Gary Coleman Secrety Weds Shannon Price

Different Strokes mini-star Gary Coleman secretly wed Shannon Price nearly eight months ago in Nevada. Price wanted to keep the nuptials secret to protect her privacy.

“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.

Coleman is 18-years older than Price. She is nearly a foot taller at 5′7″.