Home Improvement TV star Zachery Ty Bryan arrested, charged with domestic violence

The cast of Home Improvement.

Zachery Ty Bryan, star of the popular 90s TV sitcom Home Improvement, has been arrested again in the United States, the latest in a series of arrests that mark a dramatic fall from grace for the former child star.

This time Bryan, who played Brad Taylor in the show, faces charges of second-degree domestic violence after his arrest in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

TMZ reported that Bryan allegedly punched a woman multiple times and threatened to kill her during the January 1 incident, citing a police report which also states that the woman shares a child with Bryan.

Zachery Ty Bryan, seen in an arrest photo following his January 1 arrest for domestic violence. Photo / Horry County Jail

Bryan was previously arrested in 2020 in the US state of Oregon after his girlfriend alleged that he squeezed her throat with his hands during a heated argument in an apartment.

He married that woman, Johnny Faye Cartwright, one year later and the pair have three children.

He was arrested again in 2023 and charged with domestic assault.

Bryan also faced drink-driving charges twice last year in both California and Oklahoma.

Zachery Ty Bryan, third from left, as Brad Taylor in Home Improvement. Screenshot / ABC

Bryan rose to fame on Home Improvement, which ran from 1991 to 1999.

When he started on the show, playing the oldest child of Tim Allen’s Tim ‘The Tool Man’ Taylor character, he was just 9.

After the show wrapped he made smaller appearances on other shows such as Veronica Mars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, before retiring from acting in 2009.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played his younger brother Randy in the show, took a different path after he stepped away from acting.

The former tween heartthrob disappeared from public view for years after leaving the profession, eventually surfacing in 2023.

He went to university and studied philosophy and history, graduating with a degree from Columbia University in 2010.

“I’d been [acting] nonstop since I was eight years old. I wanted to go to school, to travel and have a bit of a break,” he said in 2013.

“To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool.

“It was a novel experience for me.”