Those closest to Gary, including Todd Bridges, are planning a memorial service for him. And guess who is not invited?

Who? His parents? Shannon?

Who? His parents? Shannon?



You guessed it right! All three!! :)

Poor Shannon, first she gets kicked out of Gary's house, and now she's not invited to the memorial service. How much more can she endure? :violin:

Poor Shannon, first she gets kicked out of Gary's house, and now she's not invited to the memorial service. How much more can she endure? :violin:
I'm sure she'll tell us about it. lol

Poor Shannon, first she gets kicked out of Gary's house, and now she's not invited to the memorial service. How much more can she endure? :violin:


That's right, give her the violin so that she can play the sad songs.

Well, I would hate to be the one to rub salt into her wounds, but as the old saying and the song goes; You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!! :)

Quiet as it's kept, she's being thrown out to the wolves! :)

Also, don't forget that she's been ordered to return all the stuff that she so greedily took from the house before she was banned from staying in it after Gary passed on. At this point, my heart bleeds for her. :)

And as I said before, God does not like ugly! :)

Poor Shannon, first she gets kicked out of Gary's house, and now she's not invited to the memorial service. How much more can she endure? :violin:
She's just a good old-fashioned :crybaby:!

She's just a good old-fashioned :crybaby:!




That's a good way of putting it! :)

I wonder if NBC is going to televise it? They should. Gary practically kept the network afloat in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/06/exclusive-gary-coleman-international-memorial-being-planned

Despite all the controversy surrounding his death, Gary Coleman will finally get a tribute of his life. RadarOnline.com has learned that an international memorial is being planned for the Diff’rent Stokes star.



“I’m planning a proper memorial for the industry to say goodbye to one of the greatest child actors ever,” his former agent Victor Perillo tells RadarOnline.com exclusively. “I’m planning it with NBC and Norman Lear and it will be something for everyone.



“Gary Coleman was an international star and he should be celebrated as such both in life and death.”



Plans to cremate the actor are underway and Perillo says it may have in fact already happened. “From what I understand the cremation was supposed to happen sometime last night after Anna Gray viewed the body,” he said.



Coleman’s body has been awaiting cremation at the Lake Hills Memorial Mortuary & Cemetery in Sandy, Utah.

I heard his remains have indeed been cremated on the news. So at least he can be put to rest.

I heard his remains have indeed been cremated on the news. So at least he can be put to rest.
....and the ashes are going to be stored until the legal matters are resolved. So crazy lady doesn't get them!

....and the ashes are going to be stored until the legal matters are resolved. So crazy lady doesn't get them!
I hope no one has leaked where the ashes will be stored. :eek: :eek: :eek:

speaking of shannon shes now whining to radaronline that she was depreved of saying goodbye to Gary but yet a few days ago she didn't want to see him before he was creamated.Geez all this woman knows how to do is lie

She should just stay at home and look at the $10,000 she made off that death photo - as well as all the money she as made doing interviews with The Insider & Internet Sites.

Enjoy Hell Shannon!:wave:

She should just stay at home and look at the $10,000 she made off that death photo - as well as all the money she as made doing interviews with The Insider & Internet Sites.

Enjoy Hell Shannon!:wave:
Not to mention the inevitable BOOK DEAL!!!! :rolleyes: :mad:

I wonder if NBC is going to televise it? They should. Gary practically kept the network afloat in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/06/exclusive-gary-coleman-international-memorial-being-planned

Despite all the controversy surrounding his death, Gary Coleman will finally get a tribute of his life. RadarOnline.com has learned that an international memorial is being planned for the Diff’rent Stokes star.



“I’m planning a proper memorial for the industry to say goodbye to one of the greatest child actors ever,” his former agent Victor Perillo tells RadarOnline.com exclusively. “I’m planning it with NBC and Norman Lear and it will be something for everyone.



“Gary Coleman was an international star and he should be celebrated as such both in life and death.”



