When trolls decided to mess with the former World’s Strongest Man, AKA The Mountain, they probably didn’t expect him to react the way he did.
If you’re going to troll celebrities, be prepared to be embarrassed.
After online commenters kept pestering Game of Thrones actor, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who played the giant Mountain man who crushed Pedro Pascal’s head like it was a watermelon, he was quick to take action.
That’s because it involved his wife, Kelsey Henson.
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Henson, who is only 5ft 2inches, is tiny compared to her 6ft 9 husband.
The trolls particularly were interested in how he and his wife do certain things together.
For example, kissing.
Because of their size difference, they wanted to know the logistics.
In an earlier instance, Henson responded that she told them that he accommodates her.
When she was doing an Instagram Q&A, someone asked: "How do you kiss? Do you jump into his arms every time and wrap your legs around his waist? Please post a picture of this impressive action.”
She replied: "Ah, he bends, I tiptoe. Or just say screw it, pick me up!"
But her Icelandic husband isn’t as likely to put up with rude or intrusive questions.
Speaking to The Mirror, he once explained how he deals with people online.
He said: “I don’t get people asking me to fight face-to-face but there’s a lot of brave folk on the internet. No one has ever threatened me in real life but on Facebook and Twitter it’s all the time. You just get internet warriors.”
Even though he sometimes gets abuse, Björnsson isn’t worried: "People try to be rude against me, my family, my girlfriend, anything.
“People like to be mean to people through social media.”
He added: "That’s what people do today. If there’s anything that offends me, especially if it’s towards my family, I just block them. I don’t accept that. I don’t get upset because I like to focus on the positive. I’m the world’s strongest man. What have they achieved?"
The couple have been together since 2017, married in October 2018 and have often garnered attention for their 19 inch height difference.
Sometimes, Henson even makes jokes about it too, even writing in an Instagram caption of the pair struggling to get a photo together: "Never get fully in the frame together....tall with short people problem.”
The pair have been through a lot during their relationship, including a heart-breaking announcement the actor made in November of last year.
Warning: the next part of the article discusses still birth which some readers might find distressing.
The couple, who had been expecting a little girl called Grace, was born stillborn at 21 and a half weeks gestation, 18 and a half weeks earlier than her due date.
Grace was their second child, having welcomed their son, Stormur three years earlier.
Björnsson also has an older daughter called Theresa Líf, from a previous relationship.
Speaking about their grief, he wrote online: "After a noticeable decrease in movement we found out her heart had stopped beating.
"Words cannot describe our pain of this loss or our happiness at being able to spend time with our daughter. She is absolutely beautiful, with blonde lashes and brows and a little smile for mom and dad.
"The love we feel for her is overwhelming. The grief we feel will be with us forever but so will the love."
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Britt Jones