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Grandma celebrates 80th birthday with raunchy 'Magic Mike' cowboy show at retirement home

Grandma celebrates 80th birthday with raunchy 'Magic Mike' cowboy show at retirement home

Barbara marked her 80th birthday with a visit from the Ranch Hands Cowboylesque dance group

If you cast your mind many years to the future, the likelihood is that when you think of how you're going to spend your 80th birthday, you're not surrounded by a crowd of buff men gyrating in your face. Or maybe you are.

But while for some that is just a fantasy, a group of pensioners at a retirement home in Florida lived it:

To mark her mum's milestone birthday, Katie Ingram enlisted the help of the boys from Ranch Hands Cowboylesque dance group to give Barbara and a bunch of her friends the full Magic Mike experience.

The excited group sat back as the hunky troupe swapped their usual nightclub spot for the care home, and rocked the girls' world.

Thankfully, as you might expect, the routine was decidedly cleaner than their standard audience is used to from their act.

While the group is made up of 10 strapping strippers, only four of the lads - George Blick, Alexander O'Neill, Frederico Tonet and Max Berry - were involved in this very special performance, which saw each of the ladies handed a rose and a card by the lads.

The Ranch Hands Cowboylesque troupe gave Barbara and her friends quite the thrill.
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Lexy Burke, who manages the group, said: "We had a guy reach out as it was his wife's mum's 80th birthday on Valentine's Day.

"He wanted to do something special for her as he didn't know if it would be her last birthday.

"We got the guys and some roses and little cards, and they performed a variety of numbers, but we cleaned it up a little bit."

And she said that it went down a storm with Barbara and the rest of the women.

"All the ladies were very chatty - they all wanted to talk to the guys in between," said Lexy.

"They were hilarious. A lot of them were talking about how they used to dance.

"One woman went into detail about how handsome her husband was and how one of the guys looked like her husband."

Each of the women were handed a red rose and a card.
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Daughter Katie, 44, said she was happy to be able to give her mum a good time before she sadly passed away in March last year.

Barbara was diagnosed with dementia in 2017, when she was 75, and began living at The Arbors at Willow Springs, with her other daughter Molly, 43, who has Down Syndrome, when Katie and her family moved to Florida.

The pair were roommates at the car home, and Molly helped calm her mother's anxiety.

"My mum was full of spirit and up for a good time," Katie said.

"She was a pianist and was really special, I was so glad to have her in my life.

"I set the whole thing up because I knew it would be her last birthday. She was singing along to all the words, she knew all the songs."

Katie added: "Molly wants them back for her birthday in June, she's already texted me.

"The women were so excited. I'm just grateful, it's surreal and now so many people have joined in and celebrated her last birthday with us."

Featured Image Credit: SWNS

Topics: US News