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Winning the Euromillions

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Ellabella989 · 04/10/2019 16:34

If you won the £169 million jackpot tonight, would you go public or keep it private amongst your immediate family?
I’d like to think I wouldn’t go public but it’s such a huge amount of money that someone is bound to find out and blab.

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GruciusMalfoy · 04/10/2019 16:37

I wouldn't be grinning like a maniac in the papers. Imagine the begging letters stemming from that. I'd tell close friends and family, but I've no doubt it would get out and be known in the local area.

MrsPerfect12 · 04/10/2019 16:39

I wouldn't go public but I don't know if you could get away without telling family and friends. They'll blab and your town would know anyways.

firelightbright · 04/10/2019 16:41

I definitely wouldn't go public.

sunshineandshowers21 · 04/10/2019 16:41

i definitely wouldn’t go public! i could just imagine the stories written about me! the woman who became a mum at 15 and lives on a council estate 😂 the papers would have a field day!

GreenTulips · 04/10/2019 16:43

But you could afford to sue

Buscake · 04/10/2019 16:43

Definitely private. I don’t think I’d tell anyone other than my husband! Would be crazy generous with family and friends but just say our business had had a particularly successful period?!

NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace · 04/10/2019 16:44

I'd keep it private amongst me. And only me. My family have no need to know Blush

nancy75 · 04/10/2019 16:44

I would tell friends I had won the lottery but on a week when the winning weren’t so high. I wouldn’t be in the papers!

Gojojogogogo · 04/10/2019 16:45

Probably wouldn't even tell family tbh

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 04/10/2019 16:47

Id have to tell family and friends....maybe not the amount, but my new mansion, NYC crash pad and Bentley convertible would probably give it away

Pheasantplucker2 · 04/10/2019 16:47

I'd keep it quiet for as long as possible - I would try and do a month without telling anyone except OH, then I'd claim I'd won a smaller one - I wouldn't be specific but imply it was £1 million or something to close family and friends. That way I could treat them but hopefully it wouldn't be so newsworthy that everyone would get to find out and send begging letters..

With that obscene amount of money it would be criminal to keep it all - I would set up a charity foundation but it would be anonymous.

LaurieFairyCake · 04/10/2019 16:47

I wouldn't tell anyone. I'd immediately give 500k to each family member/friend (that's about 80 millions worth)

Then I would build a massive wellbeing centre that I would run in London. That's the rest of it Grin

ContadoraExplorer · 04/10/2019 16:48

I'd keep it to just me and my DH. We would get around the problem by announcing to family that we had a modest(by comparison) win on Lotto at some point in the future so we could help them with paying off mortgages etc. I love our families but someone would accidentally let it slip and then everyone would know.

5zeds · 04/10/2019 16:49

I’d tell dh and keep it secret from everyone else. I suspect he’d find it impossible to keep the secret though Grin

EscapeTheCastle · 04/10/2019 16:49

I wouldn't tell anyone. That's the sort of money that would attract serious criminals. Con men, Kidnappers. Gold diggers.

Sorry to be negative but if you win tonight, keep shtum.

HappyPunky · 04/10/2019 16:50

I'd tell people I'd won the millionaire raffle to explain getting a nice house and treating people but I would never tell anyone the full amount.

Willow2017 · 04/10/2019 16:51

There are only 2 people I would tell.
No way would I go public.
I would just sit quiet for about a month while I planned my escape then me and kids would just up.and disappear to our dream home far away from here.😂

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Ellabella989 · 04/10/2019 16:52

That’s a good idea to tell those close to you a few weeks later that you had won a smaller jackpot

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CassandraCross · 04/10/2019 16:52

I wouldn't do the public in the paper, interviewed on TV thing but of course all my family and friends would know. My husband sounds like yours 5zeds he would find it well nigh impossible not to shout it from the roftopsGrin.

FairfaxAikman · 04/10/2019 16:54

As far as I understand it if you go public you get financial advice and help managing the media. If you don't and the media find out anyway you are on your own.
There must surely be other reasons for doing it as well, otherwise no one would do it.

Willow2017 · 04/10/2019 16:55

Btw I would help.out a family member and a friend once all.the furore had died down. And a few charities. Nobody else I know would get a red cent there is nobody else who bothers with me.

MyKingdomForACaramel · 04/10/2019 16:55

One of the biggest anxieties for the super wealthy is security - so I feel that going to the papers would be asking for trouble.

GinDaddy · 04/10/2019 16:55

Telling people that you'd won a smaller jackpot?!

Madness...

£169,000,000 will tempt most people into some serious house/car spending activity. The kind that would show up if someone claimed they'd won £7,200,000

Why not just be real with those close to you? Yes they may then "judge" what you then give them from the pot, but isn't that what you're avoiding anyway with this malarkey?

TheRobinIsBobbingAlong · 04/10/2019 16:55

I'd try to keep it as private as I could, and like others I'd pretend I'd won a smaller amount on another week. However, if one UK ticket won the jackpot tonight then papers like The Sun would have a damned good try at finding out who it was. I'd hate to be outed just because of all the criminals and begging letters it would attract, and I wouldn't want my family put at any risk. If I won I'd treat my closest family and friends, and use a chunk of it to help out some good causes.

Jellybeansincognito · 04/10/2019 16:57

I’d keep it private, We’d move to a town where no one knew us, and would gift our close friends and family money and make them sign legal forms for privacy.

I’d want to do a lot of good with the money, but I wouldn’t be able to live my life sinking in begging letters and with the media down my throat/ god knows how many unlawful people trying to rob me.