Denise and Paul Hardware
Paul Hardware had just found out he was going to be made redundant from his job as a chef when he discovered he had won nearly £5m.
The 51-year-old from Cardiff had been working opposite shifts to his wife Denise, a bakery supervisor, and the couple hardly saw each other.
“We’d been buying lottery tickets for 14 years and we’d won a couple of tenners, but that was it,” said Denise.
After discovering Paul was going to lose his job, the pair decided to add an extra line of lucky dip numbers to their ticket.