I'm feeling lucky, said mum hours before her family scoops Â£61m lottery jackpot

Members of the family who scooped a Â£61.1 million EuroMillions jackpot celebrate their win at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, south-east Wales.

A FAMILY who scooped a Â£61.1 million EuroMillions jackpot only bought the ticket after their mother rang from her holiday in Florida to say she was feeling lucky.

The five-strong syndicate made up of Stephanie Davies, 23, her boyfriend Steve Powell, 30, her sister Courtney, 19, their mum Sonia, 53, and Sonia’s partner Keith Reynolds, 55, from Monmouth, hit the jackpot on Friday, July 29.

Stephanie only purchased the six Lucky Dip tickets after receiving a call from her mother late on Friday evening.

Mrs Davies pleaded with her daughter to buy the tickets as she was feeling lucky.

“I thought mum was mad calling me from holiday but they were so insistent I knew we had to do it,” she said today as they celebrated their £61,102,442.90 win.

Mrs Davies was celebrating after successful keyhole surgery in the US to remove a tumour on her parathyroid gland.

Miss Davies bought the tickets from the Overmonow Garage in Monmouth and was stunned when she checked the numbers in the early hours of Sunday morning.

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