{"id":887072,"date":"2026-09-10T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887072\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:04:13","slug":"lotto-news-gold-coast-mans-8-million-lotto-birthday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/887072\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotto news: Gold Coast man\u2019s $8 million lotto birthday gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Gold Coast<\/a> dad woke up on his birthday unaware he\u2019d soon be unwrapping an $8 million gift.<\/p>\n

The Main Beach man was the only division one winner in Tuesday\u2019s Oz Lotto<\/a> draw, securing the full $8 million prize.<\/p>\n

\"Australia<\/p>\n

A man won $8 million in a lotto draw on his birthday.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

At work the next day, he went unaware of his win for hours until officials could contact him on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my god! $8 million! I\u2019ve won $8 million?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s my birthday today! How absolutely amazing. This is mind-boggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

He joked that he needed a cold drink and said he was eager to tell his wife.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Saturday, I take my wife out to dinner for a date-night, and I\u2019m always saying, \u2018Oh, they bloody didn\u2019t ring us again!\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to wait until I finish work to tell her the great news. I don\u2019t want to do it over a phone call.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll have to stop into the bottle-o and buy a bottle of champagne. I\u2019m sure she will say to me, \u2018Why do you have tears in your eyes? Are you okay?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The man said the multi-million-dollar win would be a huge help to him and his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a tough time for my family and I. I\u2019ve had some troubles with my health, so this has come at a good time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There are many different ways to get help and information about gambling. You can visit the National Gambling Helpline or call on 1800 858 858.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Gold Coast dad woke up on his birthday unaware he\u2019d soon be unwrapping an $8 million gift.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-887072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}