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"The Science Guy" Wants to Send "Wife" to the Moon

Bill NyeBill Nye "The Science Guy" is asking a Los Angeles County judge for protection from his faux wife, after she pulled a late night raid on his flower and produce gardens. One needn't be scientific to know that marriage isn't going well!

TMZ obtained a request for a temporary restraining order, first reported by The Smoking Gun, filed by Nye against his pseudo-wife of just one year, Blair Tindall. In the handwritten documents, Bill claims his estranged gal showed up at his Studio City home on Labor Day, dressed in black and armed with two large bottles "filled with some sort of solvent" to do damage to his garden, which he says provides "food produce."

And it gets crazier!

Nye also alleges that the herbicide was "quite toxic" and thought Tindall might have squirted him in the eyes with it had she gotten closer. Not very Nyes!

Tindall responded to the order by describing the midnight bad vegetables incident as a "foolish, sophomoric act of poor judgment" brought on by a series of personal and family problems. Blair explained that the reason for the attack was that she saw their rose garden on the "Living with Ed" TV show. She claims Nye picked a rose and gave it to Ed Begley's wife on the show and discussed how he had no woman in his life. She also strongly denied being a threat to Nye, and accuses him of "emotional cruelty." The out of orbit couple "wed" last February in a curious ceremony officiated by Pastor Rick Warren, author of "The Purpose Driven Life."


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76. I love Bill Nye!! My kids and I used to watch him all the time, funny guy!

Posted at 12:35PM on Nov 20th 2007 by good girl

77. I love Bill Nye's Show it made science fun for kids. I loved Beakmans world too. I am glad they are not fighting. Imagine what a mess Lester the rat could make of his garden.
I heard Bush mixed up the chemicals for Mrs. Nye. See it is all Bush's fault.

Posted at 12:46PM on Nov 20th 2007 by Steve

78. Mariette,

I agree with with what you wrote, however, in this instance, the facts have been "spun". Please read Ms Tindall's declaration which can be accessed through the smoking gun post. If you read what she wrote you will understand why I wrote what I did.

-Annie Stein

Posted at 12:55PM on Nov 20th 2007 by Annie Stein

79. why send her to the moon , we have enought junk up there.

Posted at 1:17PM on Nov 20th 2007 by Dee dee

80. ex's commit regrettable actions all the time without some political agenda. what a bunch mental midgets. that's the problem too much thought not enough common sense

Posted at 1:24PM on Nov 20th 2007 by bcinfla

81. so the Blair witch strikes again.

Posted at 1:43PM on Nov 20th 2007 by docdeal

82. I used to love this show in the early days...I guess it was "bad chemistry" between mr and mrs Science Guy, he'll have to come up with an antidote...

Posted at 1:55PM on Nov 20th 2007 by suzana

83. 8.

5 - very clever 5 - you are a radical neoliberal & fem & Dem - a friend of a friend attended one of your SRO fem & Dem concert reunion fund raisers & then was thrown out.

lets add some S&M and maybe some BDSM and then you can have a Dom and a Domme and cant be friends with a sub..........

Posted at 2:11PM on Nov 20th 2007 by dontworryaboutmyname

84. So, why didn't they charge her with theft, if she took a pea? Or, maybe she was after the 20 carrots he had offered her...

Posted at 2:04PM on Nov 20th 2007 by veggie guy

85. The book is "Mozart In The Jungle." Pretty good.

Posted at 2:17PM on Nov 20th 2007 by nonnobis1

86. Nyeeeeaaaaahhhnn... she wasn't after the garden, his okras and zucchini, she was after the High-Grade Blueberry/Trainwreck he has growing on the hydroponics in the old '50's bomb shelter under the house.

Posted at 2:42PM on Nov 20th 2007 by jamesnpost

87. So I've bumped into Bill quite a few times when he was just a local Seattle TV personality. His skits were always pretty funny on the sketch comedy show called "Almost Live" (such as "Speed Walker", a super hero who fights crime while adhering to the standards of competitive speed-walking), but in person he was always no fun. He was always growling and pissy about people being near him, no matter if he was in a bar, on the street or in a restaurant. Sorry, bub, but you go places like that and GASP! there are PEOPLE!!!! Don't get your unbleached organically-grown cotton tighty-whities in a bunch if someone wants to order a drink at the bar and you happen to be in the same spot.

It seemed to me at the time that he was in a Cali state of mind (meaning he thought the world revolved around him). If physics formed out of people's thoughts about themselves, then SoCal would be full of mini-universes that were populated by only one being each. Let's just hope that another "Almost Live" alum, Joel McHale, doesn't go down the same ego-paved path. I love him!

Posted at 8:50PM on Nov 21st 2007 by Seattle Chick

88. Bill Nye was, nay IS, the greatest science guy ever. Shame what's happening to him.

Posted at 10:58PM on Nov 20th 2007 by Anonymous Bill Nye Fan

89. OMG!! Ya'll I thought he died a long time ago...........

Posted at 8:13PM on Nov 20th 2007 by F-ck TMZ

90. I love the news. Everyday some woman is trying to snuff out some guy. I wonder why.

Posted at 8:25PM on Nov 20th 2007 by Shalo

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