GILLIAN BAYFORD’S EX ON HOW My carvery date with £148m Lotto winner...andI paid the bill
A MAN who romanced £148million Lotto winner Gillian Bayford told yesterday how they had their first date at a carvery – and HE paid the bill.
Jobless Gavin Innes, 45, and 46-yearold Gillian each had a pot of tea as they chatted, laughed and compared pictures of their respective kids.
He picked up the £3.78 tab and insists he had no idea she was super rich... even though she had picked him up at his two-bed council house in a flashy sports car.
Gavin claims Gillian even pretended to be an office worker and only revealed her wealth on a second date weeks later, again over a cuppa.
His revelations come in the wake of Gillian branding him a “gold digger” after they split. She said at the time: “You have to meet a few weasels before you can meet someone nice — a prince or whatever. With Gavin it was just financial. He pulled the wool over my eyes from the very beginning.”
Gavin says he and Gillian met up after flirty chat on Facebook.
He says talk of marriage surfaced just nine weeks into their six-month romance. But despite some good times, it all ended in tears.
Gavin claims Gillian is lonely and that her Euromillions jackpot win has not bought her happiness.
He says she was happier spending time scoffing cake at his humble home rather than going back to her mansion.
REUNION
Gavin also claims mum-of-two Gillian – who wed ex-prisoner Brian Deans, 37, last month – is just desperate to be loved.
He says: “She was so lonely. You never meet a happy millionaire.
“She brought up marriage after about nine weeks and asked how I’d propose to her. I said I wanted to live together first.”
The unlikely couple were thrown together after signing up to a social media reunion group for people who attended Harris Academy in Dundee.
Incredibly, Gavin says he did not realise she was the local lass who scooped the £148million Lotto jackpot with her first husband Adrian.
Gillian’s face has been plastered over the papers and on TV ever since the Euromillions win in 2012.
But as their relationship developed father-of-two Gavin says he witnessed Gillian splashing the cash.
He goes on: “She was throwing money at everybody. But she preferred to stay at my house. There were a few times I saw the real Gillian.
“Once we got up at 3am and sat eating chocolate cake, before going for a drive along the coast in our pyjamas.
“More of that would have been cool, just taking off. I could have fallen in love with that Gillian.
“Another time, we sat under a railway bridge taking pictures of fire spinners, people twirling balls of fire.
“She couldn’t believe how much fun she had, yet no one knew who she was. That was the best date we had.”
Gavin recalls their first date, too, at the Kingsway Farm carvery just off the A90 in Dundee.
And he addresses sceptics who wonder how he never knew about Gillian’s Lotto luck.
He says: “I don’t have a telly so I don’t watch the news. I didn’t recognise Gillian when we first met and I don’t remember her from being at school as she was in the year above.
“She said she worked in an office and moaned about how her boss was a pain in the a**e.
“But she came to pick me up for our first date in a sports car – it was strange to see a car like that coming up my street, which is kind of rough.
“I thought whatever she did, she must be good at it.
“I was just happy to be in a car like that.
“But even after she told me, I still paid for things. I’m old fashioned, I guess. She wasn’t my usual type, physically, but I was attracted to her because she was charismatic and funny.
“We didn’t talk about money. We mainly talked about our kids. We had a cup of tea, which I paid for.”
CHEQUE
Gavin says he and Gillian had begun a private conversation on Facebook after she expressed interest in a charity he wanted to launch to aid male victims of domestic abuse. She used her real name but Gavin insists he still didn’t click that she was a lottery winner.
He says: “I was lonely, too. I just wanted some female company.”
Gavin tells how Gillian revealed her fortune over another cuppa three weeks after the first date. He says she whipped out her mobile phone to show him the famous shot of her and Adrian, 47, holding champagne flutes and their whopping £148million cheque. Gavin says he thought the picture was a fake – because he had mocked up a photo where was holding a winner’s cheque. He recalls: “She told me she had something to tell me and showed me the picture of her and Adrian. I asked if she’d Photoshopped it. “I’d Photoshopped a similar one of me ‘winning’ the lottery. “She kind of looked offended and said, ‘No, I won it’. “My first question was: ‘How do you trust
I didn’t know of her Lotto win ... I thought it was odd when she turned up in sports car GAVIN INNES ON ‘NOT RECOGNISING’ EUROMILLION GILLIAN