Dad who grew up in council house wins £2.5m home in Omaze Million Pound House Draw

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Chris Milnes, 60, scooped the three-tiered, 5,000 sqft new-build property near Poole, Dorset, after entering the Omaze Million Pound House Draw without telling his wife and kids.

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00:00I found out I'd won with a call from a maze. I would have been happy with just a couple

00:18of grand, but suddenly I've got a £2.5 million house. Of course it was a huge surprise to

00:23me that we'd won. What a big surprise for me, I didn't know you'd entered. Never in

00:28my wildest dreams could I imagine that something like this could happen to me, just a small

00:32kid from a council estate in Leeds. It's like something from Grand Designs. I do keep expecting

00:37to see Kevin MacLeod pop his head around the corner and say hi. This house has a bridge,

00:41it's like living in a fort. Can't wait to get down to the cinema, feet up, popcorn.

00:46We've already banked £100k with the prize, which means we could stay here for 10 years

00:50without having to lift a finger. But we love where we live at the moment, so we are going

00:54to sell. What this does, above everything else, it means we can actually buy a house

00:58and have our forever home in our beloved Yorkshire. We can get all our kids on the

01:02property ledger now, and that's just wonderful to give them the start that we never had.

01:07It's really important for us to set them up in the world. Before we sell this place, we

01:12are going to get the family together and really celebrate. It's a wonderful coincidence that

01:17we just happen to live in Pudsey, which of course is where Pudsey Bear comes from.

01:20Unbelievable, £3.15m has well and truly surpassed all of our expectations. We really couldn't

01:33be happier. The funds raised from this brilliant partnership mean that we will be able to support

01:37over 25,000 young people in communities right across the UK. Young people have never needed

01:44this support more. We can reduce the escalation of mental health issues and help minimise

01:49the impacts of living in situations of poverty. From all of us here at BBC Children in Need

01:54and on behalf of all the young people, this will help. A huge thank you to everyone who

02:00entered the Dorset House draw. We're thrilled that the Dorset House draw has raised an incredible

02:05£3.15m for BBC Children in Need. This means the AMAZE community has now raised over £43m

02:15for good causes in the UK. I'm a very keen tennis player and captain of my local team. I had to

02:19actually miss a very important match to come down here for you. It's fair to say AMAZE have

02:24served up an absolute ace with this place.

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