"Absolute chaos": All female gym buddies take down $80m Powerball lottery
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A group of 55 gym-goers are the lucky winners of a life-changing $80 million Powerball jackpot.
The women were part of a syndicate at their Curves gym in Beldon, northern Perth.
Sue, the owner of the gym, said they each chipped in $5 for the huge jackpot prize, and she spent all morning calling her clients to pass on happy news.
The lucky gym-goers will each pocket $1.5 million.
‘I have just had the greatest morning ringing people to tell them they have won $1.5 million,’ Sue told Triple M Perth’s breakfast program on Friday.
‘There’s still about 10 people I haven’t been able to get a hold of yet.’
Some of the winners were enjoying a Christmas dinner at an Italian restaurant when they learned of the win.
'A group of us ladies from my gym were out at our Christmas dinner and one of the husbands rang and said, 'Hey, I think you ladies just won the lotto' and we said, nah,' Sue recalled.
'So I got the ticket out and we checked the numbers and you should have seen the restaurant it went into absolute chaos… it turned to mayhem.'
The numbers from draw 1333 were 27, 30, 4, 5, 33, 26 and 19 and the all-important Powerball number was 8.
The division one ticket was purchased from Lotterywest.
One in four Aussies were estimated to have bought a ticket ahead of the jackpot.
A handful of clients at the Curves Beldon gym opted out of entering the draw, Sue said. But for the 55 women who have won, the money will be 'life-changing'.
Sue has no plans to quit or retire on the winnings, but said it is a weight off her shoulders after her husband was made redundant at his job recently.
'So, we were starting to get a little bit worried about what the future was holding for us so this has taken all that away now. We don't have to worry anymore, life's good,' she said.