'Science Guy' Bill Nye is now a married guy
Liza Mundy and Bill Nye wed on the lawn of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., late last month. Credit: Getty Images for Tribeca Festival / Jamie McCarthy
Bill Nye, whose PBS program "Bill Nye the Science Guy" and its spinoffs have helped educate generations of children, quietly married journalist-author Liza Mundy late last month.
Ross Shafer, an author and former talk- and game-show host, posted photos and two videos of the ceremony and reception on Facebook on June 5, writing, "Bill Nye, my close pal of 40+ years, married the love of his life, Liz Mundy[,] last week in Wash. DC … on the lawn of the Smithsonian Castle," referring to the Enid A. Haupt Garden of the Smithsonian Institution.
Actor Robert Picardo of "Star Trek Voyager" and related series officiated. The couple chose the historic museum, Shafer said, since "Bill and Liza are both honored there. Bill as The Science Guy (his lab cost & tie are on display) and Liza, as the best selling author of CODE GIRLS (the brilliant women who broke the Enigma code to help win World War II). Bill [at the reception] even repeated the swing dancing skills he revealed in 'Dancing with the Stars,' " on which Nye competed in 2013.
The wedding went largely unnoticed until a People magazine story Wednesday. Records show Nye married musician-journalist-author Blair Tindall ("Mozart in the Jungle") on Feb. 10, 2006, but that union evidently was annulled. "We were never married," Nye told CBS the following year. "We got a letter from the State of California, with the great seal affixed, that we were never married. So shortly afterwards we both agreed it was not a good idea."
