Spanish TV reporter Natalia Escudero screamed into the cameras, saying "I am not coming to work tomorrow!" as her title was introduced as a winner
Spanish TV reporter Natalia Escudero screamed into the cameras, saying “I am not coming to work tomorrow!” as her title was introduced as a winner of the Spanish lottery, the largest lottery on the earth by way of whole prize cash supplied.
However the reporter’s celebrating was reportedly put to an end when it turned out she had truly been awarded simply €5,000 ($5,539) out of the lottery’s whole prize pot of €2.24 billion that it had doled out this 12 months.
Escudero, who works for nationwide broadcaster RTVE, later apologized on Twitter for her response, Sky News reported, Tuesday, saying she’d been going by a “tough” time for “private causes.”
Spain’s Christmas lottery would not award as massive particular person prizes as these within the U.S., however its whole quantity of prize cash given to ticket patrons makes it the wealthiest on the earth.
It is an annual custom for Spain, the place households and teams of associates band collectively to pool cash to purchase tickets.
The biggest sum awarded to a person this 12 months, often known as El Gordo — “The Fats One” — was value €400,000, a €four million whole high prize shared between ten ticket holders.