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Zachery Ty Bryan, 42, star of Home Improvement, has been arrested under suspicions of an alleged DUI in La Quinta, California. TMZ was first to report the arrest, which resulted in the actor booking into the John Benoit Detention Center early Saturday morning on charges of felony DUI with at least three prior offenses and misdemeanor contempt of court, online documents confirm.
A String of Incidents for ZTB
A spokesperson for the La Quinta Sheriff’s Department told TMZ that cops conducted a traffic stop just after 2 AM after they saw a vehicle they suspected of being involved in a traffic collision.
But this wasn’t merely a slap on the wrist for Bryan, who was arrested back in 2020 and faced several charges, including felony strangulation, misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree assault, and case interference. These charges came from an apparent argument with his girlfriend in their Lane County, Oregon apartment.
On July 28, 2023, Bryan was once more arrested for domestic assault, this time in Eugene, Oregon.
The Downfall of a Child Actor
Zachery Ty Bryan gained international fame for his role as Brad Taylor in the sitcom Home Improvement. The show was based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen and additionally starred Patricia Richardson, Earl Hindman, Taran Noah Smith, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. ZTB was 10 years old at the time of the show’s airing and he was 19 by the time the final episode aired in 1999.
Bryan has appeared in episodes of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Opposite Sex, Center of the Universe, and Veronica Mars.
In 2021, Bryan announced his engagement to model Johnnie Faye. They had a daughter together in 2021 and by November 2022 confirmed they were expecting twins. He has seven children overall, including two sets of twins.
He was 38 at the time of his first felony charge and appears to have taken a short hiatus from acting, his latest role coming in 2022 in Netflix’s The Guardians of Justice.
