Whatever Happened to Jane Park, The UK's Youngest Lottery Winner - And What Is She Is Doing Now?
/Jane Park became the youngest Euromillions winner at 17. Photo: Daily Record
At just 17, she was one of Scotland's youngest Euromillions lottery winners, claiming £1 million (US$1.4 million) in 2013.
But what has happened since? It started as we reported in this story, Jane Park was having trouble filling in her day. She said she would look for a job or try and enter university.
After scooping her lottery windfall, Jane worked night-shift in a taxi office to pass the time.
Then she started working in a fish and chip shop, but found the job more stressful than she imagined.
Jane at work in the fish and chip shop. Photo: Mirror
On her first day she tweeted: "Working in a chippy isn’t as easy as it looks."
It's a far cry from the winner of two years earlier who was photographed with her chihuahua and Louis Vuitton bags, and wanted to buy a white Range Rover.
She told the Daily Record that she was getting some playful feedback from her 2,600 Twitter followers asking her for orders as a joke.
She later posted: "Aw right didn’t realise cause I won the lottery and have money I’m no allowed to work in a chippy."
She enjoyed better luck recently when the she revealed another big cash win. The Hibs fan bet £5000 on her team to beat Rangers in their Championship clash at Ibrox.
When the Easter Road outfit recorded a 2-0 win, she pocketed £12,500 from the bookies.
At the time she said: “It will pay for more shopping — and a few nice holidays.”
Jane Park with her lottery check. Photo: Daily Record
Jane - who bought a three-bedroom house and enjoyed holidays with the big-money prize - has also splurged on other extravagances. She revealed she had a breast enhancement, boosting her assets to 36FF.
In 2014 she starred in BBC documentary 'Teenage Millionaire: The Year I Won the Lottery.' A TV crew followed her for 12 months.
A preview for the documentary featuring Jane and her win.
The documentary showed her trying to build a better relationship with her mother Linda by taking her on holiday to Benidorm.
"Even though I’ve won this money, I’ve still got the same feelings and emotions as everyone else," Jane said.
"There’s a quote that I saw and it’s quite good. It said ‘Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy you a jetski and have you ever seen someone being sad on a jetski?”
Jane Park is interviewed on UK tv about her win experience.
But the Sun reports she is now back in a small flat with her mum after moaning that living alone was “hard work, stressful” because she “couldn’t even make a bed”.
Besides partying with her friends three times a week, she enjoys five-star holidays in the Maldives and the US.