Britain’s youngest Lotto winner living on benefit

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Thatbbaskin

I think at 16 I'd of wasted it to! She must not of had the right guidance or just didn't listen x
 
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Blue Rose

Blue Rose

I guess money can’t buy you happiness since it clearly got to her. Although it’s hard to have any sympathy for someone who pretty much threw away £1.8 million. If I won that much I’d obviously enjoy it, but also try to be careful and make sure I don’t just blow it all. Maybe she didn’t have any guidance or any advice on how to invest seeing as she was only 16 when she won.
 
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Thelife&times

Thelife&times

She has said many a times in interviews that the lottery age should be raised and she completely owns that she’s seriously messed it up all-that I can relate to her for.
During that time she has had 4 children, 1 with disabilities-I wished she’d been responsible enough to think of her kids and put money aside to give them a comfortable and stable life. She needs to realise that crashing her car while on a coke bender may well get her kids removed from her care.
 
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hanq2021

My grandad won the pools when he was a young lad and he wasted it all! I’m not sure how much he won but I know it was a lot. He went travelling and bet most of it away and then went back home to his mum when it ran out and she kicked him out 🤣
 
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emm

tskiry56 said:
She won the lottery at just 16 now in her 30’s she has no money left!
To be fortunate enough to win that amount of money you should be set for life.
www.thesun.co.uk

Youngest Lotto winner living on benefits after coke crash and blowing £1.8m

BRITAIN’S youngest Lotto winner Callie Rogers was in a car crash while on cocaine — and is now on benefits after blowing £1.8million. The mother of four, 33, fled with her boyfriend after her Hyund…
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apparently a lot of lottery millionaires end up bankrupt, this is why they advise you to take the money in installments rather than all at once. I saw a programme about her after her winning and does not surprise me at all that she burned through it all
 
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Prgirl_cesca

A family friend of mine won £100,000 on the lottery aged 17/18. She already had 2 kids by this point though. She could have bought her council house and set herself and the kids with a home for life but she just wasted it all. She gave some money to family (like 5k) and then asked for it back when she wasted it all! So sad and everyone tried to advise her but she just didn't listen.
 
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emm

Prgirl_cesca said:
A family friend of mine won £100,000 on the lottery aged 17/18. She already had 2 kids by this point though. She could have bought her council house and set herself and the kids with a home for life but she just wasted it all. She gave some money to family (like 5k) and then asked for it back when she wasted it all! So sad and everyone tried to advise her but she just didn't listen.
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this is why I never understand when people go public with their winnings, everyone must come out of the woodwork asking for money I imagine
 
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Notorious PIG

Notorious PIG

Biggest problem for her were probably the leeches. It’s one thing not to know how to handle a big windfall at such a young age, but having relentless beggars and fake greedy friends...even worse. Without those, she could’ve had some hope of not ending up financially crippled.
 
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emm said:
this is why I never understand when people go public with their winnings, everyone must come out of the woodwork asking for money I imagine
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I would keep quite overall, but likely my holiday photos would give it away 😅
 
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Merpedy

Merpedy

Eh, honestly I sort of get the issue? Even without the age stuff being considered, what do you actually do with that amount of money without just putting it away and essentially wasting it? One day or another it's bound to run out, and unless you have a job to support it I don't think it's likely that you'll be able to buy a nice house or car. Do you just continue to live a normal life with that money sitting in a savings account to be used in case of an emergency or if you fancy a holiday? Seems like a waste and is bound to run out anyway

Suppose you could invest it but I imagine most people don't know how that works or how to do it.
 
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Thatbbaskin

I think once you buy a house and car, plus everything that comes with the house (furniture, insurance, bills, so on) then clothes and a couple of holidays, phones and stuff, you really wouldn't have much, now days you can't really buy a nice home for under 700k, I know if I had 1.8m right now it would be gone in the next 5 years 😫😂😂 but then at the same time, I'd own a house that one day I'd sell for a smaller one, I'd also be aware of how long the money would last so I'd come up with some sort of plan, job or start a new business, do courses to learn a new trade. We can only be so careful x
 
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AnderbeauJohnson

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emm said:
this is why I never understand when people go public with their winnings, everyone must come out of the woodwork asking for money I imagine
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I would tell my parents (I'd want to give them enough money to be able to retire comfortably) but I'd keep it a secret from everyone else. A lot of lottery winners talk about how it tears their families apart and some even end up murdered by people wanting their winnings.
 
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The Dowager

The Dowager

Thatbbaskin said:
I think once you buy a house and car, plus everything that comes with the house (furniture, insurance, bills, so on) then clothes and a couple of holidays, phones and stuff, you really wouldn't have much, now days you can't really buy a nice home for under 700k, I know if I had 1.8m right now it would be gone in the next 5 years 😫😂😂 but then at the same time, I'd own a house that one day I'd sell for a smaller one, I'd also be aware of how long the money would last so I'd come up with some sort of plan, job or start a new business, do courses to learn a new trade. We can only be so careful x
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I assume you mean for your area?
 
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emm

AnderbeauJohnson said:
I would tell my parents (I'd want to give them enough money to be able to retire comfortably) but I'd keep it a secret from everyone else. A lot of lottery winners talk about how it tears their families apart and some even end up murdered by people wanting their winnings.
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agree, but I mean when people appear in neswpapers etc
 
Kim Mild

Kim Mild

I hope she enjoyed spending it.

I agree that 1.8 million wouldn't last from being 16 until old age these days, unless you were frugal or had other income
 
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DCICassieStuart

DCICassieStuart

I know a guy who won half a million a few years ago. He was 28 at the time so old enough to be sensible with it. He blew it all on nights out and weekends away and it was gone within 6 months.

I know somebody else who inherited around half a million when a family member died. She was only 22 at the time, but sought professional guidance and advice and ending up buying two houses and renting them out. The rent is building up a lovely little nest egg for her now.
 
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