I won £83k People’s Postcode Lottery jackpot but refused to believe it… then I saw the camera crew

ONE pistillate who won £83,000 connected the People's Postcode Lottery refused to judge her luck until she saw the camera crew.

Lucky victor Michaela Jones says she's successful a once-in-a-lifetime travel to Australia for the British & Irish Lions Tour aft the jackpot.

Michaela scored the windfall with 10 neighbours successful Nantymoel, Wales, aft CF32 7SU won the lottery's play £1M Millionaire Street prize.

Every summons was worthy a whopping £83,333 with 1 victor doubling their prize to £166,666, acknowledgment to playing with 2 tickets.

The buzzing victor said: "It's felt similar a dream. I was waiting for the rug to beryllium pulled from underneath me, to beryllium honest.

"Until I saw the camera crew, I didn't judge it."

The mum-of-two is present readying a travel adjacent twelvemonth to spot the combined British Isles squad instrumentality connected the Wallabies.

Michaela, who makes parachutes for a living, has fibromyalgia and made the determination to chopped her hours to part-time precocious leaving the travel successful the balance.

She said: "Fibromyalgia affects my full assemblage and due to the fact that the parachutes are dense and I basal astir of the day, I chopped my hours back. Thankfully, my institution person been superb with me, I can't hold to archer them.

"We were readying connected going to Australia adjacent twelvemonth for the rugby, that mightiness beryllium backmost connected the cards."

Michaela and her groundworker hubby Rob are readying connected helping their 24-year girl with location renovations and volition each spell to a Liverpool FC match.

She'll besides apt beryllium shouting thing for her colleagues astatine the parachute factory.

"My enactment household astatine the mill volition beryllium implicit the moon. They've been checking connected the Postcode Lottery website each week to effort and suss retired however overmuch I mightiness win."

Another winner, Grant Williams, hopes to instrumentality his first-ever formation successful archetypal people aft winning his stock of the prize.

He said he's present dreaming of adventures overseas with his woman Katrina arsenic a result.

Born and bred successful Nantymoel, Grant has ne'er wandered excessively acold from his beloved home, but present he's acceptable to see the world.

He said: "I've ne'er been abroad, I've ne'er been connected a plane.

"I'm going to person to benignant that retired present and archetypal people is adjacent an enactment now."