CAN’T KNOCK GARY COLEMAN’S HUSTLE
THE FACTS
Gary Coleman is endorsing French fries for a fast food chain in Canada.
THE SPIN
I’m sure some of you are looking at this image of Gary Coleman promoting Canadian french fry chain New York Fries and wanting to point and laugh.
I, however, am tempted to grab a bottle of ketchup and hold it up to the screen as a way to salute him.
Celebrities - even the ones who still matter in this decade - shill all types of stuff overseas. So while Canadian french fries likely doesn’t net as much as Beyonce gets for pushing bottled water in Japan, I bet he made the rent this month.
In a recession, isn’t that all that matters?
YOUR SPIN: Do you feel sorry for Gary? Tell us here.
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Yes, I wish somehow he could solve his problems and get a career going again. He suffered a lot.
Gary,
Do your thang. No one is paying your bills. Do what you got to do and make a living. I aint mad at you.
D-Money
Hopefully, Tyler Perry will help him out. One thing I notice is Tyler use people you haven’t seen in a minute in his movies and plays. I feel sorry for him. Nothing wrong with him doing what he have to to pay the rent.
This is truly a sad image to see of someone who was so talented and successful as a child. Everything that he’s been through, his parent’s ripping him off, the kidney failure and illness behind that, wasn’t his fault at all and he didn’t deserve that.
Summer had mentioned that maybe TP can help him out and yes, it’s true that TP has cast people you haven’t seen in years. I pray that Gary Coleman will have some successes, he defintely deserves it. My prayers go out to him.
He has to do what he has to do..no one is going to pay his bills but him. It’s just sad and I do feel sorry for him.
I just don’t buy the parents ripping him off story. When I saw them in an interview possibly ten years ago, they just didn’t come across as the scheming type. They were middle-classed people before Gary Coleman became famous, and the people I saw were the most ordinary unassuming people, living in an ordinary middle-classed home, with ordinary middle-classed furnishings. There was nothing ostentatious about them.
His mother kept a place set at the table for him, in case he ever decided to come home. There were no tears flowing or blowing of noses, but both of his parents appeared genuinely hurt that they no longer had a relationship with him.
Because of the way his parents came across to me, I think one of two things happened: 1) if they lost his money, it was probably through bad investments due to a lack of financial knowledge. 2) Gary Coleman might have been surrounded by greedy lawyers who convinced him that his parents didn’t have his best interests at heart, so that they could control his money.
I think he should try to make up with his parents, because I’ll bet they still care more about him than the rest of the world does.
Even if TP gave Gary a chance would he know what to do with it? I’m sure you’ve seen recent interviews of him and he is non-functional. He’s been in various roles in sitcom’s and I assume his behavior was reason why he was not given a reoccuring role. Also his choice of spouse proves he has some serious issues going on. I commend him for going across the border for work but he needs to “social sober” up if he’s serious about returning to tv and film.
Rance you are right. He does need to make up with his parents. He need to forgive and move on.
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