宝くじ jackpot club gets 2,500th member

By TAMARA COHEN FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Updated: 10:27 BST, 18 October 2010

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No wonder this group surrounding Myleene Klass are smiling ... they all became multi-millionaires after their 宝くじ numbers （機の）カム up.

That winning feeling: Myleene Klass joins members of the 宝くじ millionaires' club (see below)

They were の中で the biggest of the 勝利者s from the past 16 years who （機の）カム together yesterday to celebrate the 2,500th member of their club.

More than 150 joined the party whose winnings 範囲d from £1m to a staggering £56m.

They welcomed 77-year-old former dinner lady Annette Brown - who scooped £1,151,496 last Wednesday - to a シャンペン酒 歓迎会 at Kensington Palace.

The grandmother of seven, from Bo'ness in West Lothian, who until last week lived on her £114-a-week 年金, 設立する out she had won when she popped into her newsagent to check the numbers on Thursday morning.

'I knew from the shop assistant's 直面する I had won something and she just said "look at this". I was in so much shock, the assistant had to 運動 me home and even had to tell my daughter what happened. It was like a dream.'

A 未亡人 for 20 years since she lost her husband David to 癌 in 1990, Mrs Brown celebrated with her four children and said she will think carefully before spending anything.

'I think my husband is looking 負かす／撃墜する at me now and smiling,' she said. 'It still hasn't sunk in. I won't go mad and I definitely won't be moving. I've lived in my house for 38 years and I love the area.

'I'd like to go on holiday to Canada with the children to see my husband's family there, and we might even 飛行機で行く first class'. The 国家の 宝くじ has created 13 millionaires each month since it 開始する，打ち上げるd in 1994 and their total wealth is now £7bn.

勝利者s at the party 含むd 77-year-old former taxi driver George Sturt, from Dorking, Surrey, whose family 企業連合（する） won £26.1m in January. He 株 the EuroMillions prize with his children Gary, Colin and Teresa. Mr Sturt, whose wife Maureen had died from 癌 six months earlier, has been travelling the world and giving money to 地元の charities. He said: 'I still play the 宝くじ now, it's a tradition. I won £40 this week.'

Was the £113m EuroMillions winning ticket bought from this shop?

Nigel Page, 44, and his wife Justine Laycock, 42, became Britain's biggest 宝くじ 勝利者s up to then in February, scooping £56m on EuroMillions. The couple, from Cirencester in Gloucestershire, moved into a £4m-mansion and gave their £400,000 home to their cleaner.

行方不明になる Laycock said yesterday: 'We 港／避難所't bought very much really, apart from a house and our cars, and a cocker spaniel. It's been 広大な／多数の／重要な to give so much away to our friends and family.'

Two lucky 勝利者s from the Magnificent Seven, the Merseyside 企業連合（する） of BT 労働者s who scooped £45.5m - or £6.5m each - on Euromillions last November, also joined the party.

All seven やめる their 職業s, and Emma Cartwright, 24, has spent the last six months travelling, while Donna Rhodes, 40, has been renovating a seven-bedroom house where she will move her family.

Marion Richardson, a 離婚d mother of five from Tyneside, was Britain's first EuroMillions 勝利者, scooping £16.7m in 2004.

支援する 列／漕ぐ／騒動, from left - Gary Sturt, Emma Cartwright, Donna Rhodes, Justine Laycock and Nigel Page. 前線, from left - Teresa Sturt, George Sturt, Myleene Klass, Marion Richardson