When news of sexual harassment allegations against sports analyst Skip Bayless broke out, one small detail that was revealed in the lawsuit was that Joy Taylor, a report for For Sports 1, allegedly brushed off the harassment woes of the plaintiff. The way one female news anchor and reporter saw it, a situation such as that is “no longer shocking.”
In one of the recent episodes of The Stephen A. Smith Show, news anchor, and reporter Tori Cooper appeared as a guest and gave insight into the recent allegations against multiple people from Fox Sports 1 that broke out from a leaked lawsuit.
Stephen A. Smith asked Cooper about her insight on the part of the lawsuit where the plaintiff, former FS1 hairstylist Noushin Faraji, alleged that Joy Taylor told her to “get over it” when she expressed her experience of sexual abuse in the workplace.
“We were not in the room, so we’ll never know,” Cooper said. These are allegations, right, I want to make sure that’s clear. Whenever we talk about topics like this we have to make sure that these are really well understood.”
“Now, on the other side of that, I will say that luckily I was in a room where someone was telling me to come forward,” she added. “But I am not shocked that other women would essentially say, look you’re dealing with Fox, this is a huge corporation, keep your hairstylist job, don’t speak up, just try to let it go and you know. I would not be shocked by that at all.”
Skip Bayless (left), photo source: @skipbayless and Joy Taylor, photo source: @joytaylortalks
The 42-page lawsuit also alleged that Joy Taylor had slept with multiple men from FS1 in exchange for better program opportunities.
Stephen A. Smith: “It’s Not The Skip I Know”
Stephen A. Smith, who has worked with Skip Bayless in the past, argued that the allegations thrown Skip’s way do not make sense to him as “it’s not the Skip I know.” Still, Stephen A. acknowledges that the issue is already an ongoing legal matter.
“All I could tell you is that it’s not the Skip Bayless I know,” Stephen A. said. “But obviously this is a legal matter. He’s going to have to deal with this because this situation doesn’t appear to be going away. I don’t know [Faraji], I don’t know [the other accused]. I know Skip and I’m very very heartbroken that he finds himself in this situation being accused of these allegations.”
Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith got to work together on ESPN’s “First Take.”
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