Jane Park: Euromillions winner wishes she'd 'never won' - and all Sheffield winners revealed
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But in an interview with US talk show host Dr Phil, broadcast last night, 27-year-old Jane admitted she wishes she hadn’t won the lottery, as she discussed the downside of winning the enormous amount when she was just a teenager. In a special episode called 'The Curse of the Lottery', Dr Phil asked her about the abuse she received, saying: “You had stalkers, death threats...” She replied: “I wish I'd never won it, I wouldn't wish it on anyone.”
When she won, Jane had been living in a two-bed council house in Edinburgh and earned £8 per hour working in an office doing admin for a charity organisation. In 2014, she appeared in BBC documentary Teenage Millionaire: The Year I Won The Lottery. The show chartered the changes in her life over the next year – from announcing her win on Facebook to appearing on daytime television. More recently, she has set up an OnlyFans account where she shares photographs to paying fans.
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Historically, Sheffield has been one of the luckiest cities in Britain for bagging the jackpot, with at least 70 new millionaires stepping forward since 1994. The best-known winners are the astoundingly generous Ray and Barbara Wragg, who won £7.6million in 2000 and gave away more than £5m of it to friends, family and charities.
Ray recounted what it was like to break the news to his boss the day after his win in 2000, saying: “When I told him I'd had a win, he said: 'That reminds me, I need to check my ticket.' I said 'don't bother Dave - I won the lot'.” The couple went on a cruise after the win, which Mr Wragg said they “loved”. Barbara sadly passed away in 2018 aged 77.
Hairdresser Deana Sampson had just £3.60 in her bank accounts when she matched her numbers in 1996 to win a massive £5.4m. Her first purchase was a new pair of trainers, but soon swapped her city council home for a luxury conversion in Baslow.