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EuroMillions Loser Hazel Loveday 'Says She's Had A Week From Hell'

Posted: 23/03/2012 11:52 Updated: 23/03/2012 11:52

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The mother who missed out a sharing a £38m EuroMillions jackpot win after leaving a bus drivers' syndicate said she would have given them £1m if the situation were reversed.

Speaking to The Sun newspaper, single mother Hazel Loveday, 26, revealed she had been in hospital when she found out her colleagues had won the jackpot - and were each entitled to a £3.1m share.

"They all know that I was in hospital because I was in work when I collapsed but they haven't sent a card or any flowers.

"I don't know why they haven't been in touch yet — they must be caught up with their win."

Loveday, who dropped out of the syndicate six months before they hit the jackpot, said it had been a "week from hell": "If I won I'd definitely give the lads at the depot a million or more.

"I'd have been in touch with them if it was the other way round. We were like one big happy family in work."

Tweeters, however, weren't so sympathetic


Paul Herbert
Hazel Loveday . They could at least have bait of a wip round for her.


G.cole
If you left a lottery syndicate 6 mths b4 a large win why are you expecting them to sort you out with a million? Hazel loveday.COME ON SON!


Amanda Lumley
driver who missed out on EuroMillions win speaks out in The Sun. Don't think she deserves anything now

Previously the drivers had commented on Loveday saying: “We all feel sorry for Hazel but what can you do? You’ve got to be in it to win it.”

On Wednesday the 12 winners in the syndicate of bus drivers celebrated their EuroMillions jackpot haul of £38m.

But the drivers declined to comment on Loveday, concluding that; "We all like Hazel, she's a good friend."

Chris Smith, who led the dozen-strong syndicate, said: "Times have been very tough for everyone - we were facing up to shifts being cut, which can really hit you in the pocket.

"This win means so much and is life-changing for everybody - people can live their dreams and help out their families."

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The group of twelve had been running their syndicate for almost three years, without yielding any major results.

Colleague Hazel Loveday had dropped out only six months before the jackpot win, missing out on a multi-million pound share.

