Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright have split after four years of marriage and a total of nine years together. The revelation was disclosed by Cartwright, a former star of Vanderpump Rules, on their podcast, When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany. The announcement came in response to recent reports of marital problems. The statement was issued by her on February 29, 2024. “Jax and I are taking some time apart, and I have made the decision to move into another home to take some space for the sake of my mental health,” she said.
Their relationship was covered on Vanderpump Rules and its spinoff Jax & Brittany Take Kentucky. Taylor and Cartwright originally met in Las Vegas in 2015, and their relationship was documented on both shows. Following their departure from the public eye in the year 2020, the pair resumed their relationship behind the scenes.
Taylor and Cartwright have now become parents to a boy called Cruz, and they have also worked on a variety of projects while maintaining contact with their former co-stars from Vanderpump Rules. Beginning on March 19, their second spinoff, titled The Valley, will make its debut on Bravo. The following is a comprehensive guide to the relationship between Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright, including everything from their engagement to the beginning of their family together.
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright Meeting
Cartwright was a hero of the Vanderpump Rules third season when Taylor and he met at the Gold Spike bar in Las Vegas. Cartwright was a Hooters waitress.
“I was anti-marriage,” Taylor told PEOPLE in July 2019. Marriage was never in my future. It wasn’t my chance. Everything changed when I met Brittany.” He said, “I dated previously without thinking about it. I knew when I met Brittany. If I do it, this is it.” Taylor invited her to relocate from her Kentucky family farm to his Los Angeles apartment the following day, saying, “I just knew it was meant to be.”
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright’s Instagram
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright snap a selfie. Taylor and Cartwright uploaded a selfie on Instagram in May 2015 at a restaurant in Santa Monica, California, marking the couple’s first social media appearance together.
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright make their debut as a couple on Vanderpump Rules
Cartwright was originally introduced to viewers when Vanderpump Rules returned for season 4, and Taylor mentioned that he had found someone special while traveling to Las Vegas.
“Out of the corner of my eye, I see this beautiful girl … and I’m still looking at her,” he went on to say. “We start conversing, and I ask for her phone number. “She literally moved to Los Angeles two weeks later.”
The season began with Cartwright arriving in a vehicle full of boxes containing her belongings, and she rapidly began meeting his coworkers, including Scheana Shay and Katie Maloney. Taylor says Cartwright’s “Southern charm” “caught [him] off guard.” He went on to say, “I just haven’t seen that in so long.” Cartwright went on to make a couple of guest appearances before joining the full-time cast in season 6.
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright get a spinoff series
Bravo made the couple’s participation in the Vanderpump Rules spinoff Jax & Brittany Take Kentucky official in April 2017. The six-episode series began on Bravo on August 23, 2017, and followed the duo back to Cartwright’s hometown and family farm.
Taylor, an urbanite, struggled to fit in on the farm and pleased Cartwright’s grandmother, Mamaw. “I think my relationship with Mamaw is equivalent to my relationship with Lisa Vanderpump,” he remarked in a YouTube video of the first episode. “She’s the queen of the farm — or, in animal terms, she’s the bull.”
Jax Taylor admits to cheating on Brittany Cartwright
Taylor first refuted claims of an affair between herself and Faith Stowers, a former cast member of Vanderpump Rules, that first arose during the season 6 premiere on December 4, 2017. However, in the next week’s show, Taylor admitted to cheating on Cartwright with a former SUR coworker.
Tell me the truth. “You had sex with her?” Cartwright demanded, and Taylor said, “Yes, it’s true. Yes. It happened during a difficult period in our lives.” Taylor also said in a confessional, “This isn’t the first time I’ve been caught cheating. In the past, I’ve gone through months and months of denial, and it didn’t work for me… Brittany and I had fought for a long time. There are simply so many things. I had no idea [Faith] was going to say anything.” After Taylor revealed the truth, Cartwright warned him to “rot in hell” before leaving for Las Vegas on vacation. According to the bartender, the incident occurred eight months before it aired.
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright announce engagement
Taylor informed Cartwright on Instagram that Kyle Chan Design, a jeweler based in Los Angeles, “delivered an outstanding proposal” for her with a three-carat diamond engagement ring in May, following the conclusion of Vanderpump Rules season 6. Cartwright described her cushion-cut halo ring as “gorgeous.”
The happy pair got engaged at the oceanfront restaurant Neptune’s Net in Malibu, California. Cartwright subsequently uploaded two photographs of her ring (with her fiancé beaming in the background), promising that more will be revealed in season 7 of Vanderpump Rules.
She captioned the photos: “We are ENGAGED! What a way to start the summer and season 7!! I am overjoyed, in love, and beyond enthusiastic for the next chapter of our life! I can’t wait for you all to see how he proposed! “I am the happiest girl ever right now. Love can win 💝💝.”
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright get married
Taylor and Cartwright married at the Kentucky Castle in the bride’s home state, where 240 people saw the wonderful event. Cartwright donned a Netta BenShabu wedding gown that morphed into three distinct looks during the night, while Taylor wore a conventional Jack Victor tuxedo.
Scheana, Katie, Ariana Madix, Stassi Schroeder, Kristen Doute, and Lala Kent were among the Vanderpump Rules cast members who attended her wedding. “It feels amazing,” Cartwright tells PEOPLE exclusively ahead of the big day. “We are stronger and happier than we have ever been. We went through a lot, but we made it out on the other side. I feel like we’ve only become stronger.
Taylor said, “We know we love each other. We know we want to be together. We’re simply really thrilled. Just pretty pleased with where we are right now.”
