To be blubbing watching the live news conference with the couple who have won £115 million in the new year lottery?

[drivinmecrazy]

It maybe a cliché but watching the Irish couple who have won the lottery thinking that it couldn't have happened to nicer people.
They seem so genuine. Taking about the biggest joy is going to be helping family, friends, their communities and charities.
Usually don't get caught up in these stories but I think I'm slightly in love.
Their personalities just seem to shine through.
I wish them great happiness and joy spending the money.

I didn't see it but good luck to them. I'd tick the 'no publicity box' as we we used to say with the old football pools. I hope they don't get negative stuff happening to them but I expect some of it is inevitable, sadly.

Not true @WhoPooped

Here’s an excerpt from an article with an interview from a spokesman from Camelot:

How long do you hold my hand?
It kind of depends - some people might not have anyone around them to chat to, particularly those who wish to remain anonymous. So they might choose to stay in touch a lot longer, just to talk things over.

By and large though, it's those who elect to have their win made public with whom we have the longest relationship because they act as advocates for us. The private ones generally tend to move on the quickest.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/euromillions-jackpot-lotto-winner-next-11968467.amp

Well, only from friends and family, who you would probably tell anyway. Would I hell tell family! Maybe DSis, but no other bugger. They have begging plates the size of the moon and a sense of entitlement to match!

If we won we would just move... family would never know!

Good luck to them. The list of people I would tell currently stands at 3, and I probably wouldn’t tell them the full amount either.

I imagine Camelot are quite persuasive about going public, but let’s face it, £115m can buy you plenty of finanacial advice independently of Camelot.

comfortablyglum do you reply to all the ones that you are not donating to?

@bitoutofpractice I so wanted to hear those calls! So I did a scope around and found the Lottery's YouTube channel - they've got a category page for all of them!

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV3DqCeVRxgSLS6HifciRvTal02f2youK

Goodbye my productive afternoon...

I live in NI and I really don’t think you’d have a mission of keeping it secret here. Although we have a couple of cities and some big towns, it’s ond of those places where you’ll discover that your neighbour is related to the three times removed cousin of the sister of the first boy you kissed in school. 😁 We like to chat.

@thisonehasalittlecar No we get far too many. We used to send a generic reply back along the lines of ‘thank you for contacting XXXX - we appreciate your email however are unable to help with your request in this instance. XXXX does a huge amount for charity and good causes which you can read about here link to website charity page

However this inevitably led to more replies and ‘but surely they can help just this once’ so we decided no response was a better approach.

We do reply to some more personally - it depends on the circumstances. Out of the 1500 emails we get a week l probably forward maybe 2 or 3 a month to celebs PA for them to look at personally (and she may well not pass those on so the chances of celeb seeing a random request is tiny). The ‘vetting system’ we have as had to be quite hardcore otherwise the cheeky fucker brigade would make celeb bankrupt in a week

We have one of the big winners living a few streets away and it caused fucking mayhem when they went public. We had the Daily Mail helpfully advising us of what all the houses in the local area were worth... we had them camped out in the local Tesco carpark to try to snap the "winners still going and doing their shopping like normal people" and we had so many dodgy relatives coming out of the woodwork all over the place it was nuts.

Ooo @DollyWilde thank you for the link. I'll listen later (I'm suppose to be working)

I think the potential for kidnapping etc would be huge..... I don't ever understand why people go public. I think the same about a lot of slebs who allow their kids photos to be published.

The only reason I would be blubbing is because it wasn't me that won it - but then you have to be in it to win it. As for going public, no way would I do that. It's perfectly possible to find good financial advice without Camelot's help.

I disagree with the PP who would have preferred multiple people winning £10m rather than 1 winner. The house I would want to buy in London could easily cost £5m - the remaining £5m wouldn't be enough to do all I would want to do.

A while ago I had a dream in which I inherited £35 billion from a long lost love - I can't tell you how gutted I was when I awoke

They can offer advice on investing/put you in touch with experts on suddenly owning large amounts of money - but only if you go public.

