Former NFL player Marcellus Wiley believes the alleged “love triangle” involving Fox Sports’ Joy Taylor, Emmanuel Acho and network executive Charlie Dixon cost him his job with the network.
Taylor (pictured), Dixon and former FS1 host Skip Bayless were named in a bombshell lawsuit filed by a former hairstylist for Fox Sports. Noushin Faraji claims Dixon and Bayless groped her repeatedly during the decade she worked at Fox Sports.
In court documents, Faraji said Bayless offered her $1.5 million to sleep with him. She declined.
Bayless, 73, is pictured with his wife of 8 years, Ernestine, at Lil Wayne’s 40th birthday party in Los Angeles in September 2022.
Faraji accused Joy Taylor, 37, of using sexual relationships with Dixon and Acho to further her career. Taylor allegedly used her relationship with Dixon to land an anchor gig on FS1’s “Speak.”
Marcellus Wiley says Taylor replaced him on “Speak” after he was let go. He worked on the show between 2018 and 2022. Wiley also suggested that Acho was let go when Acho’s relationship with Taylor went downhill.
Speaking on his YouTube podcast, Wiley said he read about Taylor’s relationship with Dixon in the lawsuit.
“I never heard that Charlie Dixon and Joy Taylor were sleeping together,” Wiley said. “But, upon hearing that, I’m not gonna lie to y’all. It makes a lot of things make sense. It unlocks a lot for me.”
Wiley suggested he might consider filing a wrongful termination lawsuit.
“Here’s an example of how it can get uglier,” Wiley explained. “What if there was an employee who lost their job – or their job was negatively influenced, intimidated, moved around, put in bad situations, off the network. And it was because their boss allegedly was sleeping with another employee and their co-host was sleeping with the same employee?” he said.
“And then that same employee – coincidentally – just ends up replacing that individual. It’s example, of course, but imagine some kid of love triangle where the boss and a co-host were sleeping with the same person who ends up replacing that individual.”
Wiley, who played for the Bills, Chargers, Cowboys and Jaguars, insists he had heard rumors about Acho and Taylor allegedly sleeping together “multiple times, as recent as a week or two”.
Taylor returned to the set of “Speak” on Monday. She didn’t mention the lawsuit or the allegations that she slept with married men at her workplace.
