Former strangers Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench of Phoenix, Arizona, spent Thanksgiving 2023 together and invited a new stranger to join their eighth holiday celebration.

Arizona residents Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench will continue their beloved Thanksgiving tradition for the ninth year. Their texting mishap in 2016 went viral, leading to an unlikely friendship.

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton are still carrying on their unlikely Thanksgiving tradition, seven years after meeting when she accidentally texted him and invited him to Thanksgiving, thinking it ...

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton, who became unlikely friends after a mistaken text message in 2016, are continuing their tradition of meeting for Thanksgiving in 2024. ABC News. Video.

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton in a photo posted to Instagram, Nov. 1, 2023, to celebrate the two having their 8th Thanksgiving together after Dench accidentally texted Hinton.

Wanda Dench, the grandma who once accidentally invited a stranger to Thanksgiving instead of her grandson back in 2016, has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Wanda Dench accidentally texted Jamal Hinton in 2016, inviting him to Thanksgiving thinking he was a family member. They're not related, but he's been with her for the holiday ever since.

Wanda Dench says she still plans to celebrate Thanksgiving with Jamal Hinton, just like they have every year since she accidentally texted him an invite Jamal Hinton/X.com Jamal Hinton, center ...

Wanda Dench, who became known as “Thanksgiving Grandma” after mistakenly inviting Jamal Hinton over for the holidays, shared she is ready to find love again after watching The Golden Bachelor.

Grandma's text mix-up turns into holiday tradition for teen 01:02. For the seventh year in a row, Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton are getting together for Thanksgiving.

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton celebrated their fifth Thanksgiving on Friday in Mesa, Arizona, but there was an empty seat at the dinner table. After 43 years of marriage, ...

Wanda Dench and Jamal Hinton are a pair of unlikely friends. All it took to bring them together was a couple of texts to the wrong number. Dench meant to text her grandson to invite him to her ...