Plans to cremate the actor are underway and Perillo says it may have in fact already happened. “From what I understand the cremation was supposed to happen sometime last night after Anna Gray viewed the body,” he said.



Coleman’s body has been awaiting cremation at the Lake Hills Memorial Mortuary & Cemetery in Sandy, Utah.




Probably not, since the service is said to be private.

Well, the FUNERAL might be private - but people can plan a memorial service for someone without a body being present.

A memorial service has finally been arranged for Gary Coleman, and his ex-wife Shannon Price is not invited, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

After nearly two months of bitter disputes and controversy surrounding the death of Gary Coleman, we’ve learned that a memorial for the actor will be held Friday in Los Angeles. to say goodbye to the Diff’rent Strokes star.


“Shannon is not invited,” revealed Robert Malcolm, Coleman’s former manager in an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com. “This is for people who can look into each other’s faces and remember the good.”

This shocking revelation comes after 24-year-old Price posed for photos with Coleman on his deathbed and then profited from their sale. She also sold interviews about the Diff’rent Strokes star within 24 hours of his death.


Friends and family expressed concern that Price could have done more to help Gary after he first hit his head following his fateful fall down the stairs. She then made the decision to take Coleman off life support, even though he had signed a document saying he wanted his life prolonged.

Her bizarre behavior surrounding his death on May 28th has kept the story in the spotlight ever since, despite Coleman’s wishes for privacy.


“Gary requested no public funeral or memorial, he just wanted to be left alone even in death,” explained Malcolm.

“We’re keeping it private because that is how Gary would have wanted it. The guests will only be good friends of Gary’s – the people he cared about and worked with. It will be a small intimate group,” he revealed.

A memorial service has finally been arranged for Gary Coleman, and his ex-wife Shannon Price is not invited, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

After nearly two months of bitter disputes and controversy surrounding the death of Gary Coleman, we’ve learned that a memorial for the actor will be held Friday in Los Angeles. to say goodbye to the Diff’rent Strokes star.


“Shannon is not invited,” revealed Robert Malcolm, Coleman’s former manager in an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com. “This is for people who can look into each other’s faces and remember the good.”

This shocking revelation comes after 24-year-old Price posed for photos with Coleman on his deathbed and then profited from their sale. She also sold interviews about the Diff’rent Strokes star within 24 hours of his death.


Friends and family expressed concern that Price could have done more to help Gary after he first hit his head following his fateful fall down the stairs. She then made the decision to take Coleman off life support, even though he had signed a document saying he wanted his life prolonged.

Her bizarre behavior surrounding his death on May 28th has kept the story in the spotlight ever since, despite Coleman’s wishes for privacy.


“Gary requested no public funeral or memorial, he just wanted to be left alone even in death,” explained Malcolm.

“We’re keeping it private because that is how Gary would have wanted it. The guests will only be good friends of Gary’s – the people he cared about and worked with. It will be a small intimate group,” he revealed.





I thought that he fell in the kitchen.

Anyway, as they say, God does not like ugly. What goes around comes around!

And since his ex is not invited to the funeral, you can almost bet that she won't be getting anything from Gary that he left behind in the house or any of his money!!!!

Take THAT, Shannon! Take it on the chin!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Awhhhhhhhhhhh, poor Shannon!

I guess I can see why Shannon was not invited. The question is does she even want to be there?

I guess I can see why Shannon was not invited. The question is does she even want to be there?
She probably wants people to "think" she wants to be there.

She probably wants people to "think" she wants to be there.





As the old saying goes, the truth will set you free, but first, first it will make you miserable. :lol: :lol: :lol:

the latest from RADARONLINE.com


Gary Coleman's friends are being slammed for excluding his ex-wife Shannon Price from a memorial service honoring the Diff'rent Strokes actor, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

In fact, the day before Coleman suffered the fall that proved to be fatal, he begged Price's spokesperson Sheila Erickson to help Price be successful and to take care of her. Erickson told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview that excluding Price from the Friday memorial is not what Gary would have wanted.

