Gary Coleman, 41, has the “Whatchu Talkin ’bout” face in his latest mugshot for yet another domestic incident at his home in Santaquin, Utah. The troubled former child actor was taken in for “one count of domestic assault” and for a prior arrest warrant and put in jail on $1,725 bail. The last we heard from Gary he was talking about the seizure he suffered right before a meeting with producers of a new exploitative film that’s now available on DVD, Midgets vs. Mascots. Gary was about to protest new footage on the DVD that showed him fully nude, which he later claimed wasn’t him and was a “body double [that] is ugly, and is unattractive, and does not make me look good.” Gary has been married to his much-younger wife, Shannon Price, since 2006. Cops have been called to his home over 21 times, and Shannon admitted in an appearance on Divorce Court in 2008 (for public paid therapy, not to divorce) that Gary regularly loses his temper and “throws… temper tantrum[s] like a five-year-old.” About six months after their 2006 wedding Price admitted that she had yet to have sex with Coleman, said that they regularly went for a week or more without speaking, and detailed an incident in which Coleman threw a printer across the room because he couldn’t figure out how to receive a fax:

t’s been a rocky new year for Gary Coleman.

The Diff’rent Strokes star has been arrested on one misdemeanor count of domestic assault and is currently being held on $1,725 bail in Santaquin, Utah, TMZ.com reports.

Calls to Coleman’s lawyer and his agent weren’t immediately returned.

Police would not identify the victim.

It’s been a rough couple of years for the actor: Last year, his wife, Shannon Price, was arrested after a domestic violence incident involving the actor. In 2008, the couple appeared on TV’s Divorce Court to discuss their marital problems.

Earlier this month, Coleman, 41, was briefly hospitalized after he fell ill in Los Angeles.

The actor recently settled a lawsuit with a man he allegedly hit with his car at a Utah bowling alley in Sept. 2008.

[From People]

If Coleman can’t make bail I doubt he has the scratch to hire the counselor he so desperately needs.

Coleman’s sad life seems par for the course when compared to the other young co-stars on his 80s show Diff’rent Strokes. The actress who played his sister on the show, Dana Plato, sadly died from an overdose of prescription medication in 1999. She was just 34. The actor who played his older brother, Todd Bridges, was a cocaine addict who was acquitted of murder charges in 1988 for shooting a drug dealer. Bridges, 44, has fared ok since though and now has a recurring role on Everybody Hates Chris.

Gary Coleman is having a rough 2010 so far. The diminutive former child star was hospitalized earlier this week after having a seizure, which he says is the result of a tumble down some stairs and a head injury. Other media outlets claim the seizure was caused by his ongoing kidney dialysis treatments, but not so, says Gary: “My brain was rattling around a little bit,” is his official explanation. Gary is also peeved about a film he just finished in which a body double was used for him in a full frontal nude scene. Apparently, Gary isn’t happy about the appearance of the stand-in the film director chose.

Less than a day after suffering a seizure, Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman says he’s recovered and ready to talk about his health, his marriage and, yes, his penis.

Sporting a bandaged forehead and walking with a cane, the former child star sat down with E! News today less than 24 hours after being released from a Los Angeles hospital. The actor says he suffered a seizure in his hotel room as he was giving a round of telephone interviews Wednesday morning—and it wasn’t his first such scare.

“I had a seizure yesterday, and I’m a little weak on my left side, but I’m perfectly fine.” Coleman says the bump on his head and the cane were actually the result of a tumble at his Utah home on New Year’s Day and not due to yesterday’s episode. “I fell down the stairs—not because of a party—but because I was rushing to open the door for someone. I got a little damaged. And then 20 minutes later I had another seizure. So it looks like my brain’s being rattled inside my head for some reason.”

In Los Angeles to protest a straight-to-DVD film he costarred in called Midgets vs. Mascots, Coleman alleges the filmmakers used a body double for nude scenes in the movie. He says he plans to sue and prevent the moviemakers from selling any more copies of the film.

“I wanted all my fans and all your fans to protest my penis being in the movie, because I didn’t want that. It’s a body double, I believe, because I certainly was not gonna do this. And I heard that the body double is ugly, and is unattractive, and does not make me look good.”

