Neil Trotter claims he told several people he would win hours before his lucky numbers came up
If you supposedly had the ability to ‘predict’ that you would win big on the lottery, you think you’d be able to foretell what the lifestyle of a a millionaire would be like too.
But Neil Trotter – who scooped nearly £108 million on the EuroMillions in March 2014 – admitted that he wasn’t prepared for just how different it would be.
Lottery winner who got £108 million explains it was difficult to adjust
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The former car mechanic, from Coulsdon, Surrey, explained that he struggled to come to terms with the staggering number of zeroes in his bank account after his huge windfall a decade ago.
He had purchased £10 worth of Lucky Dip tickets and ended up bagging the £107.9 million jackpot after matching seven numbers.
Some people might reckon it was simply a stroke of luck that Trotter earned such a large sum of money – but according to him, it was written in the stars all along.
Speaking of his alleged mystic abilities in 2019, he said (via the Daily Star): “Being a Trotter, I knew I’d be a millionaire one day – and I somehow knew I’d win the lottery.
“I used to tell my dad I’d have a house with a lake, and he’d say, ‘In your dreams, son!'”
Del Boy and Rodney would be proud of this lad’s get-rich-quick efforts.
Trotter also claimed that he managed to predict his colossal win just hours before the EuroMillions draw took place.
Neil Trotter won nearly £108 million on the EuroMillions in 2014 (National Lottery)
Trotter continued: “I had such a strong feeling on the Friday that I’d win, I told the secretary at work.”
He also decided to tell his father’s friends that ‘this time tomorrow’ he would be rolling in it – only for his manifestations to materialise later that evening.
Following his win, Trotter says the best advice he received was from officials at Camelot Group, who advised him to not ‘do anything straight away’ – however, it didn’t take long for him to spend some of his cash.
He ditched his job as a mechanic, swapped his ‘old banger’ for a 2014 McLaren 650S Spider and purchased a mansion on a 500-acre estate which boasts ‘at least’ six lakes.
Trotter previously said he had also bought a house for his younger sister with his mammoth winnings, as well as a pony for his daughter.
Although not working another day in your life and limitless shopping sounds like heaven to most people, the millionaire said the novelty soon wore off for him.
The Brit said he found it difficult to adjust to his millionaire status (National Lottery)
In an update shared in 2022, Trotter said he found it difficult to adapt to his new lifestyle.
“Going from having to work to not having to work any more was quite a strange thing to adjust to,” he said in 2022, according to The Mirror. “I soon found out that sitting at home watching telly all day was quite boring.”
Trotter then discussed why he decided to go public with his win.
“If you want to live the dream, which is to have the house, the money and spend it, you’ve got to go public,” he went on.
But despite getting a bit bored from time to time, he’s still grateful for where those lucky numbers have led him in life.
Trotter added: “Winning allowed me to go back to my first love – racing. And I’ve the house with a lake.”Featured Image Credit: PA/Chris Ratcliffe/National Lottery/PA Wire
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Updated 20:27 30 Apr 2024 GMT+1Published 20:28 30 Apr 2024 GMT+1
Brit says she’s ‘not interested’ after receiving phone call telling her she won £100,000 on lottery
She only realised she’d won the People’s Postcode Lottery after they showed up to her street
A woman who won £100,000 on the lottery had to be convinced she’d actually managed to win the money after believing someone was trying to scam her.
She and nine others won the money on the People’s Postcode Lottery, but she ended up hanging up on the call to inform her of her winnings as she told them she was ‘not interested’.
The Sun reports that Anne from Heald Green, Greater Manchester, mistakenly thought she was being scammed when the phone call came through.
The lottery then tried to send her an email, but she thought that was also part of the scam, and in most cases she’d have been completely right to be suspicious.
She said: “I told my daughters and they said don’t click on anything and don’t give any bank details.”
When they called to say she was one of the Postcode Lottery winners she thought it was a scam and told them she was ‘not interested’. (Steve Allen)
Normally that would be exactly the right advice to follow, except for the one-in-a-million moment when you’ve actually won the lottery.
It wasn’t until some representatives from the People’s Postcode Lottery showed up on her street that Anne finally learned this wasn’t all an attempt to part her from her money, quite the reverse in fact.
She told The Sun: “There was a lovely party atmosphere when they were here in the street.
“I peeped round the hedge and saw the cheques, I was trying to see the amount as they opened them.”
Anne ended up with a jackpot of £100,000, and nine other people on her street won as well.
As for what she’s going to do with the money, £10,000 of it is going to the village hall and other charities like a Multiple Sclerosis therapy centre which helps people like her husband.
Other residents on the street who got some money were Anne’s neighbours Roy and Julie, with their £100,000 coming just as their boiler gave up the ghost.