Coleman’s former manager Robert Malcolm told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview Wednesday that Price is not invited to the memorial and it “is for people who can look into each other’s faces and remember the good.”

However, Erickson told RadarOnline.com exclusively, “It’s really sad. It breaks my heart. I know Gary is looking down asking, ‘Does anything I say matter?’

“What’s so funny is the day before Gary fell he kept repeating himself to me like four or five times a day, ‘Help Shannon be successful, take care of Shannon.’ These people say they loved Gary, but they’re not doing what Gary wanted. It’s only for themselves.”

The ceremony will be a small intimate group of friends and will be private—just as Gary wished.

“They’re alienating her,” Erickson told RadarOnline.com. “Gary fulfilled the most important thing in his life before he died and that was having a fulfilling relationship with Shannon and it’s so sad that she’s being ostracized because she’s the one person Gary loved the most.”

If invited, Shannon would definitely attend, Erickson said.

“Of course, she’d like to be there if she felt welcome because she doesn’t want all of this contention and have people say, ‘You’re not supposed to be here.’ But why leave Shannon out?

“If it’s in honor of Gary, it should honor his wishes,” Erickson said.

The Price family held their own memorial for Gary while visiting Shannon’s mother’s gravesite in Utah last month, Erickson revealed.

“We talked about Gary, talked about memories and shed some tears,” Shielia told RadarOnline.com.

But Shannon will get her chance to tell her side of the story, according to Erickson.

She'll do that by writing a book, a development first reported by RadarOnline.com.

“I thought, ‘let’s do something that no one can take away from her. It will be My Life with Gary Coleman about their life together, happy times, Gary’s deepest thoughts and what he went through. It’s been very therapeutic for her,” Erickson said.

someone make this idiot shut up.How suprising that the suppesodly book shes writing about Gary turns into all about Shannon like anybody would buy it.

someone make this idiot shut up.How suprising that the suppesodly book shes writing about Gary turns into all about Shannon like anybody would buy it.





And ummm, what would be the title of this supposed-to-be-so-called book that she plans to write, "If I did it"?

Serves her right for not being invited to Gary's private services!!

Also, this saga seems to have more twists and turns than a roller coaster or a soap!!

Those closest to Gary, including Todd Bridges, are planning a memorial service for him. And guess who is not invited?

Whatchoo talkin 'bout Willis??

HOW can you let that tramp Shannon get away with my murder??

OF COURSE she's not invited!

someone make this idiot shut up.How suprising that the suppesodly book shes writing about Gary turns into all about Shannon like anybody would buy it.

LOL..no one will buy her book.

I don't know what is going on here but I contacted Paul Peterson on Facebook and he doesn't know anything about these memorial services and he wasn't invited.
Here is today's news.

Safe to say that Gary Coleman's folks aren't into this kind of diff'rent strokes.


The late actor's former agent, who landed Coleman his seminal role on Diff'rent Strokes back in 1978, tells E! News that the star's estranged parents are very angry that they weren't invited to the private memorial being held for him tonight in L.A.—even though his last wishes expressly forbade them from attending.

All together now: Whatchu talkin bout, Victor?

Victor Perillo, who is representing the interests of Sue and Willie Coleman, said that as far as he knew the remembrance was organized only yesterday by another of the former child star's ex-agents, Robert Malcolm, and that no one in the family's camp knows who was actually invited.

"I'm not doing anything with it," says Perillo. "I have another one I am planning. Robert Malcolm is a horse's ass. These are people that came on in the ninth inning of Gary's life. I've been with the Colemans for 30 years. I met Gary when he was 6 years old. These people act as experts on him and they want to celebrate his life with only 15 people."

Malcolm did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Perillo was quick to add that he still plans to hold his own more celeb-oriented tribute to his former client.

