Joy Taylor has dropped the bombshell that she is considering retiring from sports media altogether.
The personality was brutally dropped by Fox Sports as part of a network shake-up in July.
Her show Speak was axed, along with Breakfast Ball and The Facility — two others where she was a regular contributor.
It was widely expected that Taylor would seek media opportunities away from FS1.
But in an appearance on the High Learning podcast, she suggested that her love for the job was on the decline.
“Overall, the saying, ‘It doesn’t feel like work’ is when you’re doing something that you actually enjoy. I think what happened to me this year took that away from me,” Taylor said.
“I don’t know if I’ll get that back. I might, maybe like when the callous forms over the wound and you get away from things.
“But right now, it doesn’t feel that way. It doesn’t feel exciting.
“Like the big dreams seem like, ‘I’m going to do it but I’m not as excited about it.’
“And that’s kind of s***** because this has been a lot of work and a lot of passion. But it’s been something that I think has come naturally to me because I enjoy it.
“But the building the work of it all, it doesn’t feel the same. Like the dream now is to just disappear.”
Taylor, whose comments left the door open to a return, began her sports media career in 2009 on Miami radio stations.
She joined FS1 in 2016 and remained until her release.
Taylor was named in a lawsuit by a former Fox Sports employee earlier this year and was taken off air for two weeks from February to March.
The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand revealed that Taylor’s shows were axed after struggling for ratings.
“Taylor is out at Fox Sports as part of a series of moves that will also see the network’s cable arm, FS1, cancel ‘Speak,’ the show Taylor co-hosts, as well as its two morning programs,” he wrote.
“The three shows struggled to find a huge audience, prompting the cancellations, according to sources briefed on the decision.”
Taylor was one of the co-hosts on Speak along with Keyshawn Johnson and Paul Pierce.
Craig Carton, Mark Schlereth, Danny Parkins, Emmanuel Acho, LeSean McCoy, Chase Daniel, James Jones and Michael Irvin are all affected by the cancellations.
Per Front Office Sports, all three of the shows were created by former FS1 boss Charlie Dixon.
Dixon left Fox in April, months after he was named in lawsuits from former host Julie Stewart-Binks and ex-hairstylist Noushin Faraji.
Taylor was named in the latter suit and denied the allegations.