I won the lottery and whisked my family away on a last-minute holiday – people are surprised by the destination
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A LOTTO winner has defender her holiday destination after people cried "why are you not in the Maldives?".
Olivia Love, of Glasgow, scooped £10,000-a-month for a year alongside hubby Kevin last month.
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Lotto winner Olivia Love took her family on holiday to North Wales
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Olivia won £10,000-a-month for a year alongside hubby Kevin
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The 36-year-old's been able to quit her job at a local supermarket, and hire a cleaner and gardener.
Thanks to her massive tax-free win, she's also made the first steps in building her dream career as a wedding content creator.
Since going public with her win, Olivia has been speaking out about the life-changing cash in more detail on TikTok.
And she hilariously wiped away fake tears with £20 notes in response to cruel comments from trolls.
Recently, she documented her family's "first holiday as lottery winners" to North Wales with their four kids and Kevin's parents.
The down-to-earth brood hired a nine-seater car for the four-and-a-half hour journey and stopped off at a service station for a McDonald's to "fuel themselves up".
They hired a stunning four-bedroom 17th century farmhouse for the week and spent just £2,202.06 in total including car rental, food, and accommodation.
And Olivia has defended her decision to staycation in the UK instead of splashing the cash on a long-haul flight to an exotic destination.
While enjoying the sunshine in her Welsh garden, she said: "To everyone that said 'why aren't you going to like the Maldives? You've won the lottery'. It's like 32 degrees and I'm in North Wales. Who needs the Maldives when you have this?
"We're in a beautiful old farmhouse. It's just so stunning.
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"[I] just wanted to take a minute to just appreciate where the hell I am.
"It's just wild, it's just so beautiful and warm. I didn't need to leave the country for this."
Her holiday clips quickly racked up 11,000 views with social media users rushing to praise her holiday destination.
One said: "It's probably hotter there than Spain or Greece, enjoy it."
A second wrote: "Looks lovely! Hope you had amazing break."
Meanwhile, a third added: "We go North Wales every year!! So so so much to do."
We told earlier how a simple email from the National Lottery team at 12.33am on May 16 changed everything for Olivia.
Before this, the mum-of-four was earning just £800-a-month working in a supermarket's customer service kiosk.
She was on Universal Credits to subsidise her eye-watering £1,800-a-month childcare costs and "dreaded" her council tax bill coming through.
She said: "My husband and I claimed Universal Credit because we needed help with the cost of childcare.
"Now, obviously, because I've won £10,000 a month for a year, I'm no longer entitled to that which, you know, quite right."
Olivia and Kevin won the second-tier prize on The National Lottery's Set For Life on May 15 after matching five main numbers.
The winning numbers in the draw were: 03, 27, 42, 45, 46, plus Life Ball 06.
'Set For Life' offers a top prize of £10K a month for 30 years when the five main numbers and the Life Ball are matched.
Players can also win £10K a month for a whole year by matching the five main numbers.
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