"I am trying to do a network goodbye, a national goodbye to Gary so we wouldn't have this circus going on," said the agent. "I have calls into everybody in the industry. I have a couple production companies that are interested. I'm trying to get the total industry to give a farewell to one of their own...a retrospective of his life, not the past 15 years as a bitter, washed-up child actor who hated his parents. We have to talk about the Gary Coleman that I knew."

Along with barring Coleman's parents, his live-in ex-wife, Shannon Price, was also blacklisted from Malcolm's event.

And tonight's is not the only Coleman memorial they're not welcomed at.

Last month, some of Coleman's closest pals—girlfriend and would-be heir Anna Gray, author-entrepreneur Kent Emmons and Diff'rent Strokes sibling Todd Bridges—announced they were putting together their own farewell in the coming months.

Emmons previously said they'll invite about two dozen people to celebrate Gary's life as well as reminisce about his Diff'rent Strokes days. No word yet when that gathering will take place.



Read more: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b189675_gary_colemans_parents_pissed_over.html?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories#ixzz0tN1x64Zy

Man this is like a circus.I guess I shouldn't be suprised at how much drama is still going on.

Should be interesting to see if there will be a Gary Coleman celebrity tribute on TV.

the latest from RADARONLINE.com


Gary Coleman's friends are being slammed for excluding his ex-wife Shannon Price from a memorial service honoring the Diff'rent Strokes actor, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.

In fact, the day before Coleman suffered the fall that proved to be fatal, he begged Price's spokesperson Sheila Erickson to help Price be successful and to take care of her. Erickson told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview that excluding Price from the Friday memorial is not what Gary would have wanted.

Coleman’s former manager Robert Malcolm told RadarOnline.com in an exclusive interview Wednesday that Price is not invited to the memorial and it “is for people who can look into each other’s faces and remember the good.”

However, Erickson told RadarOnline.com exclusively, “It’s really sad. It breaks my heart. I know Gary is looking down asking, ‘Does anything I say matter?’

“What’s so funny is the day before Gary fell he kept repeating himself to me like four or five times a day, ‘Help Shannon be successful, take care of Shannon.’ These people say they loved Gary, but they’re not doing what Gary wanted. It’s only for themselves.”

The ceremony will be a small intimate group of friends and will be private—just as Gary wished.

“They’re alienating her,” Erickson told RadarOnline.com. “Gary fulfilled the most important thing in his life before he died and that was having a fulfilling relationship with Shannon and it’s so sad that she’s being ostracized because she’s the one person Gary loved the most.”

If invited, Shannon would definitely attend, Erickson said.

“Of course, she’d like to be there if she felt welcome because she doesn’t want all of this contention and have people say, ‘You’re not supposed to be here.’ But why leave Shannon out?

“If it’s in honor of Gary, it should honor his wishes,” Erickson said.

The Price family held their own memorial for Gary while visiting Shannon’s mother’s gravesite in Utah last month, Erickson revealed.

“We talked about Gary, talked about memories and shed some tears,” Shielia told RadarOnline.com.

But Shannon will get her chance to tell her side of the story, according to Erickson.

She'll do that by writing a book, a development first reported by RadarOnline.com.

“I thought, ‘let’s do something that no one can take away from her. It will be My Life with Gary Coleman about their life together, happy times, Gary’s deepest thoughts and what he went through. It’s been very therapeutic for her,” Erickson said.
It's always about Shannon with her. That's all she cares about. I wish she'd shut up.

Man this is like a circus.I guess I shouldn't be suprised at how much drama is still going on.
Everything involving Gary is a circus I'm afraid. It was true when he was alive and it's true now that he's gone. :(

Everything involving Gary is a circus I'm afraid. It was true when he was alive and it's true now that he's gone. :(



Shame!!

Poor Gary is being made a spectacle of even in death, as was when he was alive and well!!!!!