Julie was one of the others on the street to win the lottery, and one of the first things she’ll need to spend the winnings on is fixing the boiler. (Steve Allen)
Julie thought she might have won £1,000 when she got the phone call and was stunned to see a couple more zeroes than she’d been expecting.
While much needed, the £100,000 jackpots won on the street don’t quite come close to the life changing, and in many cases life ruining, amounts that some people claim.
Should you ever be the lucky soul who wins the lottery and are absolutely sure it’s not a scam then it’s worth taking the financial advice on offer.
A National Lottery advisor said that the biggest mistake many people make with their winnings is giving too much of it away before figuring out what they want to do with it.
Anne’s plan to give a tenth of her winnings away sounds pretty sensible and well thought out, but many lottery winners fritter away large amounts of cash and before they know it a fortune it should take several lifetimes to spend is gone in a few years.Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Photo/Steve Allen
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Updated 16:26 26 Feb 2024 GMTPublished 16:27 26 Feb 2024 GMT
Man who won £22 million on lottery is still working after almost 30 years to ‘keep sanity’
National Lottery winner Mark Gardiner took home a whopping £22,590,829 in 1995.
The man who took home an eye-watering £22 million has revealed why he is still working almost 30 years on from his big win.
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Once your bills, your family and your financial future are all taken care of, is having millions of pounds as fun as it’s made out to be?
Probably…
But while the idea of not having to go to work ever again sounds like a good one, Lotto winner Mark Gardiner has opened up on his possible ‘fear of the unknown’.
Mark won a whopping £22,590,829 along with his business partner, Paul Maddison, back in 1995.
The pair ran a small glazing firm in Hastings, East Sussex.
Mark has always remained wary of the possible side-effects of having overnight wealth.
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“The analogy I like to use is that, whatever was going on in your life before — all the little seeds that are planted — the win pours water on them all and up they all sprout,” he told the Daily Mail.
“I always say to people that before I won I had a box of problems, but the box was quite small.
“The lottery enabled me to shelve that box of problems, but then someone came along and gave me a much bigger box.”
But while business partner Paul did what most of us would do – and quit work – Mark decided to do the opposite.
“Whether it was nervousness, or fear of the unknown, I thought, ‘I’m going to keep working’,” the now 61-year-old explained.
“There was no lightning bolt. It was more a case of clinging on to what I knew. It was my safety rail and I thought I would take time to decide when I was going to let it go. Weeks, months, I had no idea.
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“One minute I had £11 and the next minute I had £11 million and, if I’m honest, I was probably frightened. Nothing prepares you for it.
“Camelot didn’t give us an instruction book, there was no manual, we didn’t go on a course; you’re given it, bang, there you go. It’s fairly overwhelming.”
Mark revealed that ex-wives and ex-girlfriends were amongst those who were quick to ask him for money.
“It felt like every other letter I opened had ‘We act on behalf of’ as the opening line,” he explained.
“They were from family, people I’d worked with, someone who thought I’d nicked their pencil case at school — basically, anybody from the past that felt a grievance.
“It was just so bizarre.”Featured Image Credit: GMB
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Updated 17:59 22 Nov 2024 GMTPublished 19:12 19 Nov 2024 GMT
Lottery winner revealed boss was ‘not happy’ as he resigned on the day he won huge fortune
Who would actually be pleased if a newcomer beat them to the grand prize?
Winning the National Lottery is a fantasy for many of those that play, but for a select few, it became a reality.
Today marks 30 years since the first ever National Lottery draw, with 7,400 millionaires being made as a result, and 30 of them have come together to celebrate the milestone.
Two of these winners are Brits Matt Myles, from Hereford, who took home £1 million back in 2014, and Jamie Heavens, from Bournemouth, who won the same amount in 2016.
Despite winning the same amount, the two went in different directions after taking home their lavish winnings.
Jamie is one of 30 winners that is sharing their stories on the National Lottery’s 30th anniversary (National Lottery)
Jamie found out about his winnings in a bizarre manner – he was on the way to his roofing job, and was having trouble finding a service station that would accept his fuelling card for his truck.
Finally, at the third service station he went to, a series of events would change his life forever.After getting in line at the store, he realised he had the wrong flavour drink, and he went back to change it.
Getting back in line, he saw that the man in front of him got a scratch card, to which he revealed that when he was 16, he bought a scratch card, though today the minimum age to buy one is 18, and won £100 after someone in front of him bought one, so it became a tradition.
Jamie bought one on this day in 2016, and won £1 million as a result.
Sharing the good news with his uncle, who he worked with, and the rest of his family, they were all sceptical until he got the official call to confirm his win.
The Bournemouth-based father went on to invest his money into a business, albeit after treating himself to a Mercedes GLA and his girlfriend to a BMW of her own. Not too shabby.