To be a bit frustrated with lottery winners lack of imagination?

[angelos02]

To the couple that just won £33 million saying they'd pay for their daughter to fly first class back from Australia. Get a private jet ffs. Buy a yacht & the staff you'd need. Bring back that 'spend spend spend' woman!

[Kingfisherfree]

Yes wasted on them!

[AnyFucker]

God why would you go public ?

[Unacceptable]

Why do some people go public?
Imagine it'd be hard to completely hide the fact you'd won that much money but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable going public

[CaptainCrunch]

Viv Nicholson died penniless and her husband was killed in a car crash, not the best role model for a big cash winner.

[GinandJag]

I think people go public so that they can spend the money. It's pretty difficult to make such a lifestyle change without coming clean.

[wonkylampshade]

They are from the same part of the world from me - they've also said they're going to spend some money helping the people who were flooded in the Borders recently so I think they sound like nice people!

[Mebathiscold]

Maybe they want the attention of being known and don't realise how many begging and sob story letters they are going to get. I'd never go public! Imagine all the people who will come crawling out the woodwork now, ugh.

[BloodyPlantagenets]

Ive read that Camelot support you with financial advice and how to handle the publicity but ONLY if you go public through them.

[AnyFucker]

Of course I would tell my friends and family but to open it up to a whole world of strangers and publicity...no way

[TattyDevine]

I wouldn't mind friends, family, and wider local community knowing (like say school community etc, it would get around wouldn't it - word of mouth, gossip etc) but I wouldn't go public as in national news. In terms of local community, friends and family, they'd either find out or really wonder if you did seem to suddenly have a LOT of money - I'd rather they knew the truth than started speculating. But nationally, knowing my name and area, no thanks. And the ariel shots of your house in the Daily Mail etc...no thanks!

[SomebodySedateMe]

Early on in national lottery history a neighbour of ours won 1.6 million - a big jackpot back then. She didn't go public as such but she rubbed everyone's noses in it locally and alienated everybody she knew. Suddenly decided she was better than everyone.

She declared bankruptcy last year. I tried not to be smug.

[Alibabsandthe40Musketeers]

Bloody £33m can buy you a lot of financial advice. It is such a bullshit line from Camelot, because they are desperate for big winners to go public so that everyone else keeps on buying the tickets.

DH and I have discussed this in detail and we would not go public, and would in fact tell as few people as possible while sharing the money around.

[angelos02]

I wouldn't go public. Also would get my own financial advisor rather than one from Camelot. Just a bit vexed at how extravagant they could be. They were talking about buying a diamond ring earlier & have probably made tens of thousands in interest just since they won the lottery so no need to pop down to Goldsmiths!

[Alicewasinwonderland]

I am not frustrated by them, I am just bitterly jealous.

Time for a and

[KitKat1985]

Yes they lack imagination. There was a story in the papers once though about an elderly gentleman who won a couple of million on the lottery and when interviewed said he didn't really need anything with the money but had treated himself to a new pair of slippers.

As for not going public, to be fair if I'd won I'd be off buying luxury houses, cars and holidays; so I think people would probably guess!

[ClashCityRocker]

I asked dh what we'd do if we won.

He was genuinely excited - because he could stay at home and watch all the quiz shows like the chase and pointless live rather than sky plussing them

[Sparklingbrook]

I wouldn't tell a soul. They are bonkers for going public.

[MamaLazarou]

I find it so galling when they splurge the lot on massive tellies and holidays. I could do so much more with the money.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

Bora Bora for 3 weeks whilst the publicity died down, no I wouldn't go public.

Job done.

[IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece]

We have a family friend who won £2m through the lottery and the pressure to go public is HUGE....they badger you over it and as a pp said, you get financial advise etc IF you go public

[LizKeen]

I think I would be as frustrating as they are to you if I won the same.

All I really want in life is to own my own house. Once I had bought a house and maybe a new car and took the kids to Disney and went on a wee holiday myself I would look at the rest and be a bit overwhelmed with the responsibility.

Still, its a cross I would be willing to bear. :o

I think they sound lovely and I hope it improves their lives rather than ruins them.

[redhat]

They are all made to take advice. They don't have to follow that advice but they have to take it.

[Cavaradossi]

I have never entered the lottery in my life, but have detailed plans for a sudden windfall of millions, down to the remote, rocky island I'm going to buy, the Louise Bourgeois prints I want, and the scholarship for bolshie girls I'm going to endow.