And what do the film’s producers have to say? Read on…

The producers released the following statement.

“With regards to Gary Coleman’s displeasure with a scene in the film in which he briefly shows full frontal nudity, the producers of the film have multiple contracts—signed by Gary—which give the filmmakers full rights and permissions to shoot any and all footage, including nudity, during the making of the film. Therefore, we have no plans to remove that particular scene from the film. We met with Gary this morning and he is aware of our decision.”

Coleman says he plans to head back to Utah today, where he lives with his wife, Shannon Price. Though the couple has made headlines over the years for their domestic scuffles, he says they’ve settled into married life and are making it work.

“My wife and I are getting along great. When you live with someone, and it’s a life-term, lifelong kind of thing, you learn what makes that person tick. So I think I’m doing OK for a newly married husband. It’s a work in progress. I’m not someone that gives up.”

The actor also has a message to share with his fans: He’s got a lot of life left to live.

“I got 40 years in me yet. I ain’t going nowhere. A lot of these heiresses and a lot of these multi-billionaire people, you know, they’re dying here lately. I don’t understand that. I don’t know why that’s happening. But it’s certainly not happening on my side of the street.”

[From E!Online]

Gary has had a rough adult life, but he keeps on trying, you have to give him that. I hope he feels better soon - about the head injury, the seizure, and the unattractive body double. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if Gary might be better off leaving Hollywood behind and getting into another line of work that might be more lucrative and less demeaning. “Midgets vs. Mascots” sounds rather exploitative to me. At this point, that’s probably the best offer Gary gets these days.

Pint-sized former child actor Gary Coleman, 41, has made headlines for little else than his personal drama. The Diff’rent Strokes actor has been living in Utah with his on-again wife, Shannon Price, where police have been called to the home due to domestic issues no less than 21 times. Coleman sadly suffered a seizure while he was in LA for work yesterday and had to be taken to the hospital. Yes, Coleman still gets a little work, and had to miss a scheduled meeting about his film Midgets vs. Mascots, which he’s said frankly that he hates. “I have very little good to say about the movie because it’s just so offensive,” he said during a press tour in May. Apparently a new unrated DVD of the film contains a shot of Coleman’s manhood and he’s not happy about it. (The film is available through Midgets vs. Mascots’ website for anyone who wants to see little people punch each other out, throw up on each other, and fart. It truly is offensive on many levels. )

Coleman had to miss the meeting where he would have stomped his feet and yelled at people for showing his goods, but he will hopefully be ok. His agent says “he seems to be doing fine.” He suffers from a congenital kidney disease and has had two kidney transplants.

Gary Coleman is said to be doing well after an unexpected trip to a Los Angeles-area hospital.

The 41-year-old former Diff’rent Strokes star was staying at the boutique Custom Hotel when he suddenly fell ill around 8 a.m. and an ambulance was called.

But Coleman’s agent is assuring fans there’s nothing to worry about.

“He seems to be doing fine. They’ve found nothing wrong with him so far,” Robert Malcolm tells E! News. “They’re just testing to make sure everything’s OK.”

Malcolm says the actor, who has had two kidney transplants, was hospitalized as a precaution and should be released after some routine dialysis.

As for reports that Coleman may have had a seizure, Malcolm says he isn’t certain but that Coleman has never had one before.

But making things even worse is Coleman’s potentially X-rated issue…

Malcolm said the erstwhile child star was in town for a meeting with producers of his upcoming movie Midgets vs. Mascots to discuss a troublesome scene.

“He was very upset to cancel this meeting…because there’s a shot of a penis in the film,” added the agent. “Supposedly it’s his, and he’s not happy with it.”

[From People]

I hope that Coleman is ok. It’s sad that he still has to resort to trading on his brief glint of fame to make ends meet. He was really clear in that press conference earlier this year that he only took the job in Midgets vs. Mascots for the money and said “I took this job and I promote this film because they pay me.” The guy is very angry and he was frankly a little scary on The Surreal Life. He just seems to have no clear direction or joy in life. Coleman got married in 2006, but that only seemed to make things worse for him. He went on Divorce Court with his new bride in 2008, but the two just wanted some advice in exchange for the cash and haven’t yet called it quits.

