{"id":76787,"date":"2025-03-12T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/?p=76787"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:16:44","slug":"central-coast-man-becomes-an-overnight-millionaire-after-1-million-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/home\/central-coast-man-becomes-an-overnight-millionaire-after-1-million-windfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Coast Man Becomes An Overnight Millionaire After $1 Million Windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations are in order for one Central Coast man who is now an instant millionaire after hitting the jackpot \u2013 literally!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wadalba local held one of two division one winner entries drawn on Monday, March 10, 2025 with each winner pocketing a cool $1 million each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lott broke the win to the Wadalba local, with the man completely oblivious to his win as he enjoyed breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGod! I need to get a bit of air now,\u201d he exclaimed to The Lott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is much, much needed for lots of things. I was about to have breakfast. This is a good awakening.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local revealed that he kept playing his late Father\u2019s lotto numbers for luck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy dad started playing lotteries back in the 1980s, but when he passed away I kept some of his numbers going.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI just kept playing them, just in his memory and added some new ones from the family. They were very special numbers and now they\u2019re even more special now,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working-class people so it will come in very handy and allow us to help ourselves and everyone around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you for the news! You\u2019ve just made my day!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man\u2019s entry was purchased at Wadalba Newsagency, with manager Tina Ford sharing that her outlet was celebrating their latest division one win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited for that customer to win this major prize. It\u2019s a life-changing prize and we wish them all the very best,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEveryone will also be so excited for them and hoping they\u2019re our next big winner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Listen via the Star 104.5 Player, download it now via the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/au\/app\/star-104-5-central-coast\/id1068731232\"><em>App Store<\/em><\/a><em> or <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=au.com.star1045\"><em>Google Play<\/em><\/a><em> and take Star 104.5 wherever you go.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Images:\u00a0The Lott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations are in order for one Central Coast man who is now an instant millionaire after hitting the jackpot \u2013 literally! The Wadalba local held one of two division one winner entries drawn on Monday, March 10, 2025 with each winner pocketing a cool $1 million each. The Lott broke the win to the Wadalba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":76973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,9229,9178],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-76787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-lifestyle","category-lifestyle-lifestyle","category-money"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v23.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Central Coast Man Becomes An Overnight Millionaire After $1 Million Windfall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Congratulations are in order for one Central Coast man who is now an instant millionaire after hitting the jackpot \u2013 literally.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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