A dad-of-one found a winning lottery ticket while simply cleaning his car.
Panto actor Dion Davies bought himself a lottery ticket and then forgot all about it until he decided to take his car to the car wash. It wasn't until he was asked to take everything out by the valeter that he spotted a ticket he had bought earlier but had forgot all about it.
The 47-year-old took it to his local Spar shop where he was told he needed to call the number on the back of the ticket as it was a winner. Dion had managed to match all five numbers - all based on family birthdays - plus one Lucky Star.
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As reported by Wales Online, the EuroMillions draw had taken place on Tuesday, December 20 and the winning ticket had been officially announced as unclaimed by The National Lottery in January.
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He said: "I needed to clean the car both inside and out because it was in a terrible state after lots of journeys," he said.
"So I took it to get valeted, at which point the guy asked me to take all of my belongings out before he started - just in case he threw away something that was valuable. And I'm so glad he did because I found a multi lottery ticket in my sun visor that I had bought in December from Tesco in Milford Haven where I was performing in the panto."
Dion went home to Ceredigion in Wales and shared the news with wife Ifana before the pair called The National Lottery to make the claim.
"Ifana had a friend round, so she stayed with us while we made the call," said Dion.
"When the person at the Lottery said it was a winner, we all went - along with a neighbour - to get some lunch together, which of course included some glasses of fizz."
Dion has also appeared in BBC’s Torchwood and Ruth Jones' Stella. Ironically the actor is currently rehearsing for a play he co-created called The Bet, about a man who loses a potential life-changing fortune by failing to put money on Norton’s Coin, the Welsh horse which proved an unlikely winner at the 1990 Cheltenham Gold Cup with odds of 100-1.
The Lottery winner, his wife Ifana and their 15-year-old son now plan to take a trip to Italy this year. After that Dion also hopes to take his son to the annual international Comic-Con convention in San Diego, USA.
A spokesperson for Camelot UK Lotteries Limited said: "Thanks to National Lottery players, £30m is generated each week for National Lottery-funded projects. This money helps support everything from the local charity making a difference where you live through to helping our nations' athletes win medals at last summer’s Commonwealth Games.
"To date, £47bn has been raised for National Lottery Good Causes, with more than 670,000 individual grants awarded. Players can buy and check their tickets online by downloading the National Lottery app or at national-lottery.co.uk."
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