Lottery Winners

[bullybeef]

So the £184m Euromillions winners have gone public.

Good luck to them.

They said they won on a lucky dip… however they never said how many lucky dip tickets they purchased for the draw.

No one ever seems to disclose how many tickets they purchased to win the big one.

 

[chrismpw]

Great thread. Will read again.

Needs a poll though.

 

[GoldenToffee]

They appear nice enough, fair play to them. The odds of winning the jackpot are almost non-existent, yet somebody must win. I certainly know my mum has played once a week for about 15 years and never won more than about £100 in total. I don't see why you'd want to go public, like.

If it's me winning eight figures plus I am sorting out my immediate family with £100,000 each, then buying a plot of land in South East Asia and building a big fk off house there and getting me the best wife money can buy.

 

[Buzz Lightroom]

Judging by their interview it sounds like they were only casual lottery players so it was likely to only have been 1 or 2 tickets.

Good luck to them, I hope the money brings them a lot of happiness. It's the kind of money we can only dream of having.

 

[Buzz Lightroom]

I don't see why you'd want to go public, like.

They said they went public because they didn't want to live their lives keeping a secret but surely there must be a middle ground. Surely you can get away with telling all your friends and family without having your mug plastered all over the papers. I certainly wouldn't want a public interview and an oversized cheque presentation.

 

[GoldenToffee]

They said they went public because they didn't want to live their lives keeping a secret but surely there must be a middle ground. Surely you can get away with telling all your friends and family without having your mug plastered all over the papers. I certainly wouldn't want a public interview and an oversized cheque presentation.

Ano yeah. Plus if you move abroad, even if it's within Europe, nobody knows who you are and you're highly unlikely to be targeted in the way they probably will now if they stick around the UK. Every cart will be wanting a handout from them now, family members and ex-friends crawling out of the woodwork, etc.

 

[chrismpw]

They appear nice enough, fair play to them. The odds of winning the jackpot are almost non-existent, yet somebody must win. I certainly know my mum has played once a week for about 15 years and never won more than about £100 in total. I don't see why you'd want to go public, like.

If it's me winning eight figures plus I am sorting out my immediate family with £100,000 each, then buying a plot of land in South East Asia and building a big fk off house there and getting me the best wife money can buy.

If you won that much might be prepared to have gender reassignment to be that wife!

*no need to send pics

 

[GoldenToffee]

If you won that much might be prepared to have gender reassignment to be that wife!

*no need to send pics

NOICE!

 

[Buzz Lightroom]

Every cart will be wanting a handout from them now, family members and ex-friends crawling out of the woodwork, etc.

If I had that amount of money I'd actually be tempted to give some money to pretty much everyone that crawled out the woodwork. Close friends and family that I actually like would get a decent amount of money that could potentially change their life but the old friends that suddenly reappear out of no where might get £10k for a new car but more importantly to stop any future begging. Any old grudges can be put to bed when you're that rich. I'd rather use the money for good and to help make people happy.

I've always said to the missus that if I was rich enough, when I went out for dinner I'd secretly pay for everyone's dinner in the restaurant. They'd never know it was me and the wouldn't take advantage of it because they wouldn't know it was paid for until they came to leave.

 

[Toast]

They said they went public because they didn't want to live their lives keeping a secret but surely there must be a middle ground. Surely you can get away with telling all your friends and family without having your mug plastered all over the papers. I certainly wouldn't want a public interview and an oversized cheque presentation.

You get financial and personal advice from Camelot long term if you go public.

If you stay quiet you get no help from them at all.

I’d imagine they could point you in the right direction early on.

I’d absolutely swerve it and do one out of this country big style myself, but each to their own.

 

[Buzz Lightroom]

You get financial and personal advice from Camelot long term if you go public.

You should really get that by default if you win a jackpot of any amount regardless of if you go public or not.

Personally I'd rather stay private and get my financial advice somewhere else. I'm pretty sensible when it comes to money and I have spreadsheets to control everything but I'd have no idea on the tax implaicatons of winning such a huge amount of money and giving parts of it to others so advice would definitely be needed.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

You should really get that by default if you win a jackpot of any amount regardless of if you go public or not.

Personally I'd rather stay private and get my financial advice somewhere else. I'm pretty sensible when it comes to money and I have spreadsheets to control everything but I'd have no idea on the tax implaicatons of winning such a huge amount of money and giving parts of it to others so advice would definitely be needed.

Camelot would probably charge you for their advice.
The only advice you'd need was how your family and friends or charities would miss out paying any windfall taxes .

 

[COYBL25]

You get financial and personal advice from Camelot long term if you go public.

If you stay quiet you get no help from them at all.

I’d imagine they could point you in the right direction early on.

I’d absolutely swerve it and do one out of this country big style myself, but each to their own.

Spot on.

Quite bizarrely I know a few lottery winners :

A syndicate of ten cabbies, that won 30 mil between 10 of them.
A syndicate of girls in a factory, that won 3.5 mil between them.
An assistant manager of a pub, that won 5.5 mil.
A single lad, who is a joiner and won the big prize at the time.

The cabbies kept quiet and no one, other than friends and family ever found out.

All the others went public and took the advice from Camelot.

The only one who ignored the advice, was the lad who was the manager in a pub, who blew the lot in 18 mths on the gee gees and the high life ( seriously )

 

[COYBL25]

Camelot would probably charge you for their advice.
The only advice you'd need was how your family and friends or charities would miss out paying any windfall taxes .

Their advice is free mate, a lad who I used to play footy with, missus, was one of their advisers.

 

[Buzz Lightroom]

Camelot would probably charge you for their advice.
The only advice you'd need was how your family and friends or charities would miss out paying any windfall taxes .

When you've got £184m in the bank I think you're also going to need some advice on where to keep it.
I doubt you'd want to be keeping it in your normal savings account getting 0.01% interest.
You're also going to need an extremely well written will to make sure half the money doesn't disappear in inheritance tax when you overdose on coke.