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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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106. Bill Nye is to cool. He Showed me some great bar tricks. When I asked him where he learned them . He replied in a bar. So there you go he is worthy of TMZ. :)

Posted at 10:47AM on Nov 24th 2007 by kathy johnson

107. I watched "Bill Nye the Science Guy" when my oldest son (now 20) was growing up. He made science fun and interesting. Too bad it seems Bill flunked Chemistry to figure out too late this lady is not for him...

Posted at 12:40AM on Nov 21st 2007 by luvbillnyethescienceguy

108. I thought that film stars liked to have their photos taken.

Posted at 12:54AM on Nov 21st 2007 by frenchpug

109. Quick call Jeff Bimmel from "The Daily Dealer" this sounds like a case for SPEEDWALKER. Seattle Almost Live reference.

Posted at 1:04AM on Nov 21st 2007 by bob77

110. I'm confused. why would a Christian pastor like Rick Warren perform a fake wedding ceremony for these people? Makes no sense to me!

Posted at 1:07AM on Nov 21st 2007 by Kassie

111. You should really leave the part about Rick Warren out of the story. His book repels this type of behavior. Apparently the Purpose Driven Life has now been sabotaged by the Purpose Driven Wife!

Posted at 2:11AM on Nov 21st 2007 by Wild Stuff

112. Too bad we can't just have all the nuts locked up. I can think of a few that should be in a rubber room. Sounds like his Mrs. should be one of them.
He gave someone a rose? God, tar and feathers quick.!!!!

Posted at 3:07AM on Nov 21st 2007 by moonwind

113. I nust be missing something here - if they were married, why ford the article call her his "faux" wife & "pseudo " wife? I didn'y see the show where they got married - what was "curious" about the ceremony?

Posted at 5:05AM on Nov 21st 2007 by lilpeanut

114. Now, that's what I call real science, Bill!

Posted at 5:05AM on Nov 21st 2007 by Martie911

115. #'s 4,6,7,8,9&12 You are a bunch of idoit right wing repukes.This is about Bill Nye not the best president we ever had, Bill Clinton. Your repuke prez stole the presidency from the dems. All of you repukes say it's about family values but you sure have a lot of homos in office. Liars...

Posted at 5:34AM on Nov 21st 2007 by Britt Fan

116. SO TRUE GYPSY. ALWAYS THE WAY IT IS... AND 90% NEVER WORKS WHEN IT'S LIKE THAT.

SHIRL GIRL

Posted at 5:53AM on Nov 21st 2007 by ShirlGirl

117. I actually knew Blair Tindall back in the 80s when were both playing in NY orchestras together (she, oboe; I, bassoon). Then she went to journalism school and for a time was writing respectable pieces for the Sunday NYTimes. Then she wrote that awful Mozart in the Jungle and it all started to go south in a big way. Sad, really...

Posted at 10:04AM on Nov 21st 2007 by pippo

118. Actually, I hear she's got more money than he does from her own resources, so there goes the gold-digger theory. Besides, how much money could Nye have these days? The show's been off the air for years and rumor has it Disney bought him out.

If you read the wife's statement at The Smoking Gun, you can see how she could be pretty pissed off. She's the one who found the house, they bought that house/garden together, and she had to co-sign the mortgage because of his bad credit. They were just moving in together when their marriage license came back invalid, and he ordered her not to move in. She signed over the house to him without understanding she was still on the mortgage. Months later she discovered she was still financially liable for a house owned and occupied by a man who led her on. Add in a serious injury, one parent dying and another ill all the way across the country, and you've got somebody hopping mad, and not thinking straight. In the statement, she said that on TV she saw Nye standing in their rose garden and complaining about not having a woman to share his house with. That's when the phantom weed-whacker hit.

Posted at 12:41PM on Nov 21st 2007 by Good Weed

119. And you can watch their wedding with Rick Warren here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n3fLpJz1_g

Posted at 12:45PM on Nov 21st 2007 by Good Weed

120. You can read the wife's statement here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1119071nye8.html

Posted at 12:58PM on Nov 21st 2007 by Good Weed

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