Ex-NFL star Marcellus Wiley suggests Fox Sports sex scandal involving Joy Taylor cost him his job

Taylor, Acho and Dixon were all named in a bombshell lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles on behalf of former Fox employee and hair stylist Noushin Faraji.

Taylor is accused of using sexual relationships with Acho and network executive Dixon to further her career.  

The 37-year-old is also alleged to have used ‘her sexuality to get on a show’ in 2020, when she sought a spot on Acho’s program ‘Speak’. 

She later replaced former defensive end Wiley, who worked on the show between 2018 and 2022.

Taylor then began hosting alongside Acho and, in the wake of the bombshell allegations, Wiley has hinted that it was not a coincidence.

Joy Taylor (R) is alleged to have had a sexual relationship with Emmanuel Acho (L)

Ex-NFL player Marcellus Wiley has hinted that the ‘love triangle’ cost him his job with Fox

‘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.’ 

The allegations about Dixon and Taylor have not been confirmed. But, speaking on his YouTube show on Monday, Wiley floated a hypothetical situation involving ‘an employee’. 

His former Fox colleague Jason Whitlock claims Wiley is, in fact, talking about himself.

‘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 spent time with 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’.

He also speculated that Acho’s departure from Speak – he is now a co-host of ‘The Facility’ – was due to their relationship going ‘sour’. 

Taylor was back on Fox Sports 1 on Monday, 24 hours after a bombshell lawsuit dropped

Wiley previously hosted ‘Speak For Yourself’ with Acho before being replaced by Taylor

Neither Acho nor Taylor has responded to the allegations. 

‘Part of the reason it was suggested that they do a show together is because of these allegations in the lawsuit that they were sleeping together, conspiring to get that to go,’ he said.

‘Conspiring with Charlie, conspiring with Emmanuel Acho, “Let’s make this work”. What is crazier is, how they split apart… why did they go on different shows they say? Relationship went sour.’

DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Faraji, Acho, Bayless and Taylor for comment.