Gary Coleman, 41, stars in a new reality-type movie that features little people competing with mascots in Jackass type competitions. There’s supposedly $1 million up for grabs for each contestant on the winning team for a total of $10 million, but it’s hard to believe the film had a budget that was even a tenth of that.

Coleman’s new film, Midgets vs. Mascots, is being billed as “shockumentary” and judging from the trailer, below, it’s a mess that’s offensive on many levels. There are scenes of little people getting punched out, mascots puking on each other, and predictable scatalogical humor. In a contractually obligated interview promoting the movie, the 41 year-old former child star makes it clear that he only did the film for money and that he thinks it’s a piece of crap:

His wife would be Shannon Price, 23, the pleasant redhead milling in the background. They live in Utah County, Utah together, are visibly in love, and their mortgage is, according to Coleman, what has driven him, now 41, to star in Midgets vs. Mascots.

“If they weren’t paying me, you wouldn’t be talking to me,” Coleman proclaims, motioning at director Ron Carlson and adding, “He is very proud of the film, and I don’t know why.

“I have very little good to say about the movie because it’s just so offensive. But I’m sure if you’re a fan of Borat, you’ll like this movie. But I have never liked the word midget.”

Coleman describes Borat as “ridiculous, offensive and pointless.”

Earlier this month Page Six quoted Coleman as saying he wanted “to bash my fists right in my agent’s face” for booking him this job.

Coleman says he was half-kidding.

“He knows as well as I do that I still have to pay my mortgage, and if I want to keep my land I have to do that. I took this job and I promote this film because they pay me. Not because I think it’s a good film, and not because I’m in it.”

With that, Carlson interjects, “You haven’t seen the movie yet.”

“And I probably won’t,” Coleman fires back.

The director continues, “People on the street are coming up to me saying, ‘Carlson, Aronofsky brought back Rourke, but what you did with Coleman…’”

“Who the hell is Aronofsky?” Coleman responds with a “whatchu talkin’ bout Willis”-like fury.

Carlson busts out laughing and declares 2009 “the year of Gary Coleman.”

So what’s next for Gary?

“Right now I have garycolemanworld.com, which is a really nice portal for me. It’s a shopping portal. I got scented candles, some Amway products, all kinds of good stuff.”

[From The Huffington Post]

The website Gary Coleman mentions, GaryColemanWorld.com, is pretty sad. It’s one of those template sites with just a front page and some links. As of 6:00 am EST it only had 665 visitors logged on the counter. It’s possible one of the sites he links out, RailsFurnitureRailways, is also run by Coleman but it’s hard to tell as it has no real identity. That site only sells perfume and some jewelry.

I saw this guy on “The Surreal Life” and he definitely has a massive chip on his shoulder. He’s been in several public fights with his young wife Shannon Price, 23, in which cops had to be called. The two were even on Divorce Court last year in an attempt to get some kind of cash, publicity and advice from Judge Toler. Shannon told the judge that Gary threw temper tantrums and would often bang his head against the wall when he was upset. At least with this exploitive movie he’s getting paid to be self destructive.

Gary claims that everything is fine in his marriage, though, and told The Huffington Post that married life is “great,” calling it “one of the hardest jobs you’ll ever love.” Last year on Divorce court Shannon said that she wanted children but that Gary didn’t. Luckily they remain childless.

Here’s the trailer for Midgets vs. Mascots. I don’t even know what to label the warning on this one. It’s just pretty terrible.

