Former Fox Sports analyst Marcellus Wiley is one of many former Fox Sports employees weighing in on the allegations involving his one-time colleague Joy Taylor.
Wiley used his YouTube platform to respond to a lawsuit by Noushin Faraji, one of the network’s former hair stylists.
Wiley specifically went in on the allegations against Taylor, who allegedly slept with Wiley’s former Speak For Yourself co-host, Emmanuel Acho, in an attempt to advance her career.
It turns out that he may have already had some insight into a romance weeks before this lawsuit was filed.
In a video posted to his YouTube account on December 27, Marcellus Wiley began to hint that something big was brewing at his old stomping grounds.
Wiley said the network may have rotated its lineup due to ‘romance’ behind the scenes causing problems.
‘I have more anonymous unnamed source[d] stories in my head right now than I do real stories. For real. Because real stories happen in real-time, and they are just real; they come and go,’ Wiley said in the episode.
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‘But the ones I gotta tuck and save and use up RAM on are these anonymous, unnamed sources. Like this one, [is this] B.S. or this is real, tell me what you think: well, there was a lineup shift at FS1 and it was motivated by romance. Everyone had to move around because it was getting a little contentious, it was getting a little flirtatious, it was getting a little crazy.’
‘Why would I ever report that, right? … It’s anonymous sources, unnamed sources, they don’t wanna be known, and I don’t know if it’s real.
‘Cause think about it: if that is true, was I in the building? Nope. Do I know the people? Yeah. But do I know them well enough in their private moments to know that this happened? No. Could I ask them? Yeah. Would they deny it or accept it? Deny it.’
Around ten days later, it turned out that his sources were indeed correct.
Marcellus Wiley Considering His Own Lawsuit Against Fox
Former NFL star and Fox Sports analyst Marcellus Wiley addressed the allegations of the alleged romantic relationship between FS1 hosts Joy Taylor, Fox Sports executive Charlie Dixon, and Emmanuel Acho.
Dixon, Taylor, and Skip Bayless were named as defendants in a bombshell workplace misconduct lawsuit filed by former Fox Sports hairstylist Noushin Faraji.
Taylor allegedly had sexual relationships with Acho and Dixon with the hope that it would advance her career.
Wiley addressed the allegations with Jason Whitlock.
Wiley says he’s currently considering taking legal action of his own.
Wiley, who worked for Fox between 2018 and 2022, was a co-host on Speak for Yourself. Once he left in 2022, the show was rebranded with Taylor and LeSean McCoy. These days, Taylor now co-hosts Speak with Keyshawn Johnson and Paul Pierce.
Marcellus Wiley told Whitlock that he’s being contacted by lawyers who think he has an actionable case related to how his time with FS1 ended.
“People have reached out to me, let me just be real about that. People are coming at me from a lot of different directions, including legally saying, ‘Marcellus, take another look at what you went through,'” said Wiley. “I’m trying to take that look right now. Because I know of the influences that were around me. I know what they offered me. When I say ‘offered,’ I’m being loose with this. Because as you look back on it, you start to realize the first thing they said to me is, ‘We’re not doing that show again. And we’re not doing it with you. So now we want to do something with you, what can that be?’ But that, right there in itself, became a tornado of nothing. We just went around in a bunch of circles to the point where I said, ‘It’s time for me to bet on myself, because I feel like I’m getting the run-around here.'”
“Lawyers are reaching out to me. Because when they saw me get surprised by the allegations, especially the one about Charlie Dixon, they said, ‘That is actionable.’ Now, I’m trying to make sure that everything that I went through, and everything that I read in that article, is actually true. … Look, I’ve been two years removed from it. I didn’t try to burn down Emmanuel Acho, knowing that he was plotting. Joy Taylor? I still see her all the time. I wasn’t trying to burn her down—even though I knew she was plotting. To me, that’s just like going to coach after the game saying, ‘Hey, you know, if you give me the ball, I’ll get more yards.’ But if you bring it from another perspective, that coach is actually doing something on the side, and that’s influencing his decision more than just the production, the numbers, that’s a different conversation.”
