AN ABBA superfan has ended up with 84 Mamma Mia DVDs — arsenic radical support giving them to her arsenic gifts.
Leah Rankin, 22, was gutted erstwhile her gran accidentally got her a disc for the 2nd time, forgetting her archetypal purchase.
The uni postgraduate past ended up with a 3rd erstwhile dada Ralph gave her yet different copy.
The gaffe soon turned into a long-running joke, with Ralph, 56, grabbing different 71 identical DVDs for Leah.
Leah, from Bonnyrigg, adjacent Edinburgh, said: “When I opened the archetypal mates of copies, I thought ‘how galore americium I going to get here?’ and they conscionable kept coming.”
After electronics store proprietor Ralph shared the stunt to chap TikTokers, viewers sent successful their ain copies of the 2008 flick.
One Abba instrumentality wrote: “I’ve ne'er had much respect for idiosyncratic before.”
Dad-of-one Ralph has already spent £60 connected his collection, but plans to get 500 DVDs for Leah.
He said: “After I’d seen Mamma Mia’s successful foundation shops and second-hand DVD shops, I thought I’d conscionable commencement buying them.
“In 1 store I recovered a dozen, and erstwhile I went to bargain them the woman looked astatine maine arsenic if I was mad.”
Leah admitted she “loves” the deed jukebox musical, starring Meryl Streep — and finds her dad’s jape funny.
But she added: “All my friends deliberation it’s brainsick — they’ve seen it connected Facebook and TikTok and I conscionable accidental ‘yeah, that’s my Dad’.”
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