Ageing with attitude: Gamely granny goes viral

Shirley Curry from Virginia has been playing video games for over 20 years. She talks to Margaret Jennings about the benefits of gaming and becoming a YouTube sensation.

SHE’S been tagged the ‘Grandma Gamer’ and well deserves that title, since at age 80, she has been gaming online for over 20 years — and has actually got nine grandchildren (and one great-grandchild).

But it was when Shirley Curry began commentating on the online games she plays, just over a year ago, that her virtual and real worlds united, spiralling her into the social media stratosphere.