During an uncensored special all the way back in Season 1 of Vanderpump Rules, Jax Taylor revealed that he was planning to become a firefighter. "If it wasn't for, I'd have to say Stassi [Schroeder] and Lisa Vanderpump, I'd be in Florida right now fighting fires," he said with a laugh during the special (via Bravo). But let's back up a bit.
Before moving to Hollywood to make his name, Taylor "joined the Navy because he had nothing else," Complex reports. He trained at a Virginian base and was ultimately stationed in Kosovo. After serving for three years, Taylor returned home to Michigan, was scouted in a K-Mart, traveled around the world for modeling gigs, and eventually headed to Los Angeles.
While appearing on Heather McDonald's Juicy Scoop podcast in 2019, the former Vanderpump Rules star revealed that he was at a major crossroads when the show came around. "I was living paycheck to paycheck, I'm just not happy with things," he recalled. "... Maybe I should go back to Florida and be a firefighter." Taylor took the bartending gig at Sur simply because he needed the money. He still wasn't sold, though, admitting to having just $1,000 to his name from his father, and having packed his truck up to leave just days before finally signing on to Vanderpump Rules.
The rest is history, but if things had gone slightly differently, we might have missed out on one of the greatest reality TV stars of our generation.
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