A couple who won a staggering £61m on the EuroMillions lottery have revealed just some of the items they bought following the win.
Richard and Debbie Nuttall, both 54, from Colne scooped a £61,708,231 share of the £123million jackpot prize from the draw on January 30 – with the other winning ticket having been bought in Spain.
The National Lottery presented the winners of the jackpot today at a press event at Mitton Hall Hotel in the Ribble Valley.
One of the first questions on everyone’s lips was: ‘Have you bought anything?’
Their first purchases since the win have been new clubs for keen golfer Richard, a £300 hairdryer and 1,200 thread-count cotton luxury bedding.
Richard has also brought a brand-new BMW X5, which was selected for its extra-large boot, big enough to transport his golf clubs.
Speaking today Richard said: “I am big into golf so I bought a set of golf clubs.
“Then we bought cotton bedsheets.”
Richard said they had been thinking of downsizing their home and had looked at a bungalow.
He also revealed it was ‘good to get the story out there’ when asked about being the centre of the attention.
He said: “We thought about staying private and the news was going to leak anyway and it would have been a completely different story."
He also added that “friends and family will be taken care of.”
Debbie has handed her notice in at her civil engineering job and self-employed accountant Richard said he would carry on working until the end of the tax year.
“I have told some of my clients I will work till the end of the tax year. There are a lot of payrolls. In fact I was doing some this week.
“People have got to get paid. It does not matter what your situation is. So I said I will work till the end of March.”
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The couple who have three daughters and two granddaughters were enjoying a week-long holiday in Fuerteventura, celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary, when they discovered the news.
They could not claim the prize until they were back in the UK, so booked a flight home for the next day.
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