An NHS worker from Redcar has spoken about finding out he was a millionaire on New Year's Eve, just before midnight, after he put his tickets under a shamrock stone for good luck.
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00:00The day before New Year's Eve I was going into the shop, but I had a funny feeling that I'd seen on the on the news
00:05That you were going to make ten UK million
00:07And I just had a churning in my stomach to go and buy two tickets
00:10Do a bit of shopping went home told my partner that I bought two tickets choose one
00:15She said no, I just put them together and we just put them under our lucky stone
00:18It's a little stone that we have
00:19The shamrock on it put them there forgot all about them until about 10 to 12 midnight on New Year's Eve
00:25Decided to check them on the off chance my stepdaughter scan the ticket and it popped up a million pound
00:31after we checked the ticket and confirmed it and
00:34Treble checked it and everything else
00:36I was just sat in the corner with a drink and just had that funny moment of going. Yes, we're millionaires
00:41There's going to be exciting times new adventures for all of us
00:45Especially moving house property of our own and for the daughter as well getting on the property ladder with a boyfriend
00:51It's just exciting times for all of us of 25, but we don't know where it's going to take us with our journeys
00:56But I know we're going to have a damn good time enjoying it plan to get married in May
01:01So it'll be all celebrations from from then on back at work on Monday
01:05Doing my job that I love the NHS
01:08Carry on from there. Just you just don't believe it's going to happen to you and it does it does happen to average Joe