What type of lottery winner would you be?

Lottery winners are defined by their initial reaction to discovering that they have won a lottery jackpot.

They either seek publicity or shun publicity. Often, the decision isn’t a conscious one. If you happen to be in a public place when you discover that you’ve won, your instinctive reaction may such that before you know it everyone around you knows you’ve won and you haven’t even considered whether you’d like publicity or not. That in itself may not lead to the type of publicity you could get if you agreed with The National Lottery operators Camelot that you wanted to ‘go public’, but a call to a local newspaper by a witness to your reaction could spark off quite a media scrum.

Those who actively seek out privacy will sometimes not even tell their closest friends or family. Fear of becoming known only as ‘that person who won the lottery’ is often the reason for this type of reaction.

On the other hand, some people yearn for the publicity, although if they still feel that way after their lives have been turned upside down and their actions scrutinised by everyone is unsure.

In 1995 Mark Gardiner from Hastings won a half share of £22.m million in the National Lottery. His story isn’t untypical and would make anyone think twice about going public. How Winning The Lottery Ruined My Life

Back in 2003, Callie Rogers scooped a £1.9m Lotto jackpot aged just 16. Read how she ended up penniless just six years later. Lottery Winner At 16

Some lottery winners stories take a bit of believing, particularly the two told in this article where neither winner actually got to collect their prizes. Lottery Winners Stories