Britain’s youngest EuroMillions winner’s family stopped her spending

Britain’s youngest EuroMillions winner Jane Park who scooped £1million jackpot at 17 says she would have blown the lot if her family had not stepped in

  • Jane Park won £1million but she has complained the jackpot ruined her life 
  • The EuroMillions winner has now revealed her family had to step in and stop her blowing her new fortune as she splashed out on plastic surgery and handbags 
  • Miss Park, 22, has threatened to sue Camelot for negligence after her big win 

EuroMillions winner Jane Park has revealed her family had to step in to stop her blowing her £1 million fortune as she splashed out on cosmetic surgery and designer handbags.

The 22-year-old from Edinburgh, has regularly complained winning the Euromillions prize ruined her life and even threatened to sue lottery operators Camelot for negligence.

The jackpot winner paid for a boob job and a Brazilian bum lift and has splashed out on a string of luxury holidays and fashion accessories.

However, the young woman from Scotland could have gone broke if her family had not stepped in to stop her, she said. 

She insisted that she is still in a ‘comfortable’ financial position but refused to reveal how much money she had left – years after winning on her first-ever ticket in 2013.

Then: The 17-year-old took home £1million from EuroMillions after getting lucky on her first ticket

Now: The 22-year-old who has undergone plastic surgery is dating Dundee FC footballer Jordan Piggott, formerly of West Brom FC

Surgery and shopping was top of Miss Park’s list when she won cash as a teenager. Luckily, her family stopped her from spending it all 

Miss Park has her breasts enhanced and also had a ‘bum lift’. The million pound winner said she believes the competition should not be open to under eighteens

She said: ‘It is very easy to spend the money and once you become aware that it is yours and how much you have got it becomes even easier.

‘You think ‘Oh well I’ve got the money so I can spend it’. It just becomes easier to buy more stuff that you don’t necessarily need.

‘I have had a couple of cosmetic surgeries. I went shopping and bought handbags and shoes and stuff like that.

‘My family said to me ‘You have spent a bit of it now, you need to think about investing it’. So then I got some property and put some away in the bank.

‘At some point I had to take their advice or it could have went a completely different way.

‘It was very overwhelming. I thought I was this massive celebrity. I thought I was Simon Cowell famous with my £1 million when I wasn’t.

Miss Park has also claimed she sometimes wishes she had never won the huge prize, but said she wouldn’t give the money away

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‘I just didn’t realise how much it actually was and what it could buy and what the difficulties could be with it.

‘I have always had the same friends and my family were really good. There was a few people who came out of the woodwork but I have always been very wary of them.

‘It’s good that I was quite a mature 17-year-old, I couldn’t think of what it would be like if I was very immature.’

Asked in an interview on BBC Radio Scotland how much money she had left, she said: ‘This is a question everybody asks me. I would never get into figures or such on TV or radio but I’m comfortable just now and I’m sure that if that ever changed people who read articles about me would be the first to know.

‘I have bought a few houses, I have done a bit with it and I’m still comfortable living just now so it’s as good as good can get at 22.’

Miss Park, who is currently dating teenage football ‘starlet’ Jordan Piggott, says she almost spent all her money but friends and family stopped her

Jane also repeated her call for the age limit for buying lottery tickets to be raised to 18.

She added: ‘I have been trying to get that out there for 18 months and it’s good that people are starting to listen.

‘It’s not just the people that have blootered it. There is people out there who have still got money that are saying the same things.’

When she won in 2013, Jane, then 17, toasted her win with Irn-Bru as she was too young to drink. She was working in a temporary admin job and living with her mum Linda in a two-bedroom flat in a council estate in Niddrie, Edinburgh.

Camelot, which runs EuroMillions in the UK, appointed an adviser to help her manage her wealth but Jane said it was only family advice that stopped her wasting all her cash.

Earlier this week, Britain’s youngest lottery winner Callie Rogers, who scooped £1.87 million in 2003 when she was just 16, revealed she had blown her fortune.

She blew the money on drugs – including a £250,000 cocaine bill – as well as breast enlargements and £300,000 of designer clothes.

Miss Rogers, now 31, said she is ‘so much happier’ since she lost the cash – and also called for the age limit for buying lottery tickets to be increased.

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