The popular tv series Friends covered many topics over the course of its 10-year season. In this 2003 episode clip from 'The One With The Lottery,' everyone except Ross pools together to buy tickets for the lottery, and Phoebe gets a prediction from her psychic that they will win. As usual it's a classic and shows what can go on when lotto fever strikes.
The video is blurry and poor quality, but it's a rarity. That's because it is one of the few films that show a psychic, Carol of Bridgetown, who has beaten the odds and won a $1.83 Million Saturday Lotto jackpot by dreaming about it. The West Australian woman has been secretly helping families with her win proceeds, and she says it's one of the big advantages of her win.
Advice... the easiest thing to give and hardest to take. Maybe if more lottery winners had listened to Financial Life Coach Gary Flater they would be able to keep their money for longer and have fewer problems. Gary talks about the 7 biggest mistakes lottery winners make. Take the time to listen - you never know where your next ticket will take you and you may need him.
What does it feel like to win the lottery? For Graham Nield, from Yorkshire, who won £6.6 million, it was emotional: “I didn’t really remember the call, a lot of my memories are a blur from when we won. I just wanted someone to say it was real and confirm it. I kept welling up, I don’t cry often but it was such an emotional moment.” I think so too.
A blurry CCTV video shows a man buying his lottery tickets at a Los Angeles supermarket. Astoundingly, the surveillance video proves the very moment that he bought the winning Powerball ticket - but he wasn't able to collect his win. Why? He couldn’t find the ticket, and only had one day to claim his prize! Though store cameras clearly show that it was him who bought the winning ticket, lottery officials refused to pay up unless he physically produced it. Rules are rules. It's a tough world, and I bet the guy will remember where to put his next ticket purchase from now on.
I love the creativity of some of our lottery commercials, but this one beats them all. It started out as a typical opening with loud music and larrikin behaviour - until I saw the group sitting in the back seat of the pickup. Then it all made sense. Be surprised too...
Gloria Aguda was on the verge of losing her home to foreclosure and couldn’t afford a trip to the doctor. Depressed, the 50-year-old Fountain resident prayed for help. Those prayers were answered when she matched all six numbers in a 2007 Colorado Lottery drawing for the $9 million jackpot. After seeing that story, YouTuber BoldRadish decided to offer some prayerful help for those who really need a cash boost. See it here.
It's hard to keep up with the lottery jackpots as they hit the stratosphere, going ever higher each year. The $1.5 Billion Powerball in January 2016 was a landmark, and here we have a list of the top 10 winners from around the world to keep the numbers climbing. Some of the top figures will turn you green with envy.
At the Minnesota lottery headquarters press conference, Powerball winner Paul White addressed questions from the public in the presentation room. But one answer he started off with made me think he will have a new career. "This is my boss," said the $149 Million lottery winner pointing at the smiling man at the table. "At the end of the day he's going to be my chauffeur." The rest of the video is pure fun to watch.
When I watched this video about what happens when you win the lottery, it started out with some figures and statistics... not that interesting. But my jaw dropped about half-way through and stayed there. Have you any idea how much of those multi-million jackpot prize amounts you actually take home? No wonder America is such a rich country - it's all paid for by lottery taxes!
Animals and scratch-offs - they just seem to go together. So when the producers of these commercials first saw the hamster stars, they knew it could become a popular series. Which it did, and tv viewers voted by buying the State Lottery's scratch-off tickets in droves.
Well-known British magician Derren Brown famously predicted the correct lottery numbers in the 2013 UK National Lottery draw, a magic trick which has had everyone puzzled ever since. In this clip he disclosed that he spent more than a year to plan the illusion, and also tells whether he took a ticket.
You know this video is going to be a spoof as soon as the lottery 'official' appears on camera. Featuring Lexi, DW Bass, Jezar Riches, Ashley Kay, T-Rich & David Pesce and Lil' Malachi. "I'm a gonna hire someone a exercise for me." It's a hoot!
One of the words of advice in this list of 10 important must-do's is to write your name on the ticket first, and place it into a plastic ziplock bag and hide it from prying eyes. Then get your affairs in order because a storm is approaching unless you're properly prepared. Not only is #4 important, but many of the other tips will help you through this difficult time of too much money and too many friends.
Cynthia Stafford won $112 Million in the Mega Millions lottery in 2007, and has since become an inspiration to others ever since. The former software account executive has been donating to charity organizations, started a film company and even opened her own entertainment business. In this interview from The Balancing Act - an American morning tv show - she tells how her life has changed since the win. She still plays the lottery weekly, proving that a good thing is never enough.
We meet Adam Osmond, a former gambling addict who spent over 10 years and $1 million trying to win the lottery. He studied for a business degree and bought two convenience stores in Connecticut. Between 2002 and 2008 he started spending thousands of dollars on the lottery, using random numbers from odd sources like a bus sign. Adam's story became even more interesting when he was convicted of printing lottery tickets, but then his life took a strange twist. What happened to his conviction? Did he win back his lost money? Watch this fascinating story unfold.
The usual topics about losing - that all lottery players and watchers have come to expect - are in this top 5 lottery facts list. But don't let that stop you watching this video filled with funny clips from famous film comedies. Enjoy!
Amazing what you can fit in to over a minute's worth of film plot. Three guys play out an amusing act based on one of them winning the 2016 Powerball $1.5 billion which was eventually claimed by 3 winners. If you don't like fake blood, shooting of blanks (we hope!) and stabbings, look away now!
In a lawsuit filed in 2016, 75-year-old Mega Millions winner Etta May Urquhart claimed her son, Ronnie Lee Orender, swindled her of winnings that were rightfully hers and her husband's. The ticket Urquhart purchased in May 2011 for a $51 million jackpot was the largest lottery win ever in Kern County, according to the California Lottery. What happened in the 5 years of spending? Watch the story in this list of 10 unlucky lottery winners to find out more.
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