LANCE Bass said his friend Jax Taylor will be fired from Vanderpump Rules.
The Bravolebrity has recently been accused of racist and transphobia claims.
Lance said on his podcast, The Daily Popcast with Lance Bass: “He will lose out. I do not see Bravo keeping him.
“I have a feeling soon this will be done. It gets bigger and bigger.”
Last week, Bravo fired Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute from Vanderpump Rules.
This follows former castmember, Faith Stowers, accusing Stassi and Kristen of reporting her to the police for a crime she did not commit in 2018.
Jax had also tweeted of Faith: “She’s wanted by the police for grand theft auto and ‘awol’ from military, bad idea to be on a reality show dude.
“Someone’s going to jail.”
In addition, 90 Day Fiance star Ashley Martson has spoken out to fire Jax for a past "racist" comment he made about her husband, Jay Smith.
She posted on Instagram: "Did y’all see bravo fired four cast members?
"Well @bravotv don’t leave out old Jax Taylor who harassed us when our show first aired."
VPR alum, Billie Lee, who is transgender, has accused him of being transphobic.
Last week Billie tweeted at the network: “What about Jax Taylor?
“He refused to film with me because I was trans and called him out on his white cis privilege.
“Stop celebrating his disgusting actions,” she fired off along with a “cancel Jax Taylor” hashtag.
Last year, Billie told In Touch when she first joined the Vanderpump Rules, the cast told her not to talk to Jax.
“When it comes to Jax, there were some things that I overheard him say off-camera that I thought was very alarming,” she said to the magazine.
Lance, who officiated Jax and Brittany Cartwright's wedding last summer, relayed he's spoken with Jax about some of the recent accusations.
He said: “I actually had a conversation about this yesterday and I feel like I’m the only person he [Jax] heard it from.
“He’s like, ‘I don’t understand this big nose thing.’ He goes, ‘Jewish people have big noses’
"Yeah — you can’t make fun of Jewish people or black people by their nose.”
But Lance's husband, Michael “Turkey” Turchin argued on the podcast: “The fact that a grown man in his 40s doesn’t know now that it’s racist to comment on a black person’s big nose, especially on a public platform for everyone to see?
"There’s no excuse for that. You know that’s wrong.
Michael added Jax has said some “very ignorant, homophobic things.”
Lance said: “It’s going to cost him everything.
“He’s stepping down from [our] Just Add X [business venture]. We can’t be involved and associated with any of this going down. We have to do the right thing.”
Jax and Lance are founding partners in the drink mixer company, Just Add X.
But despite Lance claiming Jax stepped down, his rep said he is still very much a part of the company.
The rep told E! News: “Last week, the Just Add X website had been hacked, showcasing some hateful slurs, which Jax felt horrible about.
“In an emotional state, Jax had texted Lance and the Just Add X team offering to step down from the company if that was the direction they wanted to take.
“The team immediately followed up with a phone call with Lance and the team reassured and fully supported him.
“It was decided that Jax would continue to stay on the team and that they all had his back given these unpredictable times.”
Jax's rep added he is shocked by Lance's claims.
“The statements from Lance on the podcast today are not only untrue but also extremely confusing and shocking, to say the least.
“Jax is still very much a partner and founder of Just Add X and supports the team and the brand whole-heartedly.
“This has been a tough time for everyone involved, especially with the critical state of Brittany’s mother in the ICU, their focus has been on that.”
Last week Faith Stowers said on Us Weekly’s Watch With Us podcast of how Bravo has handled some of the castmembers' racist allegations: “I just think it’s not fair to have two people who are very big on their platform, and benefit from the platform, go through something like this for their benefit and everyone else’s benefit because they’re benefiting by being able to take time to themselves and learn, educate themselves.
Faith went on: “I think there are other people that should be educated as well because they’ve made some pretty crazy mistakes and said some crazy — not even mistakes.
“They just said some terrible things.”
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