Home Improvement's Zachery Ty Bryan pleads guilty to 2 felony counts in domestic violence case
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Former Home Improvement star Zachery Ty Bryan was sentenced to probation on Tuesday after pleading guilty to two felony counts.
In a statement given to People, the Lane County District Attorney in Eugene, Oregon, said Bryan entered a guilty plea for “menacing and assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence.” He’s been sentenced to 26 months of bench probation, with conditions including the program Bridges2Safety and no contact with the victim.
The initial charges from October 2020 included “two counts of menacing, two counts of assault in the fourth degree, coercion, felony strangulation, harassment, and interfering with making a report,” according to last year’s coverage by People.
This incident of domestic abuse occurred two weeks after Bryan announced in a now-deleted Instagram post that he and his wife, Carly Matros, were separating after 13 years of marriage. Bryan’s victim was his girlfriend, whose identity isn’t known. A Lane County spokesperson gave a statement to People, saying, “An investigation found that during the dispute Bryan is reported to have assaulted the victim, impeded her breathing, and taken the victim’s phone from her when she tried to call 911.” Police officers who arrived at the scene found Bryan sitting outside an apartment while the victim found shelter in a neighboring apartment.
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Clearly establishing himself as the worse Zach Bryan.
Just Googled “Zach Bryan” and found this tidbit from a press release:Zach Bryan is a singer/songwriter from Oologah, Oklahoma, proud of his small-town roots and whose music is fueled by a desire to stay true to himself.I don’t know about you, but I prefer my musicians to make music fueled by a desire to stay true to themselves, so I plan on celebrating his entire catalog!Also, was his hometown named as an homage to old-timey car horns?
LISTEN TO IT ALL! That kid is absurdly talented – his sound is pretty much“Jason Isbell produced by Elephant 6.”
Oh, sweet! I’ll definitely check it out. Elephant 6? Yes, please! Jason Isbell? Yes, please!Here I am, being all snarky about a press release written by someone at Warner Brothers, and it turns out the dude rocks. Thanks for the rec!
Update: Three songs into DeAnn and really enjoying Zach Bryan. I’m very new to the genre of country/alt-country/guy-and-an-acoustic, and this is a promising entry in my nascent journey.
If you like Zach, you’ll love John Moreland and Turnpike Troubadours!His next two projects add a bit more execution and instrumentation, without losing the grit – kid’s crazy talented.
Excellent, thanks!
On the poppier side, William Clark Green answers the question “What if Tom Petty was from Texas” and Jade Bird shows what Alanis would sound like if she grew up on Taylor Swift and Sheryl Crow, haha.(Discovered both of them as openers…and have seen them more since than the folks they opened for!)
…and Katie Pruitt is just the homie. No other description required.
All right, sir, you have set me up for a nice weekend of listening. Thanks!
It’s named after a Cherokee chief, it’s about 2 miles from where Will Rogers was born. He told people he was from further away Claremore, OK because “nobody but an Indian can pronounce ‘Oologah.’”
Huh. Learn something new every day. Thanks!
I prefer musicians who are in an eager rush to escape their horrible home towns, and whose music is fueled by a desire to please listeners and so make a ton of money.
Exactly! Like Bryan Zach.
I hope Wilson has some good advice.
“ Police officers who arrived at the scene found Bryan sitting outside an apartment while the victim found shelter in a neighboring apartment.”Wilson was protecting his girlfriend!
That is a Wilson thing to do
Fuck ‘em! He sill abandoned Tom Muther Fucking Hanks in his most moment of need. FUCK. HIM.
That fence must be stronger than it looks.
Wilson will be covering his face to stop the punches.
Hello, I’m Hope Wilson. Unfortunately, I have no good advice for this scenario. Perhaps you could try my cousins, The Spirit of Christmas Might-Have-Been, the Spirit of Chanukah Yet-to-Come or Owen Wilson.
Probation for two felonies seems…strange?
yea, i was going to comment…felonies…two…probation…
It means he saved some money for a rainy day.And now an attorney has that money to blow on coke.
you don’t blow the money ON coke, you blow coke WITH the money
A lot jails don’t want people now because of covid. Domestic violence cases rarely get lengthy jail time depending on case history. The legal system is uneven that way.
Fair enough on the COVID, but it’s not even house arrest.
