{"id":49653,"date":"2025-07-31T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49653\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T08:52:07","slug":"on-the-valley-bravo-protects-him-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49653\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Valley, Bravo Protects Him Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe biggest revelation on Tuesday night\u2019s \u201cValley\u201d reunion was that Jax Taylor<\/a>\u2018s domestic abuse went much deeper than was discussed on the show this season.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen host Andy Cohen asked Taylor\u2019s estranged wife, Brittany Cartwright, about the huge fight between them that led to Taylor seeking professional help, Cartwright started listing off all of the abuse she faced from her spouse.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe began with information that audiences knew from this season: \u201cHe was extremely aggressive. He threw the coffee table. It landed on my knee. It turned black immediately. He threw both barstools.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThen came the new information.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe threw my Stanley cup and broke it,\u201d she continued. \u201cHe threw my phone and broke it. He threw my laptop and broke it. He threw me into the rose bushes\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough Taylor denied it, Cartwright doubled down, saying, \u201cYes, you did. It\u2019s on my Ring camera doorbell. My close friends up here have seen the videos.\u201d That led co-star Zack Wickham to nod affirmatively and Kristen Doute to verbally confirm she had seen them.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith such a revelation, Bravo<\/a> viewers certainly had follow-up questions. Yet Cohen immediately pivoted back to grilling Cartwright about a romance with Taylor\u2019s former friend: \u201cHow long did you date Julian?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhether it was bizarre editing or an autopilot choice by the usually inquisitive Cohen, it was a response that seemed oddly coded in victim shaming: Sure, getting thrown into a rose bush is tough, but have you thought about how Jax feels about you dating his buddy?<\/p>\n

\n\tMinutes later, as the episode wrapped, a hotline screen was shown for people struggling with substance abuse issues, which, given Taylor\u2019s struggles, is reasonable. Yet there was no similar message shown to viewers who might need help dealing with domestic violence, however triggering the scene might have been. (If needed, help is available via the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThis episode of television \u2014 the first of a three-part reunion \u2014\u00a0also comes after Taylor allegedly decided to step back from Season 3<\/a> of \u201cThe Valley<\/a>.\u201d Who knows to what extent Bravo allowed Taylor to save face by saying he made the decision with his team and producers, but Bravo could have also let it be known that domestic violence has no place on the network. Would things be so wishy-washy if a Bravo employee who was not on camera behaved in the same way to a coworker?<\/p>\n

\n\tThere\u2019s no denying that Taylor was a reality TV star from his first moments on \u201cVanderpump Rules\u201d when the show debuted in 2013. Audiences couldn\u2019t take their eyes off of this self-obsessed hunk who was seemingly incapable of telling the truth. Yet after more than a decade of women and drinks and lies and coke and megalomania, the mask has slipped off. He may be great television, but the cast of \u201cThe Valley\u201d shouldn\u2019t be forced to tiptoe around or justify the behavior of a man who treats the mother of his child this way.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaylor ended the episode tearfully lamenting that, \u201cI know some people think I\u2019m not human. I\u2019m the devil. I get it. But I still have fucking feelings too.\u201d Fair enough, and hopefully you are truly committed to your sobriety and mending fences with your son. But just go away and do it on your own, and Bravo: Please don\u2019t give him the platform to return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest revelation on Tuesday night\u2019s \u201cValley\u201d reunion was that Jax Taylor\u2018s domestic abuse went much deeper than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[603,88,29001,29003],"class_list":{"0":"post-49653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bravo","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jax-taylor","11":"tag-the-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}