National Lottery winners celebrate games fifteenth year
November 17, 2009
A crowd of lottery millionaires gathered together at the weekend to raise a glass to the game that changed their lives. The National Lottery is now celebrating its fifteenth year. The gathering of over 100 lottery winners was at LSO St. Luke’s on Old Street in London which was funded by lottery money. The combined wealth of everybody who was present to celebrate the games birthday was said to have been in the region of £400 million.
Since it was set up in 1994 the National Lottery has paid out a staggering £36 billion and has created more than 2,300 millionaires.
One of the winners present at LSO St. Luke’s was Mark Gardiner who scooped £22.5 million with his business partner, Paul Maddison. Still Britain’s biggest winners of the game Gardiner points out that anyone who wins the lottery should be prepared for their life to change in a big way. He continued that anyone who claimed that life didn’t change after the lottery was a liar. He said that those changes were not always for the good and pointed out that his win had caused family arguments and left him with a couple of failed marriages under his belt.
Other winners were Derek and Dawn Ladner who won £958,000. They say that although the amount was not large enough to completely turn their world on its head it was enough to mean that the pair could retire from work and not have to worry about money ever again.
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