Cheer up, you won the lottery
TV host tells Scot to stop moaning about £1m win
TV HOST Eamonn Holmes has told Lotto winner Jane Park to stop moaning about how her £1million win made her miserable.
Jane, from Edinburgh, was 17 when she got lucky with her first ever ticket in 2013.
Now 21, she has regularly claimed winning the Euromillions prize ruined her life.
She even threatened to sue lottery operators Camelot for negligence, claiming someone her age shouldn’t have been allowed to win.
Appearing on ITV’s This Morning yesterday, she said winning the money had been a “twisted fairytale”.
But host Eamonn accused her of being “hard to please” and told her to stop complaining her life was “rubbish”.
He told Jane: “I think you are overthinking it. You are 17, you have got £1million that you never had before – what’s the worst that can happen? You spend it all and you are back where you started.
“Are you just a bit hard to please? No matter what it is. You got £1million for nothing, you got a bum lift for nothing, you got all these cars, but four years on why is life so rubbish? Why can’t you just say this has been an amazing rollercoaster ride?”
During the interview, Jane denied co-host Ruth Langsford’s suggestion she had blown all her money and claimed to live “comfortably”.
She said: “Looking back, it has been a bit of a twisted fairytale.
“To start with, you are out buying things and it is nice… but then when you’ve got to sit back. It is only £1million – you have got to invest it.
“You have go to be wise with it and take a step back and say, ‘Where do I want to be in the future?’ And at 17 that is a lot to think about.
“Everyone wants me to blow it but I am trying to be sensible and not be this stereotypical type. I have got property investments. It’s nearly five years on and I still just live comfortably. I don’t work.”
Jane told how her £5000 bum lift operation in Turkey left her in hospital with blood poisoning.
Asked if she got the effect she wanted, she said: “It’s a bit better but it’s not massively great.”
Viewers vented their anger on Twitter after watching Jane’s appearance.
Adele Williams said: “Jane Park is so annoying. How can she say the lottery ruined her life when she’s always eating takeaway or in Ibiza?
Keiren Cullen said: “Don’t think Jane Park has any right to complain about her situation, just enjoy it while it lasts!”
Why can’t you just say this has been an amazing rollercoaster ride? EAMONN