Kari Elizabeth Byron (born December 18, 1974) is a San Francisco-based artist and television host, best known for her featured role on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters.
On the show MythBusters, Byron is featured along with fellow Build Team members Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara and also assists as co-hosts for Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman in testing the plausibility of various myths. She became involved in the show after persistently show...
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Kari Elizabeth Byron (born December 18, 1974) is a San Francisco-based artist and television host, best known for her featured role on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters.
On the show MythBusters, Byron is featured along with fellow Build Team members Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara and also assists as co-hosts for Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman in testing the plausibility of various myths. She became involved in the show after persistently showing up at Hyneman's M5 Industries workshop in a desire to get hired at his company. On her first day as a paid employee, she was asked by Hyneman and MythBusters producer Peter Rees to help out with the "vacuum plane toilet" myth, and she was asked to model her buttocks for a cast. She was given a more prominent role in the show starting with its second season. Not having had a long history in show business, at first she found it hard to act naturally with this more visible position but gradually became more used to it.
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