Dancing grandmother becomes a TikTok sensation after dancing on a table at a steak restaurant in Turkey
A dancing grandmother has become a TikTok sensation after she was filmed boogieing on a table in the popular Turkish resort of Marmaris.
The viral clipwhich has now been viewed nearly 45 million times, shows the white-haired grandmother laying down and waving her hands in the air as she is cheered on by other partygoers.
Wearing a loose floral dress and sensible black sandals, the cheerful pensioner smiles as she balances herself by holding on to a window ledge of the steak restaurant.
Dancing proudly on a table and with toilet paper stuck to the bottom of her shoe, it’s a scene that clubgoers around the world can relate to.
The 21-second clip, posted by the TikTok account @chucklebrothersmarmaris1, is captioned: “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”
In the clip, the white-haired grandmother (pictured) sits low and waves her hands in the air as she is cheered on by other partygoers
The video gets even funnier when you watch it next to the comments, where a man named @ojgm_ has written, “I’m not kidding, this is my grandma.”
When another TikToker asked, “Wait like your grandma, or is this something your grandma would do?”, the man confirmed, “This is my real grandma. We’ve never seen her act like that before.”
With 48,100 comments, the video of the dancing nan clearly struck a chord with TikTok users, with many people celebrating her daring and praising her apparent love for life.
One person commented: ‘Retired but not tired’.
Another wrote: ‘I love seeing how the older generation are loving their lives.’
A third enthused: ‘This is who I want to be when I grow up.’
Someone else claimed the video made his day: ‘I would buy her drinks all night and pay for the taxi home!!! This made my day free. Bless grandma’.
A fifth TikToker added: ‘It’s the toilet roll stuck to her shoe that completes her absolute queenhood.’
Wearing a loose floral dress and sensible black sandals, the cheerful pensioner steady herself by holding on to a window frame of the steak restaurant.
One TikToker recognized the older woman in the clip as his grandmother, while other users praised her courage and love for life
A sixth person, keen to follow in the nan’s footsteps, wrote: ‘This is why I want to move to Marmaris.’
Marmaris is known for its vibrant nightlife on Bar Street, which is home to a large number of drinking establishments, open-air clubs and music venues.
The comments kept coming, with a seventh person saying: ‘Party girls never die, they just need a boost on the tables.’
An eighth made her hopes for her future clear when she wrote: ‘That will be me in 40 years, I can’t tame a legend.’
However, not everyone agreed, with another woman calling the grandmother’s dancing ’embarrassing’.
She claimed: ‘I’m 79 but I wouldn’t be that embarrassing in public.’