It's no wonder that he trusted fewer & fewer people and shut himself away from the world! People were always poking fun at him behind his back, but they were always scheming to be around him for what they can get out of him!!

And yes, Shannon, that includes you as well!!! :mad:

A memorial was held Monday afternoon at Il Cielo restaurant in Beverly Hills for Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman where friends gathered to remember him as a kind, generous man with a giant spirit.


Todd Bridges was at the lunchtime event along with Gary’s former agent Robert Malcolm, the executor of his estate Anna Gray, his lawyer Randy Kester, former manager Dion Mial and several producers who worked with Gary and friends whose lives were profoundly touched by the star who died at age 42 on May 28.

Noticeably absent and not invited was Gary’s ex-wife Shannon Price, who posed for photos with the actor in the hospital on his deathbed while he was on life support and later profited from the sale of those pictures.


“Her actions both after the accident and in the days following; taking him off life support so quickly, selling his trains, taking photos when he died,” former business partner Barry Greenberg told RadarOnline.com’s Amber Goodhand of his take on Price.

“I think those were all very strange actions.”


When one person at the event called Gary a “little guy,” Gray spoke up and said, “No, he’s the biggest man in the world.”

That sentiment ran throughout the afternoon.

“This is a special day where the people who helped him or were his friends, can gather and discuss the good times in his life,” Malcolm told RadarOnline.com.


The event started at approximately noon PT and lasted two hours. Guests feasted on calamari, eggplant, pesto pasta, salmon, chicken, mini sliders, chocolate covered strawberries, cream puffs and more.

A woman in attendance said her name was Tree Windsong and she was blind. She said she met Gary when she called into a Tucson, Arizona radio show that was running a “win a date with Gary Coleman” show. Windsong won and went out with Gary, leading to a friendship that lasted years.


One friend of Gary’s talked about his fear of grass because of the germs he believed it harbored and recalled carrying him across her lawn so he could attend her birthday party.

At one point in his life Gary worked as a security guard. A producer who encountered him during this time pitched a project to Gary that would involve Emmanuel Lewis. The two diminutive stars met but things quickly turned contentious.

Gary one-upped his fellow celebrity by saying something he rarely got to utter: “I’m a foot taller than you!”

The story drew laughs throughout the room.


“I can’t say that I was shocked,” Greenberg said of Gary’s death. “I know that he had all kinds of problems in life, all kinds of trouble, both medically and personally and it’s just very sad.”

Gray was still visibly grieving after the memorial telling RadarOnline.com, “I’m not ready to comment, guys. Thank you for the interest.”


More laughs were had when Gary’s former attorney, Randy Kester told RadarOnline.com one of his fondest memories of the actor.

“He had his pants tucked into his boots and I said, ‘Why do you have pants tucked into your boots?’ He said, ‘Well, don’t you think it makes me look taller?’”


It was a low-key afternoon with Gary’s inner circle sharing the best memories they had of the star. Malcolm recalled Gary saying, “I wish you were my dad,” and it was clear by the time everyone felt that Gary had inspired a sense of family in his closest friends.

A memorial was held Monday afternoon at Il Cielo restaurant in Beverly Hills for Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman where friends gathered to remember him as a kind, generous man with a giant spirit.


Todd Bridges was at the lunchtime event along with Gary’s former agent Robert Malcolm, the executor of his estate Anna Gray, his lawyer Randy Kester, former manager Dion Mial and several producers who worked with Gary and friends whose lives were profoundly touched by the star who died at age 42 on May 28.

Noticeably absent and not invited was Gary’s ex-wife Shannon Price, who posed for photos with the actor in the hospital on his deathbed while he was on life support and later profited from the sale of those pictures.


“Her actions both after the accident and in the days following; taking him off life support so quickly, selling his trains, taking photos when he died,” former business partner Barry Greenberg told RadarOnline.com’s Amber Goodhand of his take on Price.

“I think those were all very strange actions.”