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The truth is out there
42 Fans
10:50 PM on 03/24/2012
I hate the entire concept of the lottery. Its just another way the Tories are able to take money from the poor in society and funnel it into the hands of a few. These few no matter how Socialist they may have been, will find themselves beccoming devoted Tory Capitalists. I wont play it on principle !!.... Perhaps I have missed a chance by not doing so, but at least my hands are not stained with the dirt of a very sucsessfull Tory control system and method of extracting money from the poor. I dont Smoke and dont Drink, I have no loans and dont have any debts, despite being unemployed, I am solvent and happy without stress !.
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coracleman
14 Fans
07:19 PM on 03/24/2012
I don't think moaning is going to help her cause. The winners are under no obligation to give her anything and if she is aiming to get million, that's just a bit greedy. She dropped out, it's awful and she must be pig sick but that's life. If she gets anything I hope she remembers to be gracious and say thank you.
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john5368
18 Fans
05:37 PM on 03/24/2012
As I read this it seem to me that the lady think she should have some of the winnings but as they say you got to be in it to win it, now if it had been a week or two then you may feel she should get something from each of the winners. But after six mouths no way and how did the sun get the story in the frist place did she phone up because I cannot see how they would have got her name, £3.1 million is a lot but if you have a big famliy they will be there with they hands out and you could find your £3.1 go very quicly down to just £1 million the lady may not have won money but she wakes up each day that in its self is winning.
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peterg6
7 Fans
04:59 PM on 03/24/2012
How can she justify the comment she missed out as she was no longer contributing and had not apparently by reports done so for some time - deluded idiot
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wetcastltd
2 Fans
04:53 PM on 03/24/2012
i was in it so can i have a share ?, she must be mad for thinking it
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earlsspg
61 Fans
04:46 PM on 03/24/2012
Sad, but she was not in it, so could not win it.
She took a gamble by pulling out and lost.
Tough.
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Fozwords
Abandon hope when you post on here
192 Fans
06:48 PM on 03/24/2012
Look on ther bright side she saved 26 quid.
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vividrick
I came, I saw...I had a cup of tea!
492 Fans
04:13 PM on 03/24/2012
Seems hearltess I know...but a part of me says 'that's life'! They could buy her a holiday at least, no? Sounds as if they didn't like her much anyways. So much for generosity & spirit, I'd play down hopes for a Christmas card this year.
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kryten22
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02:42 PM on 03/24/2012
the lotto number for the 38 million was the same as mine a year ago do i get some Camelot do i or i will scream and stamp my feet its not my fault i thought i would never win on those numbers Do you think the bus men will give me half NO I DONT THINK SO EITHER
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SylviaHaik
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12:40 PM on 03/24/2012
Reading the comments, I am amazed that except for a handful, most of them are hostile to this hapless woman. Her first mistake was not being in the syndicate but she exacerbated it by going to that paragon of virtues, The Sun. I used to work with a bunch of guys in a food processing firm, who were in a syndicate. One of them had to leave because of ill health but he continued to pay his share. These guys returned him the money and assured him, he'd be in the syndicate and need not contribute. They never won anything, but I was really proud of them that day folr their humanity. Incidentally, all these guys were recent immigrants doing a job for minimum pay most Britishers do not want to do.
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Kraptonfactor
They're coming to take me away ha ha, hee hee, ho
199 Fans
12:03 PM on 03/24/2012
Everyone appears to believe what has been said in the newspapers. I don't know if this woman has appeared on tv to confirm her belief that she had a right to a share of the winnings but it's my bet (from personal experience with the press) that they have either made the story up for a sensational headline or they have distorted what she has said for the same reason.
The media don't care how they damage your life or reputation because they know you have to fight through the PCC to clear your name, and for someone like this woman that may have been more difficult to do than someone like myself, particularly as she has been ill. It would not have hurt to give her a few bob, especially as she had been ill. In fact, I would have given any friends they workded with a prezzie of a few bob. But that's just me.
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SylviaHaik
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12:00 PM on 03/24/2012
Of course when you are not in it you cannot win it but if as these twelve millionaires has said she was a good friend, it would be a drop in the ocean for each to contribute £10,000 each but £120,000 would mean such a lot to her. I wish all these drivers the best of luck but life is fickle, it could just as easily turn the other way. Go on, prove to her that chivalry has not gone away.
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Fozwords
Abandon hope when you post on here
192 Fans
06:50 PM on 03/24/2012
One doesnt have to be friends to be in a syndicate, it is merely a means of widening your winning options, I was in a syndicate and there were some people I did not like but I would have quite happily shared a few million with them
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Muddydalek
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11:47 AM on 03/24/2012
As Windsor Davies' character (BSM Williams) in 'It ain't half hot mum,' used to say. "O dear, how sad, never mind!"
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Ladymacre
41 Fans
11:43 AM on 03/24/2012
Hazel hon, had you not gone public with the whingeing and whining some of your former colleagues may have given you a few quid. Having snivelled to the world I can't say I blame them for cutting you.
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Ladymacre
41 Fans
11:35 AM on 03/24/2012
Six months prior to the win she left the syndicate - sad but they owe her nothing. If she'd jsut missed paying her contribution for that week because she was in hospital then I'd have to agree they should give her something but six months??? Come on. Get over it MS Loveday - it simply wasn't in the stars for you to be a millionnaire just yet, same as most of the rest of us. What you never had you can't miss, so make your dreams and get on with your life rather than wasting it on 'if only'.
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amanicon
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10:47 AM on 03/24/2012
She isnt doing herself any favours by making comments like if the shoe was on the other foot that she would give a percentage of her winnings to a previous member of the syndicate.its so easy to say that when you miss out.she chose to leave the syndicate six months before this win and that was her choice and certainly has no entitlement to get anything unless some or all of the drivers decide that she should as it was there stake money not hers that won this huge jackpot.i can understand how gutted she must feel but unless the syndicate of winners decide she should get something she is entitled to nothing and just has to live with the knowledge how she missed out big time.we play the lottery because we live in hope that maybe our numbers come up or we can get a good few quid at some point likely never but that age old saying must stand if your not in it you cant win it
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