Earlier this year, whispers circulated behind closed studio doors as Fox Sports quietly “sidelined” Joy Taylor amid a 42-page lawsuit alleging workplace misconduct involving network personalities and executives. Internal sources revealed she was benched for multiple episodes of Speak, promoting speculation that “an apparent infraction” disrupted her on-air rhythm. Amid shifting legal and reputational headwinds, executives reportedly began questioning lineup performance and brand alignment.

Concurrently, FS1 morning shows—Breakfast Ball and The Facility—failed to draw viewers, fueling a strategy pivot. The latter, co-hosted by Emmanuel Acho and peers, launched in September 2024 but stumbled, leading to cast and schedule shuffles in early 2025. While Fox didn’t issue a press release explicitly stating about her firing, considering all these shows struggled to find a huge audience, prompting the cancellations, the writing was on the wall. Joy Taylor is out at Fox Sports.

Right after that went down, Taylor took to her official Instagram handle and shared her next move post her termination as she posted a story of working out, rope-skipping under a sunny sky during her vacation in the Bahamas. The former Fox analyst is currently spending some quality time during her vacation on the beaches. She captioned her reel, “Couple sets before the beach.” 

The 38-year-old NFL analyst spent nearly a decade at FOX, as her contract was quietly nearing its end. Taylor also served as the moderator on Undisputed, guiding debates between Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe. Until this week, she co-hosted Speak alongside Keyshawn Johnson and Paul Pierce—right up to the moment the show signed off for good as part of a series of moves.

Meanwhile, Colin Cowherd’s “The Herd” (begins at noon), and “First Things First” with Nick Wright, Chris Broussard, and Kevin Wildes at 3 p.m. (ET) will reportedly continue. According to The Athletic, FS1 now plans to develop fresh programming to fill the slots left by the canceled shows, which were launched under Dixon’s watch, now that the whole team has been terminated.

Joy Taylor, Emmanuel Acho, along with the others have left FOX

Joy Taylor has been under public scrutiny ever since she found her name mixed up in one of two lawsuits filed by makeup artist Noushin Faraji. Faraji accused Dixon of inappropriate behavior. And as per the suit, Faraji claimed that Taylor asked her to brush off her concerns while telling her to ‘get over it’. The 38-year-old denied the allegations.

Then she briefly went off-air in February–March amid the unfolding allegations. She intensified internal scrutiny of FOX’s brand identity and reputation. Since then, the three shows, Speak, Breakfast Ball, and The Facility, have struggled to gain a huge audience. The result? The network sacked all these shows. Taylor’s contract with Fox was up this summer. And given that the network didn’t offer a contract extension, she is out at Fox Sports.

Former NFL players Emmanuel Acho, Chase Daniel, James Jones, and LeSean McCoy are also out at Fox Sports. They anchored The Facility since its September 2024 debut. But after the show’s sudden cancellation, none had their contracts renewed.

The same happened to Breakfast Ball hosts Craig Carton, Mark Schlereth, and Danny Parkins. Their show ended in early 2025, and all three were left without new deals. In all, Fox’s sweeping reset ended multiple high-profile runs and made way for a bold new programming shift. One that still has everything to prove.