A pub worker who landed \u00a34m on a lottery scratchcard went straight back to finish his shift in the kitchen and kept quiet about it.<\/p>\n
Amadou Gillen, 46, bought two scratchcards during a break from work in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.<\/p>\n
On the first card – scratched in the staff area – he won \u00a310 and the second made him a millionaire.<\/p>\n
The father-of-two, who works for Wetherspoon in the town, said he was “screaming and dancing inside”.<\/p>\n
“I think my shift finished at 11.30pm or midnight, so it was almost four hours that I kept it quiet,” he added.<\/p>\n
‘Never bought a car’<\/strong><\/p>\n It was not until the following week that the kitchen manager told his daughters, aged 20 and 22.<\/p>\n Speaking during a National Lottery news conference, he said he had booked a trip to the Gambia – where he was born – to visit family and was looking to change his rented one-bedroom flat for a four-bedroom house.<\/p>\n He received the money on Tuesday and is now planning to complete his driving test and buy his first car.<\/p>\n “I have never started lessons. I have had my provisional driving licence since 2009 but I have never been able to afford to have a car or lessons,” he said.<\/p>\n “At the moment I just want to get a simple Peugeot and then I will get a BMW X6. I want to start an intensive course by next week.”<\/p>\n Mr Gillen has worked at the pub for five years following an apprenticeship with McDonald’s.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pub worker who landed \u00a34m on a lottery scratchcard went straight back to finish his shift in the kitchen and kept quiet about it. Amadou Gillen, 46, bought two scratchcards during a break from work in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. On the first card – scratched in the staff area – he won \u00a310 and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":219333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}