The £61 Million EuroMillions winners shared an exhilarating tale recounting the moment they discovered they had struck the jackpot, a story brimming with disbelief, excitement, and newfound possibilities.
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00:00 Dazed, it's surreal, it's a huge amount of money.
00:05 Nothing that you could, you dream of winning the lottery
00:08 but you never dream, you never really think
00:10 it's gonna be you.
00:11 - Yeah.
00:12 - But it is.
00:13 (audience laughing)
00:14 Yeah, it's just taken a lot of computing really.
00:18 - Yeah.
00:20 - I checked my work emails again
00:21 and there was another message from the lottery saying,
00:24 you need to check your account, you've won some money.
00:26 So I thought, well there's obviously a glitch here
00:28 'cause I've already checked and it was two pound 60.
00:30 So I logged in and it said that you've won
00:34 61,708,231 pounds and ring this number.
00:39 We have a WhatsApp group with my daughter.
00:40 So I said, look, can one of you ring me urgently?
00:43 There's nothing wrong, but can one of you ring me urgently?
00:46 So one of them rang me and I said to them,
00:47 look, can you log into the lottery back in England
00:51 and into my lottery account?
00:52 So I gave her the details and she logged in
00:56 and she just went, oh my God, oh my God.
00:59 And at that point we sort of,
01:02 we weren't really believing it, but you know, whatever.
01:05 So I tried another couple of times to ring this number
01:07 and we Googled the number to check
01:09 that it was a national lottery number,
01:11 that we were ringing a genuine number.
01:12 - Yeah.
01:14 - Couple more times, still wasn't working.
01:15 So I said to Debs, come on, we'll go in the hire car,
01:18 we'll drive around until we find somewhere
01:19 with a good signal and we'll just pull up
01:22 and ring them again.
01:23 So, and after asking a few questions
01:27 for security and whatever, she went,
01:30 I've got to go and talk to my manager
01:32 and I'll be back in a few seconds.
01:34 So she came back on and she said,
01:35 I want to say this right,
01:37 you've won 61,708,231 pounds.
01:43 And obviously we were stunned,
01:46 but also very excited at the time.
01:48 It was almost like Del and Rodney
01:50 when they come out of Sotheby's
01:51 and we start cheering and whatever.
01:54 - Punch in the air.
01:55 - Punch in the air, the car's rocking and whatever.
01:57 But even so, in the back of your mind,
01:58 you're still thinking,
01:59 this is all part of some sophisticated scam.
02:03 So I said to her, can you prove to me
02:07 that you're not scamming me?
02:08 And she went, no, I can't really, no.
02:12 - But you had called the official number.
02:13 - I had called the official number,
02:14 but it was just, you know,
02:16 even so you still find it difficult to comprehend.