A hard-up mother of two has admitted she is so money conscious that she had concerns about phoning the hotline to claim her £5.8 million lottery win.
Tracy Tyler, 37, said it was only when partner Adam Young offered to foot the bill for calling Camelot after scooping Saturday’s jackpot that she got in touch with the Lotto organiser.
Frugal Ms Tyler and her long-term partner, from Epping in Essex, have yet to spend a penny of their new £5,819,806 fortune.
The couple said they had concerns about paying the bills after 30-year-old Mr Young was made redundant from his warehouse job in May.
“The lottery was an 0845 number and I was a bit worried that would cost me money,” Ms Tyler said.
“But he (Mr Young) said he would pay for it so I said all right. I don’t like to waste money, I’m very cautious.”