Maybe his TV Dad taught him how to rat out others to get an easier sentenceAlso while not famous anymore he may still be rich, and laws work different for the rich
Absolutely, and when it comes to celebrities, former or current, it’s to the point of frustration. In a system that lets a Hollywood director get a slap on the wrist for allowing the gruesome deaths of a man and two young children (two young children who were on the site illegally), sadly this is no surprise.
Shitty as it sounds, in theory he’s only a threat to her in the eyes of the court. 3 years of probation and an order to stay the fuck away from her while getting the usual recommended therapy and counseling would seemingly remedy that. It’s a three-year “don’t fuck up” order that’s consistent with someone with little to no history with the courts in COVID times.
He’s also a threat to any other woman he goes out with in that three years. Meanwhile weed dealers are serving 20 years and they’re a threat to exactly no one. As for his “little to no history,” I highly doubt this is the first time he’s done something like this.
And people who shoplift are threats to every store, so let’s ban them from shopping.
One unjust law doesn’t mean every law has to be equally bad. Maybe fix the weed laws, like what’s already happening in many states.
It would not be “unjust” to put a violent man who has done actual physical violence in prison. It is unjust to put non-violent people whose crimes have harmed no one in prison. They even put the college admissions scandal folks in prison. You’re focusing on the wrong thing. If it’s a felony, there should be felony penalties. If it’s not dire enough to require serving time, don’t make it a felony. Furthermore, this rich, famous, white man gets a slap on the wrist for assaulting a woman. What does this say about the value of a woman’s safety and her place in society? The fact that there are people who see literally no problem with this is why he’s walking away from this.
“He’s also a threat to any other woman he goes out with in that three years.”
Is he? I don’t recall reading his wife’s domestic abuse allegations.
He’s white.
He sure is.
Sounds about white, a rich story.
I know we shouldn’t judge on looks, but it’s comforting when every now and then you get a guy who you take one look at and think, “Yep, that right there is an abusive piece of shit.”
My first thought on reading that headline is that if someone had told me during the heyday of Home Improvement that this actor would turn out to bean abuser, my immediate thought would be, “That checks out.”
I would have assumed that about Tim Allen actually.
no, he’s just a failed cocaine smuggler and right-wing whiny pissbaby
Tim Allen seems like the indecent exposure/uncomfortable joking to young female coworkers type to me more than anything
The fact that there aren’t at least a few MeToo stories about him is stunning.
And the “It was just a joke!” response to anything that anyone objected to guy.
My first thought was “which one is he?”
If he ain’t JTT then I don’t know.
The dumb one.
He played pretty much exactly that role in a one-off on the last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (appropriately enough) too.
Yeah he has real resting asshole face. Honestly even when he was a kid on the show, he always had a look about him. Like he was the kid on the playground bullying everyone else.
Half the reason Home Improvement was so unwatchable to me back in the day was the way the casting people for that show seem to have actually been deliberately looking for the douchiest teen dudes to play the kids that they could possibly find.
Hopefully the other half was that the show wasn’t in any way entertaining.
That too.
My late husband liked it because he said Tim Taylor was the only TV husband he knew that always made him (my late mate) look good.
Sure he’s most well-known for Home Improvement, but I will always remember him as “the guy who got his balls shot off with a harpoon gun” in The Rage: Carrie 2. Because he has always looked like a guy you’d want to see get his balls shot off with a harpoon gun.
Well, if I got to pick what I’d be remembered for
He did play an entitled creep (who tries to sacrifice a classmate) in an episode of Buffy and I remember thinking, “Yeah, I can see that.”
He was also an entitled shit who engaged multiple hitmen to kill his philanthropist stepmother in Burn Notice. He got shot. No one was sad.
Turns out he is a prick, but you take comfort in that? Odd.
Having one’s suspicions confirmed is comforting, no?
I took it as taking comfort in their jerk radar being accurate.
I’ve definitely run into a few people with “abuser face” on them and I’m usually right, though I hate to judge on looks.
He was getting typecast as a high school bully well into his 20’s.
“He was getting typecast as a high school bully well into his 20’s.”
Ah yes. He played a bully *looks it up* once?
It’s nice to knw you’re comforted by knowing someone abuses women.
Tim Allen’s show must be called Last Man Standing because he’s the only one whose career survived Home Improvement.
