Kristen Doute and MJ Javid did not hesitate to throw shade at Andy Cohen for his alleged support of “poorly behaved men” on Bravo.
During the Monday, March 3, episode of the “Balancing Act” podcast, Doute, 42, was discussing her The Valley costar Jax Taylor‘s continuous ups and downs that were well-documented on Vanderpump Rules.
“Every single reunion with Andy, Jax was saying ‘Andy, I’m just a work in progress,” Doute said. “And Andy would be like, ‘How many more years are we going to sit here and you’re going to say that?’”
Javid, 52, replied by claiming that Cohen, 56, actually “loves his poorly behaved men,” to which Doute added, “He sure does. He certainly does.”
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The Shahs of Sunset alum quipped that Cohen’s support was “to the West Coast and back.” Doute didn’t disagree, noting, “He certainly f—king does.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Cohen for comment. While neither Doute nor Javid clarified which men on Bravo they thought Cohen supported, their comments came one day before Taylor, 45, revealed that he had a cocaine addiction during his time on Vanderpump Rules.
“I thought for the most part that I was keeping a lot of it under the radar. But clearly I wasn’t,” Taylor recalled on the Tuesday, March 4, episode of Alex Baskin‘s “Hot Mic” podcast. “When I watch back I’m like, ‘How big are my f—ing pupils? I’m sweating and there’s no reason to be sweating in the scene. Why am I sweating?’”
After fans questioned Taylor’s behavior in the past, he acknowledged there were “some signs” they were picking up on, adding, “And [producers] did pull me aside a couple times and say, ‘Listen, calm down now.’ They didn’t know, but they thought I was drinking too much.”
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Taylor subsequently clarified that production wasn’t “supplying” the cast with alcohol or any substances.
“I would go off on my own. We would film a scene and you have 30 minutes [of] downtime so most people go rest. I would go to a bar, get lit or go next door from SUR and that’s where we all went because we weren’t allowed to drink during scenes,” he detailed. “During certain times, we would go to parties. But when we’re doing these important scenes, they were like, ‘Stay away from that’. But we’d all sneak in the back alley or we would all go get ripped before a scene.”
Vanderpump Rules, which debuted in 2013, started as a spinoff of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and evolved into its own franchise. The show originally followed Lisa Vanderpump and the staff at her restaurant SUR — Taylor, Stassi Schroeder, Scheana Shay, Katie Maloney, Tom Sandoval and Doute — as they tried to navigate professional and personal conflict.
Doute and Schroeder were original cast members on Vanderpump Rules who were both fired in June 2020 due to past racially insensitive behavior toward former costar Faith Stowers. Taylor and Cartwright, meanwhile, left the show that same year before reuniting with Doute on The Valley.
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