Here’s Coleman at the premiere of Midgets vs. Mascots on 4/25/09. credit: WENN.com

Since moving to a small town in Utah for privacy, it seems that Gary Coleman’s life has become even more drama-filled.  Police reports are stating that the cops have been called in to assist with situations involving Coleman 21 times.  These incidents include: a suicide call involving 30-40 Oxycontins; domestic disputes resulting in injuries; domestic disputes resulting in self-harm;  Coleman worried that his wife would send her three brothers to harm him and asking the police for protection; and even a supposed break-in that turned out to be boxes falling in the basement.  This quote from the police report describes Coleman throwing a fit at his wife, Shannon Price, in a parking lot in Provo:

“Coleman was yelling and pounding his steering wheel for approximately 10 minutes before he jumped out of his truck. He ran out in front of his truck and around to the woman’s door, stopping several cars, and then he went to his door and was running around, yelling and screaming and throwing his arms in the air as he did,” the police report says. “Coleman was yelling that he could not take it anymore.” The report says Price felt threatened and was worried things were going to “get out of control they way they did earlier.” The 4-foot-8 actor was charged with disorderly conduct and eventually placed on probation.

[From NY Post]

This is the same Shannon Price who, one month later, he decided to marry.

I understand wanting to get away from the drama of Hollywood, but one recent-ish gig for Coleman was on season two of The Surreal Life in 2004.  He wasn’t a regular cast member and was just featured on one episode, but still. He was being paid by people whose intention was to display him as a has been. You hope that was one fat paycheck. He also went on Divorce Court to try and save his marriage to Shannon Price. You don’t get more public than that. Going on cable television to settle a personal matter is just screaming for attention.

Though he accepts jobs like The Surreal Life, he also likes to bite the hand that feeds him.  A recent incident occurred in September of this year, in which he assaulted a fan who was trying to take a picture in the parking lot of a bowling alley.

I also can’t help but feel bad for him.  Due to his stature as well as his early TV career, it’s hard to think of him as anyone but, well, Gary Coleman.  He’ll probably spend the rest of his life playing himself and he’s just not that likable anymore.

Pint-sized washed up former child actor Gary Coleman, 40, has only made press lately for his personal problems. Last August Coleman married a 22 year-old extra he met on the set of one of his films and went on television earlier this year to detail the fact that their relationship was rocky and they hadn’t even slept together after six months. His new wife admitted that Coleman is volatile and that they’re often fighting late into night, with Coleman yelling and throwing stuff when he doesn’t get his way. The two even went on Divorce Court in May, but just to get some cash in exchange for airing their dirty laundry and advice from the judge, not to divorce.

This latest news that Coleman got into an altercation with a guy in a bowling alley parking lot isn’t that surprising considering his temper. Supposedly the guy wanted to take a a camera phone photo of Coleman, he refused, and either accidentally or deliberately hit the guy with his car depending on which version of the story you believe. We would probably hear more stories about Coleman getting in fights with fans if he actually had any.

It was closing time at the Payson bowling alley where Coleman is a regular. His friend and bodyguard, who does not want to be identified, says he, Coleman, and Coleman’s wife were just finishing their game when 24-year-old Colt Rushton came up to them and asked to take a photo with his cell phone and became very aggressive about it when Coleman said no. “He asked the kid not to take pictures. Why can’t he be an adult and respect his [Coleman’s] privacy,” said his bodyguard. The bodyguard, we’ll call “Fred,” says the harassment continued outside as Coleman and his wife tried to leave. “This kid would not back off—he would not back off.”

Police say Coleman’s truck struck Rushton and hit a car that had pulled up behind Coleman’s truck. Fred says Rushton ran around the actor’s pickup as Coleman was backing out. “The kid was way careless. He was reckless. Who runs out on somebody that’s turning?”

Rushton tells ABC4 a different account of what happened. He says Coleman’s wife took his cell phone, that Coleman threw several punches at him before getting behind the wheel of his truck. Rushton says he was trying to get his cell phone from Coleman when he put his truck in gear and struck Rushton knocking him to the ground.

“He did not intentionally hit this kid,” said Fred, “He [Coleman] was just trying to get out of here.” Payson Police say a County Deputy witnessed the scuffle and intervened. “He opened the door and pulled Gary out,” said Fred. Fred says the truck was still in gear when the deputy pulled Coleman out. It was heading toward Rushton who was still on the ground. Fred says he hopped in and put on the brakes.

Police say no one has been arrested or cited and say there’s some indication alcohol was a factor. Fred says it shows just how far some people will go to harass a celebrity. “They’re just like you and me. They want to be able to go out and do things and enjoy life.” Rushton claims his cell phone was taken by the Colemans and given back to him by investigators with all his stored information deleted. The Payson Police say it a case still under investigation.

