{"id":141672,"date":"2018-06-15T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/euromillions-winner-amanda-lewis-still-works-at-asda\/"},"modified":"2018-06-15T14:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:02:13","slug":"euromillions-winner-amanda-lewis-still-works-at-asda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/euromillions-winner-amanda-lewis-still-works-at-asda\/","title":{"rendered":"Euromillions winner Amanda Lewis still works at Asda"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amanda Lewis\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/C2D1\/production\/_102037894_amandalewisasdagoldhands01.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  The National Lottery<figcaption>Image caption                                      Supermarket worker Amanda Lewis won \u00a31m from a Lucky Dip ticket two years ago                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A lottery winner who scooped \u00a31m is still working at the supermarket where she bought the ticket two years on. <\/p>\n<p>Amanda Lewis, from Stafford, described her Euromillions win as &quot;life-changing&quot; - but she still works part-time at Asda on Molineux Way in Wolverhampton.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old used a \u00a32 win from a previous lottery draw to purchase the winning numbers in June 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Despite being able to buy new homes for her family, she said she would not give up her job of 16 years.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &quot;I think I would get bored if I didn&#039;t work.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;People have said I should set up my own business, but, to be honest, I have been there so long I don&#039;t have a clue what I would do if I didn&#039;t work there.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Midlands Live: Seven led to safety after arson attack; Inquest into boy&#039;s house fire death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On 14 June 2016, she had been working later than usual and decided to buy a lucky dip for that night&#039;s draw. <\/p>\n<p>She said: &quot;Even now, I do sit there and think how incredible it is. You never think it will happen to you.&quot; <\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  The National Lottery<figcaption>Image caption                                      Asda colleague Vilma Abdulla sold Amanda the ticket, while Susan Hill checked the ticket and told Amanda she had to call Camelot                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With the money, she bought a new car, a new home with land for daughter Charlotte&#039;s horses, helped her with a home deposit and gave son Ryan some money for savings.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &quot;It is nice to be able to help them, but you still want them to understand the value of money.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When you have lived with bills to pay, when you come into some money you don&#039;t want to waste it.&quot; <\/p>\n<h2>You may also like:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#039;Mad fan&#039; shows support with giant flag<\/li>\n<li>Ancient writing found on 7th Century slate<\/li>\n<li>Town airs laundry in support of mum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mrs Lewis said shoppers regularly asked her to pass on some of her good fortune.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Certain customers say they want to buy their lottery tickets off me because I am the lucky lady, or ask me to kiss their tickets,&quot; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright The National LotteryImage caption Supermarket worker Amanda Lewis won \u00a31m from a Lucky Dip ticket two years ago A lottery winner who scooped \u00a31m is still working at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}