Taylor back on TV after six-month drugs ban as he vows fresh start

DOM TAYLOR says his “life is starting fresh again” after making his return to the TV stage with the Modus Super Series.

The Bristol thrower stepped back under the lights last night, having spent his six-month ban rebuilding his career on the ADC circuit.

Taylor, 28, was handed a suspension after testing positive for cocaine and cannabis during the 2025/26 World Championship.

But Taylor has since made major changes away from the oche and believes he is now ready to show a different side of himself.

He told Modus: “I’m feeling amazing. A lot better than what I have been. Things have changed and I am feeling good in myself.

“Especially having a practice on that stage, knowing the cameras are there, I feel it. To just feel the heat of the lights is a good feeling again.

“I’ve had to completely start again. I have new darts and changed my throw slightly. I was stacking, but now I have gone back to throwing how I used to in a way.

“No alcohol, so that is starting again majorly. It is starting fresh and my life is starting fresh again.

“Let’s see if the darts can as well. I am buzzing to get back to it to show people again it is the real me this time.

“I have shown myself the averages can still be put in. Last week in the ADC the averages were up and down and a bit inconsistent.

“But I have put in the hours and had the nice phone call Monday morning to come down. I have put the work in, so let’s see if it has paid off.

“There are a couple of nerves. Anyone who says they don’t get nervous is chatting out of their bum.

“I know I am first game on, so as soon as it’s game on, let’s see what happens.”

Taylor currently sits second in Group B in Week Three after winning two and losing two, just two points behind leader Llew Bevan.

The Tower is eventually targeting a return to the PDC through Q-School in January 2027.

Words: Aaron Nijjar

Image: Taylor Lanning