Kristen Doute has kept her distance from former The Valley costar Jax Taylor after he stepped away from the series ahead of season 3. "I had him blocked for a while because I didn't want to be the recipient of the rage text," Kristen, 42, exclusively told Us Weekly on Saturday, November 2025, while attending BravoCon 2025 in Las Vegas. "I decided to unblock him just in case I needed to be there [as] a buffer for Brittany [Cartwright]. I haven't heard from him in months.