Maybe it's because we're just weeks away from a new season of Vanderpump Rules, or perhaps it's because he remains a massive douche, and some people are fascinated by that.
But whatever the case, Jax Taylor has been in the news a lot lately.
A lot of people were mighty skeptical when Jax Taylor proposed to Brittany Cartwright -- and rightfully so.
After all, Jax had been caught cheating on Brittany just months before he popped the question.
It's been less than a month since Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright tied the knot in front of friends, family, and a full camera crew.
But now, to the surprise of absolutely no one, it seems the Vanderpump Rules couple is already experiencing trouble in paradise.
Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright has officially completed their journey.
They've gone from nightmare couple ... to cantakerous exes ... to sort of stable couple ... and now all the way to the altar.
Earlier today, we reported on the sad news that Lisa Vanderpump's mother has passed away at the age of 84.
The death of Jean Vanderpump comes just one year after Lisa's brother, Mark Vanderpump, committed suicide.
The fateful wedding between Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright is nearly upon us, and the controversy has been all over Twitter.
This goes beyond people's issues with Jax. It turns out that the Kentucky pastor Jax and Brittany chose has said a lot of hateful things.
For the first six seasons of the show's run, Jax Taylor was Vanderpump Rules' resident troublemaker.
He wasn't always the show's biggest villain -- that title often belonged to James Kennedy -- but no one stirred the pot quite as effectively as Jax.
At times, the current season of Vanderpump Rules has felt like the final episodes of a long-running high school drama.
The characters we've watched party, cheat, fight, and generate endless drama for the past several years now appear much too old for such shenanigans, and the realization that it's time for a change is bittersweet.
Vanderpump Rules fans have watched Brittany Cartwright tolerate an astonishing amount of mistreatment over the years.
Mostly at the hands of her fiance, Jax Taylor, of course.
Last month, Vanderpump Rules star Jax Taylor got engaged to Brittany Cartwright.
Fans of the series were more than a little surprised, not because Jax has never really seemed like the marrying kind (although there is that), but because he's seemed to go out of his way to make Brittany's life markedly worse throughout their time together.
Back in April, we asked the following question:
Is the romance between Brittany Cartwright and Jax Taylor really over for good?
From the very start of their relationship, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright faced some pretty severe challenges, many of them resulting from what Taylor describes as his "Peter Pan complex."
Jax will soon be 39 years old, but the current season of Vanderpump Rules features some of his most batsh-t behavior yet, and Brittany has tolerated all of it ... only to get unceremoniously kicked to the curb on last night's episode.
