Bloke uncovers winning £55,000 EuroMillions ticket getting car ready for valet

2023-02-20

A lucky pantomime actor accidentally discovered a winning lottery ticket he bought before Christmas.

Dion Davies, 47, was clearing out the vehicle in preparation to have it professionally cleaned earlier this month when he found the EuroMillions ticket, worth a whopping £55,086.

Davies entered the draw back in December when he was working as a panto dame, but promptly forgot about it and was astounded when he spotted the winning ticket in his sun visor.

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"I needed to clean the car both inside and out because it was in a terrible state after lots of journeys," Davies told WalesOnline.

"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.

"I then took it to the Spar shop in Tregaron and the chap there said I needed to call the number on the back of the final ticket because it was a winner."

Lucky Davies' five matching numbers had all been based on family birthdays.

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He also managed to match one Lucky Star number in the EuroMillions draw which took place on Tuesday, December 20.

He hadn't realised that he'd held the winning figures when his ticket was officially announced as unclaimed by The National Lottery in January.

Davies then went home to tell his wife Ifana the good news before ringing up to make the claim.

"Ifana had a friend round, so she stayed with us while we made the call," he said.

"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."

And in a twist of fate, the actor is currently rehearsing for a play he co-created called The Bet, which follows the story of a man who loses a life-changing fortune by not putting money on Norton’s Coin, a Welsh horse which became an unlikely winner at the 1990 Cheltenham Gold Cup with odds of just 100-1.

The family – Davies, Ifana and their 15-year-old son – are now planning a trip to Italy this year and the dad-son duo hope also to attend to the annual Comic-Con convention in San Diego, US.

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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