{"id":829263,"date":"2025-02-23T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T19:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/abba-superfan-has-ended-up-with-84-mamma-mia-dvds-as-people-keep-giving-them-to-her-as-gifts\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T19:12:06","slug":"abba-superfan-has-ended-up-with-84-mamma-mia-dvds-as-people-keep-giving-them-to-her-as-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/abba-superfan-has-ended-up-with-84-mamma-mia-dvds-as-people-keep-giving-them-to-her-as-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Abba superfan has ended up with 84 Mamma Mia DVDs \u2014 as people keep giving them to her as gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AN ABBA superfan has ended up with 84 Mamma Mia DVDs \u2014 as people keep giving them to her as gifts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leah Rankin, 22, was gutted when her gran accidentally got her a disc for the second time, forgetting her first purchase.<\/p>\n

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Abba superfan Leah Rankin, pictured with dad Ralph, has ended up with 84 Mamma Mia DVDs<\/span>Credit: Kennedy Newsand Media<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The uni graduate then ended up with a third when dad Ralph gave her yet another copy.<\/p>\n

The gaffe soon turned into a long-running joke, with Ralph, 56, grabbing another 71 identical DVDs for Leah.<\/p>\n

Leah, from Bonnyrigg, near Edinburgh<\/a>, said: \u201cWhen I opened the first couple of copies, I thought \u2018how many am I going to get here?\u2019 and they just kept coming.\u201d <\/p>\n

After electronics shop owner Ralph shared the stunt to fellow TikTokers<\/a>, viewers sent in their own copies of the 2008 flick.<\/p>\n

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One Abba fan wrote: \u201cI\u2019ve never had more respect for someone before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dad-of-one Ralph has already spent \u00a360 on his collection, but plans to get 500 DVDs for Leah. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cAfter I\u2019d seen Mamma Mia\u2019s in charity shops and second-hand DVD shops, I thought I\u2019d just start buying them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one shop I found a dozen, and when I went to buy them the lady looked at me as if I was mad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leah admitted she \u201cloves\u201d the hit jukebox musical, starring Meryl Streep \u2014 and finds her dad\u2019s jape funny.<\/p>\n

But she added: \u201cAll my friends think it\u2019s crazy \u2014 they\u2019ve seen it on Facebook and TikTok and I just say \u2018yeah, that\u2019s my Dad\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AN ABBA superfan has ended up with 84 Mamma Mia DVDs \u2014 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. 3 Abba superfan Leah Rankin, pictured with dad Ralph, has ended up with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2998,31059],"tags":[15116,141964],"class_list":{"0":"post-829263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ended","8":"category-superfan","9":"tag-ended","10":"tag-superfan"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}