Would you go public with a big lottery win?

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The winners of the £184 million lotto win have gone public, a couple in their 40’s with small children. They say they went public as they want to help so many friends and family and it would have been difficult for them to keep it a secret.
Good luck to them, I say, I hope they have a great adventure on it but I don’t think I would ever want to go public, I would give lots away to family, friends and charities then slink off somewhere away from the hubbub of life.
Would you ever go public like them?

I'd actually thought about this because I was sure this win was mine! 🤣🤣🤣

And no way would I go public. Talk about making a rod for your back.

I wish them all the best though and hope they don't regret it.

Absolutely barmy to go public.
Kidnap, begging letters, you'd need heavy security, I think to protect the children and animals.

If I won the Lottery, I'd try to buy a specific house near mum's and live in the small Georgian stable block... Somewhere I'd always wanted to live, but that alone would take many, many millions.

It would be frightening to have so much money and for it to be public.

Family and charity of course.
Will be interesting to see if they are still together in a few years time.

Nope - with a win that large I'd be worried about putting the safety of my kid at risk by disclosing we had that much money.

Exactly my plan. I'd keep it quiet until a smaller jackpot was won in my area and then tell my family I had won that. I'd donate a lot to charitable causes so that the initial sum was greatly reduced. I knew a couple who won a huge amount on the pools and they stayed in their council flat in a not great area as they were terrified of people begging them for money. Their blabber mouth daughter told me.

Not in a million years, I wouldn’t want to attraction any attention, good or bad

It's only because I was feeling a bit off this morning and dealing with the bills / meter readings etc that I thought ' money goes to money' hearing about that couple that won the euro millions jackpot , but only because the daily mail online had to shoe horn in how much their current house was worth , which is irrelevant really!

Good luck to them though : they said that they felt they couldn't have kept it quiet , which is fair enough, but I think I would have done! Maybe the lottery people tell them to go public?
I just hope they don't receive too many begging letters or bad publicity too. I hope they can enjoy the money

so if people won all that money & didn't go public but told family would they not bother with any security? I'd still be scared of being targeted.

No way!

I'd be bags packed, moving into a grand old house in the middle of nowhere before the ink on the cheque had dried

I have read that many with huge wins that go public end up with so many letters asking for cash : it is out of order :(
I think I'd stay quite.

Nope not a chance. I think it's setting themselves up for many many people to come begging for money. That won't be a nice position to be in.

Many big jackpot winners often spilt up too. ( I hope they don't, but it happens)
The other thing I couldn't handle would be the jealousy from others or working out how much to give people too! How much is enough ?
Minefield, but a nice one if you do it right snd it doesn't ruin your life.

So no doubt you'd have found out anyway eventually

Instead, now they have all and sundry knowing their names and, likely, where they live, so everyone can send begging letters.

It's impossible to keep a massive win like that totally secret, but there's no point in splashing your names all over the papers!

I would definitely not be going public either!

I love how it's always ' they are now richer than Adele ' as if she would care to be honest! 😂
I had my eye on that win , but I guess I never will win it or ever be richer than a famous singer.
It must be surreal to have that much in the bank!

Absolutely no way I would go public!!! I would tell family and friends I had won but lie about the amount and say it was far less.
A huge win changes how people are towards you.

No way.

With that kind of money and going public, I'd be getting myself and children 24/7 personal security each.

Absolutely not. If I won a sum like that I wouldn't even tell close friends or family exactly how much I'd won. I'd probably move away in fact. I would gift some to friends and family but I'd ask them not to tell anyone where it came from, I'd like to think I could trust them not to.

No!!! I wouldn't even tell dh 😆. Well I might tell him, but I would give most of it away anyway. That would give me more ppeasure than a spending spree.

No! I've just been reading about it and wondering why you'd do that.

It's not very sensible.

Hell, no!
I would hate to be in the press for any reason, let alone this. I would probably tell my mum and best friend about a win, and that is that. I hardly speak to my siblings, so I would be pretty fucked off if they came to me expecting money.

No way. I might tell some people that we'd come into some good fortune on the financial side but not how much we'd won. Imagine all the begging letters you'd get. Plus potential theft etc. Once your name is in a newspaper people can find out where you live.

God no. My wife has advised lottery winners and says it can ruin their lives - constant begging letters.

No I wouldn't, there is some middle ground and I trust my family not to spread it around.

I wonder why they went public then ?
There must be a reason? I know they said about not keeping it quite, but you'd give it a go.
They have mentioned they have primary aged children, anyone that malicious can dig about on the internet to find out more , it is quite scary I think :(

If I won £5m I wouldn't tell anyone apart from my closest family and friends. If I won £180m I still wouldn't go public. I'd like to think I'd give a lot away to charities and medical research etc as that much money you'd become so out of touch with reality you'd probably become lonely and miserable. People that make that much money make other super rich friends and develop a rich lifestyle. I imagine if I had 9 figures and all my friends were on £40k a year I'd become tedious to be around very quickly!

God no,I wouldn't hide it from my family and friends but I couldn't be doing with the begging letters, .