The UK’s youngest ever lottery winner has found a new partner after splitting with her boyfriend.
Callie Rogers, who won £1.8million when she was just 16 in 2003, has shared photos of herself with her new partner, 35-year-old gas engineer Todd Eilbeck.
One of the pictures was captioned ‘My ‘world’ my best friend’.
Todd also shared a photo of himself with Callie, who’s now 38 and lives in Workington, Cumbria
In October the Sun reported she was with engineer Lee Mathews but she later posted on social media she had been bringing up her fifth child as a single mum.
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On the youngster’s first birthday, she wrote she was ‘doing it alone’, adding: ‘Most would describe the first year as tiring and challenging, but for me it’s been the most magical, rewarding year of my life… ’
It is not clear who the father of the child is.
Callie was working as a shop assistant in her local Co-op for just £3.60 an hour when she hit the jackpot.
She reportedly spent the money on homes for herself and her family, plastic surgery, drugs, tattoos, clothes and travelling.
After nine years, it was all gone.
She said £500,000 was spent on friends and family, with some of it loans that weren’t repaid.
‘I would give money to distant relatives and friends of friends. I loaned £20,000 here, and £13,000 there. I would never get it back,’ she told The Mirror in 2019.
‘People asked for money for new cars and I would help out. It was a soft touch.
‘Now I realise what they were like. I was exploited because of my age. I had a lot of fake relationships.’
The same year she told Australia’s Today show that she did receive advice on how to invest the money: ‘There was quite a few different people who spoke to us but at that age but you don’t have any concept of that amount of money or what to do with it,” she said.
‘First thing I bought was houses for myself and some of my family, and cars, and just mainly gifts for other people.
‘I liked being able to help my family and doing stuff for people I cared about, but I wanted to just go back to work and live my normal life again.
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‘All of a sudden I couldn’t open my front door with photographers and stuff being there and, obviously, you have people begging for money, friends who weren’t friends before wanting to be your friends.’
Callie will probably keep her record as the UK’s youngest lottery winner as the minimum age that someone can play were lifted to 18 in 2021.
Last month, the family who scooped £216 million jackpot in the EuroMillions draw revealed how they would be spending their fortune.
The family from Cork, Ireland, won the largest EuroMillions prize in Ireland’s history, after buying a ticket from a small Centra store.
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