred in campaigns for Macy’s, Target, JCPenney, Nordstrom, Old Navy, Skechers, Kohl’s, AussieBum, Paul Mitchell, 2(x)ist, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Taco Bell. Taylor then resumed his modeling career by starring in a Jack Victor campaign in 2018. He later collaborated with XCALIBUR BRAND in 2014 to create a shoe and sweater collection. Also in 2014, he created a fitness application that lasted just a couple of months prior to being abandoned.
Television
Taylor began working at Lisa Vanderpump’s restaurants SUR and Villa Blanca, which gained him a spot on the reality television series Vanderpump Rules in 2013, after 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. They have also appeared in 3 episodes of Vanderpump Rules: Watch with Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor (2022-23) on Peacock.
He then confirmed that he had filmed a new reality show called House of Villains in a May 2023 interview with Rolling Stone. Variety then reported that a Vanderpump Rules spin-off starring Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, and Kristen Doute was in early development at Bravo.
House of Villains
In 2023, he is set to appear in the House of Villains show. The House of Villains is a series hosted by Joel McHale, featuring 10 reality television’s most memorable and notorious villains competing for a $200,000 cash prize and the title of America’s Ultimate Supervillain.
Jax Taylor Age
Jason Michael Cauchi is 44 years old as of 2023 and was born on July 11, 1979, in Shelby Township, Michigan, United States. He celebrates his birthday on the 11th of July every year and his zodiac sign is Cancer.
Jax Taylor Height
Taylor stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 11 inches (Approx. 1.80 meters) tall.
Jax Taylor Family
Taylor was born in Shelby Township, Michigan to Ronald Cauchi and Marie Cauchi. His father was a Maltese, while his mother is an Australian and was brought up Catholic until he was 19 years old. He also has a sister named Jenny Lynn.
Jax Taylor Wife
Taylor started dating Brittany Cartwright in 2015, and she instantly uprooted to LA to join him on Vanderpump Rules. They got engaged in Malibu, California on June 7, 2018, and 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. They revealed in September 2020 that they were expecting their first child due in April 2021. The couple has a boy named Cruz Michael Cauchi, born on April 12, 2021, and have said they want a second child.
Jax Taylor’s Net Worth
Taylor has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – and $5 Million which he has earned through being a model, actor, and reality TV star.
Jax Taylor Salary
Taylor earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500.
House of Villains
Taylor is expected to appear in the House of Villains in 2023 alongside other TV personalities including:
- Anfisa Arkhipchenko
- Jonny Fairplay
- Johnny Bananas
- Bobby Lytes
- Shake Chatterjee
- Omarosa Manigault Newman
- Corinne Olympios
- Tiffany Polland
- Tanisha Thomas
- Joel McHale