:00:13. > :00:17.It's 17th December. It's Saturday night. And it's your host, OJ Borg.
:00:17. > :00:20.Cheers, big Al. Good evening everyone and welcome to Lottery HQ.
:00:20. > :00:23.Coming up tonight we've got the Thunderball and Lotto draws. Plus
:00:23. > :00:26.we'll be showing you what happened when we put some of our biggest
:00:26. > :00:34.jackpot winners on a bus and sent them off round the country.
:00:34. > :00:37.Millionaires on a bus? I know, Alan. But it was all in the name of a
:00:37. > :00:40.good cause, to bring some Christmas joy to some very deserving children.
:00:40. > :00:43.But before that, I've got some festive cheer of my own to bestow
:00:43. > :00:46.on you all. Next Friday sees Millionaires Month reach its
:00:46. > :00:50.crescendo when 25 millionaires are being made all in one night to
:00:50. > :00:52.bring the total for the month up to 50. Incredible! Indeed it is, Alan.
:00:52. > :00:55.Every Tuesday and Friday, EuroMillions Millionaire Raffle
:00:55. > :00:57.creates two millionaires in the UK. But if you play EuroMillions next
:00:57. > :01:00.Friday, you'll be automatically entered into the UK Millionaire
:01:00. > :01:03.Raffle where 25 millionaires will be created. So make sure you join
:01:03. > :01:07.myself, Myleene and The Overtones to find out if Christmas is coming
:01:07. > :01:17.early for you. What about me? Sorry, and Allen. But right now it's time
:01:17. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:28.to make some weekend winners with We could not do it without you. It
:01:28. > :01:36.so witty you right now. Release those weekend balls please, Julie.
:01:36. > :01:43.Independent adjudicator Avni Mashru. And Draw Master Julie Morrissey.
:01:43. > :01:46.Excalibur was selected for us. Set of balls number one. On Friday,
:01:46. > :01:54.over 25,000 lucky tickets won a prize. Well done if one of those
:01:54. > :01:58.lucky winners was you. Julie, I would like you to have rate my
:01:59. > :02:08.performance so far. Seven! Julie, are we ready to start Thunderball?
:02:09. > :02:09.
:02:09. > :02:49.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds
:02:49. > :02:53.Yes, we are. Good luck! Release the Please will release the 14 Thunder
:02:53. > :02:56.balls. Matched with the first five numbers drawn? Then you have just
:02:56. > :02:59.won �5,000, which I imagine will come in pretty handy for that last-
:02:59. > :03:02.minute Christmas shop. Think of the Christmas puddings you could buy!
:03:02. > :03:07.However, if you match with the Thunderball as well, then that
:03:07. > :03:13.�5,000 will turn in to �500,000. And then you could buy all the
:03:13. > :03:22.Christmas puddings in the UK. And you could buy me and Alan a lovely
:03:22. > :03:32.present. Just a suggestion! So good luck. Here are tonight's
:03:32. > :03:35.
:03:35. > :03:38.Thunderball numbers again in Thank you. Over the years, the
:03:38. > :03:40.National Lottery has created over 2700 millionaires. With Christmas
:03:40. > :03:43.just around the corner, some of those lucky jackpot winners fancied
:03:43. > :03:47.giving a little something back by bringing some Christmas cheer to
:03:47. > :03:53.childrens' hospices up and down the UK. We caught up with them in
:03:53. > :03:57.Liverpool. This Christmas some of the biggest
:03:57. > :04:01.National Lottery jackpot winners joined forces for the week-long
:04:01. > :04:07.winter Wonderland tour of hospices across Britain. To deliver presents
:04:07. > :04:10.too poorly children. We caught up with the tour at Clare House
:04:10. > :04:15.Children's Hospital in Merseyside which provides care to children
:04:15. > :04:20.with life-threatening conditions. People think it must be a sad place,
:04:20. > :04:27.but actually, it's positive. A vibrant place, full of life and we
:04:27. > :04:31.see far more populous than sadness. I think any of family which has a
:04:31. > :04:34.disabled child living with them, it's really difficult to try to
:04:34. > :04:39.understand how complex their lives are and if there was not someone
:04:39. > :04:44.like this, they often say they don't know what they would do.
:04:44. > :04:47.daughter sadly passed away. It needs to be here for children who
:04:48. > :04:52.have conditions and stuff. I am eternally grateful for them and
:04:52. > :04:56.what they did for my daughter and my family, eternally grateful.
:04:56. > :04:59.last year with a Lottery to donate various gifts and presence for the
:04:59. > :05:05.children and the parents. I literally live at not more than a
:05:05. > :05:12.mile away from here. They care for so many children under a fantastic
:05:12. > :05:17.job. They need all the help they can get. All the people here have
:05:17. > :05:27.come from the National Lottery, and they had been very, very lucky
:05:27. > :05:30.
:05:30. > :05:33.indeed. If you can, it's good to These people have won the Lottery,
:05:33. > :05:38.they can go home spend their money on themselves and their families
:05:38. > :05:42.and friends, but, at Christmas time, they have come here laden with
:05:42. > :05:52.gifts for the hospice. The children have loved it and the staff of love
:05:52. > :05:54.
:05:54. > :06:04.What a fantastic place and a great thing to do before Christmas. Right
:06:04. > :06:06.
:06:06. > :06:16.it's time now for our final draw of Alan, can we have tonight's jackpot,
:06:16. > :06:20.please? Tonight's estimated jackpot is �4.1 million. Another huge mound
:06:20. > :06:28.of money just waiting to be won and of course spent. So Alan, take it
:06:28. > :06:32.away. Release those big money balls! We are using Merlin and a
:06:32. > :06:35.set of balls number five. There were over 349,000 winners on
:06:35. > :06:38.Wednesday night with one very lucky ticket hitting the jackpot to scoop
:06:38. > :06:48.over �1.9 million. Congratulations if one of those lucky winners was
:06:48. > :06:48.
:06:48. > :07:48.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 40 seconds
:07:48. > :07:52.Well that's all from us tonight. Don't forget to join myself and
:07:52. > :07:55.Myleene at 11.35pm on Friday to find out if you are going to be one
:07:55. > :07:58.of 25 millionaires to be made on the last day of Millionaires Month
:07:58. > :08:01.here at Lottery HQ. There's also going to be a very festive
:08:01. > :08:04.performance from the fantastic Overtones. So, all in all, a night