[From ABC4 via TMZ]

The most surprising part of all this is that Coleman supposedly has a bodyguard. Whatever happened, we’re not likely to hear much more about it as no one was arrested and it doesn’t sound like anyone was hurt. At least Coleman got some much-needed press, even if it was inevitably negative. Coleman’s last movie role, according to IMDB, was in 2007 playing a pizza boy in the film A Christmas Too Many, starring Mickey Rooney and Ruta Lee. He has no roles lined up, and it’s not like the reality TV people are going to be knocking on his door again. There are some things the public just doesn’t want to know.

Gary Coleman is shown at the TV Land Awards on 6/8/08. Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures

In the least surprising news of the week, Gary Coleman is divorcing his wife of 8 months, 22-year-old Shannon Price. Lest you fear Coleman might resort to his typical child-like hysterics, rest assured that the couple is keeping it classy: they’re going to film the end of their marriage on an episode of Divorce Court.

Shortly after their marriage was first revealed to the public, Coleman revealed that he and Price hadn’t yet consummated their then six month old marriage. Price told The Insider that Gary has a terrible temper (as had already been well-documented on various reality television shows… and several police reports) and yells and throws things when he doesn’t get his way. You know, if you’re most famous for your pocket-sized statute and child-like features (and you hate that that’s what you’re known for), it makes sense that perhaps you wouldn’t engage in child-like temper tantrums. Apparently that’s exactly what’s torn the pair apart.

It may not have been the world’s shortest marriage, but in a way… Diminutive Diff’rent Strokes alum Gary Coleman is ostensibly divorcing his wife of just eight months, Shannon Price. The duo is keeping it classy and taking their marital woes to the small screen, having already taped an episode of Divorce Court set to hit syndication May 1-2.

Apparently Price, 22, can’t cotton to Coleman’s temper tantrums, announcing during the show that her 40-year-old mister “stomps the floor and yells, ‘Meehhhh,’ and starts throwing stuff around…He bashes his head in the wall, too.”

Another gripe: Coleman prefers staying at home with his train set to taking her out. Come to think of it, though, his penchant for toy locomotives could just be research. He’s got to do something to prepare for this trainwreck.

[From E! News]

I was under the impression that Gary Coleman was a regular guy who just happened to be short. But when you combine that with the temper tantrums, the love of playing with trains, and the inability to consummate his marriage, it makes you wonder if there’s something else going on with Gary Coleman. Either way, it’s clearly the best thing for Shannon Price. Aside from marrying Gary, she seems relatively normal. Obviously she’s got SOME issues going on, but she didn’t appear as obviously crazy as a lot of the people you see on TV. Maybe she can go on to live a normal life. Or maybe she’ll have her own reality show where she must choose from 30 short men. Now that’s television.

The Insider has several head-shaking interview clips with pint-sized washed-up former child actor Gary Coleman, 40, and his 22 year-old bride. We reported earlier in the week that Gary and his wife, Shannon Price, talked candidly about their volatile relationship in which they can go for a week without talking and Gary routinely throws stuff around the house in a rage. They’ve been married a whole six months after meeting on the set of one of Gary’s movies you’ve never heard of, Church Ball, where Price was an extra. Price didn’t recognize Coleman when he came up to her and told her she was too good looking to be an extra. Their romance moved from there, with Price bringing a ring and proposing to Coleman when he was in the hospital for three months after complications from thyroid surgery. He had a scare in the hospital and had to have an emergency tracheotomy so that he could breathe. Price was afraid he would die and didn’t want to lose him.

In interviews with The Insider, Price and Coleman admitted to the domestic problems they’ve been facing, with Price saying that they hadn’t made up after a fight earlier that day during which Coleman threw the printer because he couldn’t figure out how to receive a fax. She said “It’s ok, I’m used to it.” Price answered that she did fear for her safety when she was questioned about it. She answered “a lot, yes,” and also said she feared for her three dachshund dogs, which Coleman doesn’t like. Coleman answered “That doesn’t mean I’m going to kill them.”

