Some Ex-'Bachelorette' Contestant is Claiming He's Getting Blackmailed Over an (Alleged) Affair With Nick Saban's Daughter, So He Had to Go Public With It
This guy who's dressed like the member of an entourage in a low budget 1990s sex comedy they show in the bar at ski resorts was apparently a contestant on Season 12 of The Bachelorette. From the show's Fandom Page:
Would you describe yourself as "the party-starter," "the wingman" or "the laid back one"?
Party-starter all day!
What are your three best attributes?
Funny, outgoing, kind.
There's more, but the time I spent on that page was like exposure to the kinds of radiation that damage your brain tissue. So that much will do. You get the point.
Well it seems James McCoy Taylor's party-starting, funny, outgoing kindness has its limits. And he reached them by exposing a relationship he claims he's been having with Nick Saban's married daughter:
The Spun - Nick Saban's daughter Kristen has seemingly responded to cheating allegations on Instagram.
On Tuesday … Taylor said in a lengthy Instagram post that he flew out to Birmingham two months ago to meet up with Kristen only to find out she was still married.
"She picked me up and we drove to Tuscaloosa. Three days later she tells me she’s still married and living with her husband," Taylor said. "I was shocked and pissed that this wasn’t made known to me before I came to visit. I verbalized that to Kristen. She said she thought it was respectful to tell me in person… I told her this isn’t a break up. This can and should be done on the phone."
In the post, Taylor shared three photos of himself with Kristen Saban, whose marriage name is Setas, including one of the two of them kissing.
He went on to allege that someone had been blackmailing him about the photos and was threatening to send them to TMZ and "tell them I’m a cheater and a home-wrecker goin to meet married women and a liar etc."
Late Tuesday night, Kristen Saban posted a cryptic Instagram story with what seemed to be a message about the drama unfolding. …
"Next time someone tries to bring you down, remember. Confidence is quiet, insecurity is loud."
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This is one of those stories that exists in the middle of a Venn Diagram of things that are not in my areas of expertise. The Bachelorette. Blackmail. Possible infidelity. The personal lives of these two people. And I gave a lot of thought to simply giving this a good leaving alone.
But there are also subsets of that Diagram I do think I'm qualified to discuss. Nick Saban. Celebrity culture, which factors in since Kristen Saban has a pretty active social media presence. Scandal, which is a big part of what we talk about here. And douchebags. I pride myself on the years I've spent in the field, researching members of America's Oversharing Party Starter Community like Jane Goodall studying the great apes in their native habitats.
For starters, I do not think you should cheat on your spouse. First, because Moses only brought 10 Commandments down from Sinai, and that's violating 20% of them. But that's not for me to judge. The higher authority that carved those tablets also gave you free will, so answer to Him. And you're answerable to anyone else who's name appears on your tax returns. Plus in this case, the greatest college football coach to ever live. I stay out of it.
But at the same time, doesn't a sort of spirit of cooperation apply to these situations? Isn't there a mutual obligation here? An implied (pardon the pun) oral contract, saying you'll keep this between yourselves, instead of blowing up the married person's life? It's unseemly and ungentlemanly to go running to your followers on the 'Gram at the first hint of getting exposed. Not to mention posting the evidence. I mean sure, the cheater betrayed the commitment they made to another person. But does that mean everybody should? Is there no honor among thieves, as it were?
Besides, the timing of this is suspect, to say the very least. Funny how that "blackmail" Taylor is claiming just happened to coincide with Kristen (allegedly) breaking it off with him. What an amazing longshot that was. Just as he gets his heart stomped on by someone he had dirt on, someone came out of the weeds threatening to expose that very dirt. So naturally, he agonized over what to do about it. And his solution was to get out ahead of it. Taking the bat out of the hands of this secret sleuth who uncovered their terrible secret. While at the same time getting to brag about supposedly banging this person who's more famous than him. All at the low-low cost of destroying her life. Funny and outgoing? Perhaps. Kind? Definitely not.
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Just to drill down a bit more before I go take a Brian Fantana shower to get the scumbag smell out of my pores, there are Twitter accounts claiming they have the DM evidence that, while this affair might have happened, Kristen Saban hasn't been all that married for a while, and this Taylor is just a garden variety stalker:
Including my coworker Jack Mac:
So make of all of this what you will. But until we hear otherwise, my moral possession arrow goes to Kristen Saban, who seems to have made a bad judgment call getting involved with this wannabe celebrity/fame chaser.
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"Confidence is quiet; Insecurity is loud," indeed.