Joy Taylor Says Man She Dated Wouldn’t Take Off Calorie Counter During Sex

Sometimes counting calories is just too important.

On the Thursday, December 4, episode of her Too Personal podcast, Former Fox Sports host Joy Taylor shared an incident she had while in a previous relationship, when the man she was dating kept tracking his calories during sex.

The topic came up when Taylor and guest Lexie Brown started discussing dating apps. Taylor shared that she met a man on the dating app, Raya, then revealed his unique habit.

“I met a Black man on Raya. We dated for like four months,” Taylor said on the show. “Yeah, he was really nice. So you know, this little tracker thing that tracks your calories. He kept it on during sex.”

Taylor, 38, said her previous partner’s refusal to remove the calorie counter was the beginning of the end.

“So I couldn’t do it,” she said. “I’m not a big ick person but I was like, ‘I ain’t doing this sh*t on during sex.’ ”

Taylor’s personal life has been often in the news this year, ever since she was in the middle of a months-long controversy at Fox Sports.

The former host was named in a sexual assault and discrimination lawsuit in January 2025, which also included sports media personality Skip Bayless. The lawsuit was filed by Noushin Faraji, a former Fox Sports hairstylist, who accused Bayless of offering her $1.5 million in exchange for sex. Bayless denied the allegation.

Faraji also accused Taylor of insulting and mocking her.

“For over a decade at Fox, Faraji was forced to endure a misogynistic, racist, and ableist workplace where executives and talent were allowed to physically and verbally abuse workers with impunity,” the lawsuit alleged.

The lawsuit also named former Fox Sports executive Charlie Dixon, who was let go from the network in April, as a defendant, alleging that Dixon made an unwanted pass at Faraji at a birthday party for Taylor in 2017. Dixon, through his lawyer, denied the allegation.

“It is noteworthy that a Fox spokesperson made no reference to the company investigation of sexual harassment claims in announcing Mr. Dixon’s departure,” Dixon’s attorney said in a statement. “Mr. Dixon has cooperated fully with the investigation and denies engaging in any inappropriate conduct.”

According to the lawsuit, after Faraji told Taylor about an unwanted pass by Dixon, Taylor told her to, “Get over it,” and said that, “she herself only had her job because of Mr. Dixon and that Ms. Faraji only had her job because Ms. Taylor requested her,” and, “she warned that Mr. Dixon could take both away.”

The bombshell lawsuit shook the sports media world, and while Taylor denied the allegations her sports talk show, Speak, was canceled from Fox Sports in July 2025 and her contract was not renewed. She had spent over a decade at the network.

She had cohosted Speak since September 2022, most recently alongside former NFL wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson and former NBA star Paul Pierce.

At the same time, Fox Sports canceled The Facility, hosted by former NFL players Emmanuel Acho, Chase Daniel, James Jones and LeSean McCoy, and Breakfast Ball, hosted by Craig Carton, Mark Schlereth and Danny Parkins.

In a June 2025 episode of The Breakfast Club podcast, Taylor spoke on the situation, not directly addressing the accusations but instead sharing the grief process came with it.

“I have felt a lot of different emotions,” Taylor said on the show. “I think it’s a grief process when anything like that happens. I’ll say, I’ve been through a lot of traumatic things in my life. A lot. And I think any time you go through a trauma or a grieving period of something, you can’t decide who you are when it’s happening. And that’s been the biggest thing for me.”