A man who won over €125 million in the EuroMillions has admitted that his new life of luxury "bores him".
Neil Trotter, from south London, scooped a mega prize of £107.9m (€125.6m) in 2014.
And eerily, he had previously predicted he would become a lottery winner - even going as far as telling his friends and family he would one day win big.
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Neil, who worked as a mechanic before becoming a millionaire, was warned by the Camelot group, which runs the lottery, to not do anything with his winnings straight away.
But he did end up splashing the cash on a mansion, complete with its own lake set in 400 acres of land, Mirror UK reports.
As a race-car fan, he also traded in his Ford Focus for a Jaguar and a Porsche.
But since his big win, he quit his job, and says that he's found his new life of luxury and leisure “quite boring”.
He said: "Going from having to work to not having to work any more was quite a strange thing to adjust to. I soon found out that sitting at home watching telly all day was quite boring.”
He always had an inkling that he would become a lottery winner.
Speaking back in 2019 he said: “Being a Trotter, I knew I’d be a millionaire one day – and I somehow knew I’d win the Lottery. I used to tell my dad I’d have a house with a lake, and he’d say, ‘In your dreams, son!’
"Winning allowed me to go back to my first love – racing. And I‘ve the house with a lake.”
Neil even had an eerie premonition about his fortunes, which led him to tell staff at his dad’s office on the day of his win that “this time tomorrow" he’d be a millionaire.
It was only a few hours later that his EuroMillions Lucky Dip ticked banked him £107,932,603.20 (€125,594169.30), making him the fourth biggest lottery winner in the UK at that time.
Since the EuroMillions game launched in Ireland in 2004, there have been 17 Irish EuroMillions jackpot winners.
In February of this year, a player in the Mid-West took the title of 17th EuroMillions jackpot winner ever seen in Ireland after scooping the €30.9 million jackpot after purchasing their winning ticket at Larkin’s Gala service station in Ballina on the border of Tipperary, Limerick and Clare.
Here is the roll call of the 17 lucky Irish EuroMillions jackpot winners to date:
1. July 2005: Dolores McNamara from Limerick, was Ireland’s first and biggest EuroMillions winner scooping over €115 million.
2. July 2008: A lucky player from Co. Tipperary won a €15 million jackpot with a ticket bought in Carrick-on-Suir in Co. Tipperary.
3. June 2009: A family syndicate shared the jackpot with a British winner, taking home over €29.4 million with a ticket they purchased in Dublin.
4. June 2013: A winning ticket sold in Beaumount, Dublin, shared a EuroMillions jackpot worth over €187 million. A Dublin player earned half of the jackpot and picked up over €93 million.
5. September 2013: A young man from the South East shared a jackpot of over €25 million with a player in Spain, taking home over €12.8 million.
6. April 2014: A jackpot prize worth €15 million was claimed on a ticket sold in Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
7. September 2014: An €86.7 million jackpot was won by a syndicate from Dublin. The ticket was sold in Centra, Ballybrack, Co. Dublin.
8. January 2016: A syndicate of friends won over €66 million, splitting the jackpot of €132,376,632. The ticket was sold in Eason’s store, Fairgreen Shopping Centre, Carlow.
9. July 2016: 22 colleagues from Dublin Bus won the €23.8 million. The ticket was sold in O’Hanlon’s Portarlington.
10. January 2017: A Dublin work syndicate claimed the €88.5 million EuroMillions jackpot. The winning ticket was sold at the Applegreen Service Station on the M1 Northbound in Lusk, Co. Dublin.
11. July 2017: A syndicate from the West of Ireland won a €29 million EuroMillions jackpot. The ticket was sold in Garryduff XL Store on Pound Road, Castlebar in Co. Mayo.
12. December 2017: A small family syndicate from Dublin won €38.9 million on a ticket purchased in The Village Shop in Malahide Shopping Centre
13. June 2018: 32 colleagues from Stakelums Hardware store in Thurles Co. Tipperary share a €17 million EuroMillions jackpot with a ticket they purchased at Eason’s Store in Thurles Shopping Centre in Co. Tipperary.
14. February 2019: The Naul Family Syndicate won €175.4 million on a ticket sold in Reilly’s Daybreak in Naul, Co. Dublin.
15. February 2020: A Co. Mayo family shared the €17 million jackpot with a ticket they purchased at Mulroy’s Londis Store in Castlebar.
16. July 2020: An online player in Dublin won a €49.5 million jackpot which they won with a €2.50 normal play ticket.
17. February 2022: Mid-West ticket holder scoops €30.9 million jackpot with Quick Pick ticket they purchased at Larkin’s Gala Service Station in Ballina, Co. Tipperary.
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