Even if this were true, it really isn’t hard to just handle this yourself. You’d have to be unbelievably silly to go public just to be pointed in the direction of lawyers and investment managers (the latter of which you should avoid anyway).

All people need to do is go to one of the country’s biggest law firms and retain the services of a partner in the Trust & Estates division. Being given a name you can simply google yourself isn’t worth risking your safety and quality of life over.

I agree they are nuts to go public, but each to their own. Do you remember the TV programme "At Home with the Braithwaites" about that (ficitonal) family who won millions on the lottery, they ended setting up a charity for all the begging letters and that became their job.

Lovely to win enough millions to set you up for life and not have to worry about any financial pressures, but publicly managing hundreds of millions is more of a burden.

Had to pop back to this thread as an email turned up this afternoon asking my ‘celeb boss’ if they wouldn’t mind ‘sticking $1million on a pre paid debit card and forwarding it to them as they went a bit mad over Xmas’

And no, it wasn’t a typo - they wanted $1 million (celeb is well known in the USA hence the $$) - nothing like aiming high I suppose. Maybe they thought they might get $100 at least?

Let me get that sorted then....aka delete email as fast as my little fingers will allow!

I am happy for them as they seem very nice and down to earth (I’m obvs more deserving though) but I do think they’re crazy for going public. I hope all is well for them.

Does anyone know anything now about the lady from the ROI who won around the same amount about ten or so years ago? I think she had kidnapping threats made against her family?

I think she went and had her teeth veneered before going public with the cheque.

My plan to keep a massive win "relatively" secret;

Don't tell anyone, leave most of the money in the bank (after clearing debts and mortgage) and start making plans, work as normal for a good few months just to keep up the charade, leave work saying have came in to some money, let immediate family know I've won some money on the lottery but never actually tell them when or how much was won, give them some money to help them out telling them to try and keep it secret e.g. enough money to clear their debts and mortgage and have maybe enough left over to splash on things that could be passed off as paid for by their own wages or if they need to; tell people they themselves won some money on lotto/scratchcard whatever.

Then start spending on all the flash stuff, people will know you've came into money but will never know how much or when, which is the only real reason the newspapers are interested, there are still people who won loads that have remained anonymous for years, I doubt the Daily Mail would be interested in digging up dirt on someone who may have won the lottery 6 years ago, to the outside viewer they would just be a rich person, of which there are plenty, if there's no photo of them standing behind a big cheque squirting a champagne bottle, no-one will probably care.

Comfortablynumb I imagine a celeb like Bill Gates would get those types of begging letters.

We have a TV in our public reception area at work and this came on the screen this morning. The receptionist tells me that one by one my colleagues walked past reception all morning and exclaimed 'are they mad? The paramilitaries will want their cut now!' Although Moira, where they live, is rather nice and not the sort of area where that sort of thing is usually an issue, it's a small country and they'll not be hard to track down. They seem lovely, but they're mad.

Dolores Mcnarama

www.lottery24.com/euromillions/winners/dolores-mcnamara-80-million-euromillions-jackpot-winner-from-ireland/

Why oh why did they go public? They'll never know another day of peace.

Kidnapping
Nutters
Paramilitaries

No way would I go public.

@Bungalowbeth Weirdly, I was googling her (didn't know her name) the other day - only I thought she was from Scotland which is why I was unable to find anything. She became a bit of a recluse, didn't she?

Also, I used to hate lottery stories printed in the red tops that had a special hotline number at the end of the article for people to ring if they knew anybody that had won the lottery. I don't know if any stories ever came from anyone ringing them but it is absolutely despicable to 'out' someone like that who didn't choose to go public.

Kidnapping
Nutters
Paramilitaries

No way would I go public.

As well as all those, I think it would stunt me as a person. I would never know if I ever met anybody new in the future whether they were genuinely nice, whether they were friendly with me because they liked me or because they knew I had money. I could imagine feeling quite lonely actually.