Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Gary Coleman is a not-so-newlywed. The former "Diff'rent Strokes" star married 22-year-old Shannon Price in August on a mountaintop in Nevada, but they have been keeping their vows under wraps, the pair told "Inside Edition."
"Nobody was around but the minister, preacher, the videographers, the photographer, the helicopter pilot and us," Coleman, 40, said on Tuesday's broadcast of the program.
Coleman met Price on the set of the 2006 comedy "Church Ball." Price said it was she who proposed to Coleman, but that he surprised her on her birthday by whisking her to a mountaintop in the Valley of Fire State Park to exchange vows.
She said they kept their wedding secret because she wanted to keep being seen as her own person.
"I just want my own identity as well because I don't want to be known as Gary Coleman's wife," she said.
Coleman played down their age differences, saying "I don't have issues with age, I have issues with intelligence ... She's more intelligent than I am and that's what matters to me."
Price, who is 5-foot-7, and Coleman, who is 4-foot-8, also played down their height gap.
"That doesn't really matter to me," she said. "He was 10 feet tall to me because he was sweet and I really liked his personality."
5 comments:
They met on the blockbuster "Church Ball?" My favorite part of her whole ode to GC love is when she says that she doesn't want to be known as GC's wife. Pulls on my heart strings...
When you're with a MEGA star like GC, you gotta worry about stuff like that, man!
I also like that he states that she's more intelligent than he is, like that was somehow an issue anyone was unsure of.
If you read some other articles about this marriage, you'll find out that he has quite a temper. He once threw a fax machine because his wife was nagging him about something and the fax machine wasn't working.
I guess the honeymoon's over.
Oh, and I'm Wrestling Kitties sister!
I absolutely adore the post and these comments.
I too, am thrilled that Arnold found love.
(Wrestling Kitties is a good friend of mine that I used to work with, FYI.)
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