Jane Park

What happened

Jane Park was 17, living in a two-bedroom council house in Niddrie, Edinburgh, sharing a room with her sister and earning about GBP 8 an hour as an office assistant, when she won GBP 1 million on EuroMillions in 2013 with the first lottery ticket she had ever bought, a Lucky Dip. She became the youngest EuroMillions winner in the UK. She announced the win on Facebook and went public quickly; the BBC documentary Teenage Millionaire: The Year I Won The Lottery followed her first year and aired in 2014. She has said she spent on cars - a GBP 25,000 BMW, a GBP 17,000 Volkswagen and an GBP 18,000 Range Rover - a three-bedroom house, about four holidays a year and roughly GBP 50,000 of cosmetic procedures. In 2017 she said she was considering suing the operator, Camelot, arguing a prize that size should not have been paid to a 17-year-old, and she has since argued that big wins should carry a government health warning. She has described stalkers, death threats and people hiding in bushes outside her home.

Where they are now

As of 2023 Park told ITV News she wished she had never won, said she 'wouldn't wish it on anyone', and said she had still not spent all of the GBP 1 million (2023).

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