Months Before the Pool Photos, Jax Taylor and His Wife's Publicist Were Already Spotted Together

Timeline is everything in a scandal, and the Jax Taylor and Lori Krebs story just got messier. While everyone’s been focused on the cozy Mexico pool photos that surfaced last week—the ones that torpedoed Brittany Cartwright’s relationship with her longtime publicist—there’s a whole earlier chapter that raises some serious questions about what was really going on.

Back in May, before the birthday trip to Puerto Vallarta that became the stuff of tabloid gold, Jax Taylor and Lori Krebs were already hanging out together. The Vanderpump Rules alum and Brittany Cartwright’s publicist were spotted at Flanigan’s Seafood Bar and Grill in Boca Raton on May 15, drinking soda and keeping a low profile on a Friday night. According to witnesses, they didn’t seem to want to be recognized—which, in hindsight, feels like a pretty loaded detail.

There’s a surface-level explanation: Jax was in Florida for legitimate reasons. He was doing guest speaking at mental health facilities, including Lifeskills, and serving as an ambassador for Recovery Through Repetition, a Florida-based nonprofit where he participated in a 5K run and meet-and-greet that same month. So sure, two people who move in the same circles crossing paths while one of them is in town for work could be coincidence. But when you know what happens two months later—chest-to-chest pool embraces, full-day PDA that witnesses say went beyond what cameras captured—that May bar date starts to look a lot less innocent.

Brittany Cartwright didn’t waste time once the Puerto Vallarta images hit. Lori had at least given her a heads-up before the story went live, but after that call, they haven’t spoken. The publicist who represented Brittany for years got cut loose the second the photos became public. Meanwhile, Jax and Brittany continue navigating life as co-parents to their son, Cruz, following her August 2024 divorce filing after five years of marriage.

The real kicker here isn’t just that Jax and Lori were together in Mexico—it’s that this wasn’t a sudden spark. There was history. There were earlier meetups. There was planning. The May bar outing looks less like a casual encounter and more like the beginning of something that had plenty of time to develop before it became very publicly visible. For anyone wondering how much of this was premeditated versus spur-of-the-moment chemistry, that Boca Raton timestamp might be your answer.