Coleman said that although he’s been with Price for a year they haven’t had sex. He said “It will happen when it will happen.” It came out earlier that Coleman said this was his first relationship ever, so maybe we can assume he’s a virgin. With a temper like that, it’s no wonder.

Here is their more involved interview. He looks less than sober to me in these videos.

And here’s Coleman saying he hasn’t had sex:

Thanks to Redlasso for the heads up on this.

Gary Coleman got married, to 22-year-old Shannon Price, in a secret ceremony on her birthday after she proposed to him. The couple met on a film set in 2006, and married on August 28th of last year. Here’s what they have to say about their secret marriage and the way they fight and can go a full week without talking to each other:

On their height difference:
Coleman, who is only 4’8” tall, admits that this is the first “romantic relationship” he has participated in. “I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone…I wasn’t saving myself, she just happened to be the one.”

Price, who stands over 5’7” tall, tells Inside Edition height was never a factor in their relationship. “He was ten feet tall to me because he was sweet and I really liked his personality. That doesn’t really matter to me.”

On the age difference:
Coleman says, “I don’t have issues with age, I have issues with intelligence…She’s more intelligent then I am and that’s what matters to me.”

Their courtship:
Price says, “He was really sweet and I didn’t know who he was. I didn’t grow up with Diff’rent Strokes. I actually didn’t like watching TV when I was younger.”

The wedding:
The couple married secretly on August 28, 2007 on a Nevada mountaintop after meeting on the set of one of Coleman’s movies. The ceremony was extremely intimate. Coleman says, “Nobody was around but the minister, preacher, the videographers, the photographer, the helicopter pilot and us. That was all that was there. There was nobody else.”

Price, who actually proposed to Coleman, tells Inside Edition he surprised her with their wedding on her 22nd birthday. “I didn’t know that I was going to be in a helicopter ride and seeing the Grand Canyon and getting married in the Valley of Fire. I had no clue,” says the blushing bride. “I mean I knew that we were getting married, but I thought it would be just a little chapel.”

On the secrecy of their marriage:
The couple also shares the reason they say they kept their marriage a secret. Price says, “I just want my own identity as well because I don’t want to be known as Gary Coleman’s wife.”

Her proud husband agrees. “I wouldn’t want that in a million years. I wouldn’t want you to be known as Gary Coleman’s wife. I hope you do get successful. She’s a great eBay-er. She’s a fabulous eBay-er. I hope she gets famous for that.”

The dynamic of their relationship:
Price describing the relationship as “off and on.” “We may go a week and not speak to each other, but that’s because you’re thinking and mulling things over,” says Coleman.

Price explains, saying, “Yeah, I’ve locked myself in a room and stayed there because I’m like, ‘You know what? I don’t even want to fight over this, its ridiculous.” Price admits on several occasions the fights have gone beyond yelling. “He lets his anger conquer him sometimes, I don’t like the violence, I really don’t…He throws things around, and sometimes he throws it in my direction…He’s got to damage something before his anger stops.”

According to Price, she has had to call the police on several occasions. “He actually got a disorderly conduct ticket one time because we had gotten into an argument, just a minor argument in Provo. The guy gave him a ticket and he freaked out and he was on six months probation.”

Inside Edition

WTF!?!? I know that domestic violence is a very personal issue, and what people consider to be domestic violence can actually vary, but this is domestic violence, right? Just because he’s throwing objects instead of punches doesn’t change it. Not to mention feeling so frightened you’re locking yourself in another room, you sometimes go days without talking, and you’ve felt the need to call the police ‘several times’.

In the article Shannon says that Gary undertook anger management classes, but on the morning of the interview he smashed their fax machine because it wasn’t working.

A secret wedding is also not a good sign. Shannon claims that she wanted to be seen as her own person, but fails to say what it is she does for a living besides selling Gary Coleman stuff on eBay. Was the wedding a secret because their families didn’t approve?

If you are in a violent situation call the police. If the need is less urgent you can talk to your doctor, church leader or domestic violence service such as the National Domestic Violence Hotline. Don’t hesitate to get help and get out.