Richard Karn and Patricia Richardson seems to have found steady work on the guest starring/Hallmark movie circuit.
Hey, nice work if you can get it. I doubt any of them are hurting for money.
Oh, definitely not judging. Home Improvement ran for so long and I’m guessing got a pretty large syndication package, so the principle cast members were probably set for life regardless.
Richard Karn popped up on a Hallmark Christmas movie a few months ago. If he managed to convince some casting agent that he’s capable of portraying some ruthless multimillionaire real estate developer, then all the more power to him.
Shit, that’s all I want out of life. To be famous, but like guest star famous or bit player in a tv movie so I get noticed, but not every time I go out.
Patricia Richardson moved on to Strong Medicine in the early 00’s, a recurring role on West Wing, and has been in over a dozen TV movies in the past decade.Richard Karn is in four projects that are either filming or recently completed but not released, was in the series PEN15 and Ctrl, lots and lots and lots of TV movies, was the host of Family Feud for a few years, and if you’ve watched any TV over the past decade or so, has seen he’s been doing commercials for a long, long time.
Bryan and JTT had somewhat decent careers into the 00’s, but around 2007 or 2008 the market dried up for both of them, though JTT found a recurring role on Last Man Standing.
Didn’t JTT deliberately step away from acting? He was the Zac Efron of his time and I feel like he could’ve become an A-list movie star if he really wanted to.
He did it during Home Improvement’s run, skipping the final two seasons, I believe.
He’s just waiting for his 2028 presidential campaign –
Finding out Zachary Ty Bryan is an abusive asshole is, uh, not surprising. Dude gives off serious “you know, I don’t always agree with Alex Jones, but he has a point…” vibes.
Every time I see that jackass (I refuse to look up his name) that made the video showing the dead body in the suicide forest, I think it’s this guy
I’m sure that suffering little repercussion from 2 felonies will help him off of the MisInfoWars/Faux News brainwashing path.
He thought the judge said “26 months of beach probation”
That’s a far more flattering photo of him than most news outlets are using.
Man, that’s some serious coke bloat.
TIL that being so skinny your skeleton is clearly visible under the skin equals “bloat”.
For those curious, his last acting role was apparently in the made-for-TV movie Thor (not that one): Hammer of the Gods as the titular character.
He was also Clay in Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Caz Truman in Veronica Mars, and many, many one-offs in shows like Burn Notice, K-Ville, Cold Case, and the 2009 Knight Rider.
He should have pleaded :
He’s lucky his career was already over 20 years ago.
Not directly related, but why do so many child actors go by three names?On Home Improvement alone, the kids were played by Zachery Ty Bryan, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and Taran Noah Smith. That’s a whopping nine names (8 of them first names!) among only three actors!When I looked into it in the past, I saw answers talking about SAG rules about how no two actors can have the same name, but that doesn’t seem right to me since I don’t know of any other actors names Zachery Bryan, Jonathan Thomas, or Taran Smith without the middle names.
Child actors and assassins. Or for John Wilkes Booth, both
Lee Harvey Oswald would like a word.
Given their ages, I always assumed the parents or agents decided how the kids’ names would be listed in the credits, and used full names by default.
I went to high school with a guy named Smith Johnson, fwiw
It might be an actor’s union thing. It could be that their first and last names are already taken by other members, and they’re too young to want to change their names.
The SAG registers include people who have done commercials and webseries.
“I don’t know of any other actors names Zachery Bryan, Jonathan Thomas, or Taran Smith without the middle names.”
Did you tell them that? Maybe they’ll change his name. I’m sure they don’t have any sort of huge database of names that they can reference but hey, even if they do I’m sure that it is not as well researched as your entirely baseless assumption.
“since I don’t know of any other actors names…”I guess that just goes to show that most actors aren’t famous enough for us to recognize their names, but if they get their SAG card then their names are on the list.
We also need to consider people that went by their middle name but THAT was already listed with SAG so they have to bring back their real first name.
In the 80’s it was a lot of people using their middle initial, but I guess they used all the letters. 😉
Since when do District Attorneys announce their findings in gossip columns?
He looks kind of like Gordon Ramsay. Also Tim Allen must be happy to not be the worst human being on Home Improvement anymore…I think….
Even before I saw the picture I was like, “I bet that’s Brad!”
He’s got crazy eyes