{"id":195567,"date":"2025-12-17T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:23:08","slug":"couple-win-second-1m-lottery-beating-24-trillion-to-one-odds-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195567\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple win second \u00a31m lottery \u2013 beating 24-trillion-to-one odds | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple are celebrating a second \u00a31m National Lottery win after they beat 24-trillion-to-one odds of them winning both the EuroMillions Millionaire Maker and then five numbers and the bonus ball on the Lotto.<\/p>\n

Richard Davies, 49, and Faye Stevenson-Davies, 43, celebrated their first \u00a31m win in June 2018. The couple credit the power of positive thinking for their win.<\/p>\n

Ms Stevenson-Davies said: “We always believed winning was possible, and once we scooped \u00a31m and met hundreds of other lucky winners, we realised fairy tales do come true and there are winners everywhere!<\/p>\n

“We knew the odds of it happening again were outrageous, but we’re proof that if you believe, anything is possible.”<\/p>\n

While rare, double wins have happened<\/a> before.<\/p>\n

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Neither partner fancies early retirement<\/p>\n

Before their first win, Mr Davies worked as a hairdresser and Ms Stevenson-Davies worked as a mental health nurse.<\/p>\n

Ms Stevenson-Davies used the 2018 win to return to university, gaining a second degree in counselling and therapeutic practice, while her other half hung up his scissors.<\/p>\n

Since then, Mr Davies has started working seven days a week as a parcel courier after originally helping a friend out by doing the work just a couple days per week.<\/p>\n

Ms Stevenson-Davies is utilising her new degree and now has her own practice and also provides counselling services for local organisations including Brecon & District Mind charity and The DPJ Foundation.<\/p>\n

Mr Davies said: “Everyone keeps asking what we’ll do in the future, and we genuinely have no idea at present.<\/p>\n

“The first time around we gifted people cars, we donated a minibus to the local rugby team, and did our best to help friends and family, it was all new and it was amazing to be able to make a difference.<\/p>\n

“This time, who knows, we’ll take our time and enjoy the moment.”<\/p>\n

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\n Deja vu as the couple celebrate with some fizz. Pics: Allwyn<\/p>\n

How the couple managed it<\/p>\n

Mr Davies said: “This win was not as simple as buying the winning ticket, it came to us through a series of four consecutive Lotto draws!”<\/p>\n

Richard explained how “when you match two numbers in the Lotto draw, you automatically win a Lucky Dip for the next game and that’s what’s happened to us.<\/p>\n

“We matched two numbers and won a free Lucky Dip from the draw on the 15 [November], which put us into the next draw and so on, until the winning draw on Wednesday 26 November.”<\/p>\n

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\n Pic: Allwyn<\/p>\n

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While another win was always a real possibility for the positive pair, they had other motivations for playing too.<\/p>\n

Ms Stevenson-Davies said: “We’ve also seen first-hand, through our volunteering at projects that have received vital National Lottery funding, the impact players make.”<\/p>\n

While the couple could easily swap Mid-Wales for Mauritius this Christmas, the community-minded pair have other plans.<\/p>\n

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Mr Davies will continue to work seven days a week so that everyone gets their Christmas deliveries, while Ms Stevenson-Davies is offering mental health support to her clients across the festive period, including Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Andy Carter, senior winner’s adviser at Allwyn, the operator of The National Lottery, said: “With a \u00a315m Must Be Won Christmas Eve Lotto Draw, there is guaranteed to be more big winners, so if ever there was a time to believe in festive magic, now’s the time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple are celebrating a second \u00a31m National Lottery win after they beat 24-trillion-to-one odds of them winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-195567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}