An Amazon security guard sued for harassment after claiming a colleague 'ridiculed' him by comparing him to famously short 1980s' child star Gary Coleman. Christian Ononye said he was being harassed because of his height after someone pinned a picture of the American actor to a wall at work.
However, his case was thrown out after a tribunal ruled that as the picture was only of Coleman's head and shoulders it could not have been meant to mock Mr Ononye's stature. Coleman was known for playing the role of Arnold Jackson in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, with his iconic catchphrase 'Whatcha talkin bout Willis?'
The popular show about two African-American boys being taken in by a rich white man ran for eight series and 189 episodes between 1978–1986. The actor suffered from a condition known as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, an autoimmune disease that alters the kidneys. As a result, he stopped growing at a height of 4'8''. He died in 2010, aged 42, as a result of a head injury caused by a fall.
