The so-called 'Lotto lout' who blew his £9.7m fortune says the British couple who recently won a record £56m on the Euromillions should leave the country.

 

Michael Carroll, 26, told Sky News Online that Nigel Page and partner Justine Laycock should be wary of "maggots and leeches that come out of the woodwork". He had a message for the pair: "Don't trust anyone. Flee England."

 

But, speaking at a news conference after their jackpot win, the lucky couple, who live near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, pledged to look after their friends and family.

 

Former dustman Mr Carroll is now on the dole after getting through his multi-million pound fortune in about eight years on drugs and a party lifestyle. He told Sky that if he could start again, he "wouldn't have hit the drugs so hard". He said: "It ripped my inside out", adding drugs "ruin people". But he also said winning the lottery was a "good laugh".

 

Self-styled 'King of Chavs' Mr Carroll also said he was pleased that the money was gone, saying "I'm happy and feel 100% better" as people treat him more genuinely now. His biographer Sean Boru told Sky: "Woman used to hit on him and try to get him to buy dresses and jewellery for them.

 

"Blokes were trying to hit him and he became a virtual prisoner. Now people don't give him a second look."

 

Meanwhile, Mr Carroll has also put his wrecked mansion up for sale and has made an internet video tour of the property to promote it:

 

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In the footage, the six-bedroom property, in Swaffham, Norfolk, is a shadow of its former self - with carpets and curtains removed, dark water in the pool, blood stains apparently on the walls and dog urine on the floor, it is claimed. Mr Carroll, who was aged 19 when he won the lottery in 2002, has not lived in the mansion for some time and left it derelict, only for squatters to move in.

 

He bought the property in 2002 for £325,000 but is asking £250,000 for it now.

 

He has spent around £360,000 on improvements, including an extension with a swimming pool, meaning he stands to make a loss of £435,000. However, there have already been three offers including one for £275,000 and Mr Carroll is hopeful of a bidding war.

 

With the money from the sale of the house, Mr Carroll, who currently lives with a friend in Spalding, Lincolnshire, is hoping to start his own business but he is not sure in what area yet. Mr Carroll could also return to his former job as a binman and wants to do more acting after starring in two films. The more I can get into the better," he said, adding he was looking at "decent parts".

 

http://news.sky.com

It's a pity he didn't do the same after his own win.:rolleyes:

A woman here won 114 million, and got some trouble from people she knew.

If I ever won such a lot of money, I would rather nobody knew about it at all. Otherwise, assuming I had enough, I'd have to move somewhere (possibly abroad) where nobody knew me.

aren't you already living "abroad"? :stunned:

aren't you already living "abroad"? :stunned:

 

Depends how you look at it.:rolleyes:

You're a legal alien!

I'd just move to the Isle of Man.

I'd just move to the Isle of Man.

 

Or Manitoba?:rolleyes: