STARGAZER Mystic Meg is NOT leaving the National Lottery Live show - the Lancashire Evening Telegraph can reveal.

A daily tabloid today predicted that the fortune-teller, from Accrington, was facing the axe from the BBC show because she "had reached the end of her shelf life."

But we can reveal that 54-year-old Meg, real name Margaret Lake, has just renewed her contract.

A BBC spokeswoman said: "She has renewed her contract and the story is totally untrue."

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