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Abba superfan has ended up with 84 Mamma Mia DVDs — as people keep giving them to her as gifts
The gaffe soon turned into a long-running joke
AN ABBA superfan has ended up with 84 Mamma Mia DVDs — as people keep giving them to her as gifts.
Leah Rankin, 22, was gutted when her gran accidentally got her a disc for the second time, forgetting her first purchase.
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The uni graduate then ended up with a third when dad Ralph gave her yet another copy.
The gaffe soon turned into a long-running joke, with Ralph, 56, grabbing another 71 identical DVDs for Leah.
Leah, from Bonnyrigg, near Edinburgh, said: “When I opened the first couple of copies, I thought ‘how many am I going to get here?’ and they just kept coming.”
After electronics shop owner Ralph shared the stunt to fellow TikTokers, viewers sent in their own copies of the 2008 flick.
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One Abba fan wrote: “I’ve never had more respect for someone before.”
Dad-of-one Ralph has already spent £60 on his collection, but plans to get 500 DVDs for Leah.
He said: “After I’d seen Mamma Mia’s in charity shops and second-hand DVD shops, I thought I’d just start buying them.
“In one shop I found a dozen, and when I went to buy them the lady looked at me as if I was mad.”
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Leah admitted she “loves” the hit jukebox musical, starring Meryl Streep — and finds her dad’s jape funny.
But she added: “All my friends think it’s crazy — they’ve seen it on Facebook and TikTok and I just say ‘yeah, that’s my Dad’.”
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