£61 Million EuroMillions winners tell story of how they discovered they'd hit the jackpot!

Burnley Express

The £61 Million EuroMillions winners shared an exhilarating tale recounting the moment they discovered they had struck the jackpot, a story brimming with disbelief, excitement, and newfound possibilities.

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00:00 Dazed, it's surreal, it's a huge amount of money.

00:05 Nothing that you could, you dream of winning the lottery

00:08 but you never dream, you never really think

00:10 it's gonna be you.

00:11 - Yeah.

00:12 - But it is.

00:13 (audience laughing)

00:14 Yeah, it's just taken a lot of computing really.

00:18 - Yeah.

00:20 - I checked my work emails again

00:21 and there was another message from the lottery saying,

00:24 you need to check your account, you've won some money.

00:26 So I thought, well there's obviously a glitch here

00:28 'cause I've already checked and it was two pound 60.

00:30 So I logged in and it said that you've won

00:34 61,708,231 pounds and ring this number.

00:39 We have a WhatsApp group with my daughter.

00:40 So I said, look, can one of you ring me urgently?

00:43 There's nothing wrong, but can one of you ring me urgently?

00:46 So one of them rang me and I said to them,

00:47 look, can you log into the lottery back in England

00:51 and into my lottery account?

00:52 So I gave her the details and she logged in

00:56 and she just went, oh my God, oh my God.

00:59 And at that point we sort of,

01:02 we weren't really believing it, but you know, whatever.

01:05 So I tried another couple of times to ring this number

01:07 and we Googled the number to check

01:09 that it was a national lottery number,

01:11 that we were ringing a genuine number.

01:12 - Yeah.

01:14 - Couple more times, still wasn't working.

01:15 So I said to Debs, come on, we'll go in the hire car,

01:18 we'll drive around until we find somewhere

01:19 with a good signal and we'll just pull up

01:22 and ring them again.

01:23 So, and after asking a few questions

01:27 for security and whatever, she went,

01:30 I've got to go and talk to my manager

01:32 and I'll be back in a few seconds.

01:34 So she came back on and she said,

01:35 I want to say this right,

01:37 you've won 61,708,231 pounds.

01:43 And obviously we were stunned,

01:46 but also very excited at the time.

01:48 It was almost like Del and Rodney

01:50 when they come out of Sotheby's

01:51 and we start cheering and whatever.

01:54 - Punch in the air.

01:55 - Punch in the air, the car's rocking and whatever.

01:57 But even so, in the back of your mind,

01:58 you're still thinking,

01:59 this is all part of some sophisticated scam.

02:03 So I said to her, can you prove to me

02:07 that you're not scamming me?

02:08 And she went, no, I can't really, no.

02:12 - But you had called the official number.

02:13 - I had called the official number,

02:14 but it was just, you know,

02:16 even so you still find it difficult to comprehend.

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