When one person at the event called Gary a “little guy,” Gray spoke up and said, “No, he’s the biggest man in the world.”

That sentiment ran throughout the afternoon.

“This is a special day where the people who helped him or were his friends, can gather and discuss the good times in his life,” Malcolm told RadarOnline.com.


The event started at approximately noon PT and lasted two hours. Guests feasted on calamari, eggplant, pesto pasta, salmon, chicken, mini sliders, chocolate covered strawberries, cream puffs and more.

A woman in attendance said her name was Tree Windsong and she was blind. She said she met Gary when she called into a Tucson, Arizona radio show that was running a “win a date with Gary Coleman” show. Windsong won and went out with Gary, leading to a friendship that lasted years.


One friend of Gary’s talked about his fear of grass because of the germs he believed it harbored and recalled carrying him across her lawn so he could attend her birthday party.

At one point in his life Gary worked as a security guard. A producer who encountered him during this time pitched a project to Gary that would involve Emmanuel Lewis. The two diminutive stars met but things quickly turned contentious.

Gary one-upped his fellow celebrity by saying something he rarely got to utter: “I’m a foot taller than you!”

The story drew laughs throughout the room.


“I can’t say that I was shocked,” Greenberg said of Gary’s death. “I know that he had all kinds of problems in life, all kinds of trouble, both medically and personally and it’s just very sad.”

Gray was still visibly grieving after the memorial telling RadarOnline.com, “I’m not ready to comment, guys. Thank you for the interest.”


More laughs were had when Gary’s former attorney, Randy Kester told RadarOnline.com one of his fondest memories of the actor.

“He had his pants tucked into his boots and I said, ‘Why do you have pants tucked into your boots?’ He said, ‘Well, don’t you think it makes me look taller?’”


It was a low-key afternoon with Gary’s inner circle sharing the best memories they had of the star. Malcolm recalled Gary saying, “I wish you were my dad,” and it was clear by the time everyone felt that Gary had inspired a sense of family in his closest friends.





I was about to say that my guess was that she was banned from attending THAT one, also!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Glad Shannon wasn't invited.Aw thats sad Gary telling his manager that he wished he was his dad.

Glad Shannon wasn't invited.Aw thats sad Gary telling his manager that he wished he was his dad.



Yeah, my hearts bleeds for her!!

According to Gary, he had no parents. I think that he needed someone to fill the void when he became bitter against his adopted parents after that lawsuit that he won against them.

Well, he wanted what was rightfully his, and instead of them letting him have it, they wouldn't and caused him to seek legal action against them.

He won the battle, but sadly, he lost the war!! :( :( :(

Yeah, my hearts bleeds for her!!

According to Gary, he had no parents. I think that he needed someone to fill the void when he became bitter against his adopted parents after that lawsuit that he won against them.

Well, he wanted what was rightfully his, and instead of them letting him have it, they wouldn't and caused him to seek legal action against them.

He won the battle, but sadly, he lost the war!! :( :( :(

Its really sad that they never made up before he died.Now while I think they treated him awful stealing his money ect.Although I do think Garys issues with his parents went deeper than them just stealing his money though.Its just a feeling I have.

Its really sad that they never made up before he died.Now while I think they treated him awful stealing his money ect.Although I do think Garys issues with his parents went deeper than them just stealing his money though.Its just a feeling I have.





Yeah, I, also, think that there was more to that than meets the eye. :( :( :(

Yeah, I, also, think that there was more to that than meets the eye. :( :( :(

Its just a sad situation all around.From there interviews they do geninely seem to be greiving and sad about Garys death.

Its just a sad situation all around.From there interviews they do geninely seem to be greiving and sad about Garys death.





Gary probably won't get top billing like Michael Jackson did when HE died, but Gary, himself, also became a very popular entertainer in his OWN right!!

He left a trademark for others to follow. He will certainly be missed by everyone who worked with him, as well as having watched him on TV, growing up with him! :(