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A Spanish TV reporter celebrated and quit her job live on the air after she realized she had a winning lottery ticket according to SF Gate. Last month Valencia community journalist Natalia Escudero was covering Spain’s annual Christmas lottery entitled El Gordo (The Fat One) when she discovered she too was a winner.

The government-run lottery is the world’s richest lottery, with boasting 2.24 billion euros (about $2.43 billion) in prizes, according to the Guardian. Approx. 15,000 people can have a winning ticket that pays in various amounts, according to travel website Barcelona Yellow.

Aquí la tienes: "la reportera de La 1" de la que habla todo el mundo a estas horas. ¡Se llama Natalia Escudero! #LoteríaRTVE 🔴 Directo ➡ https://t.co/pfgTOQpaaN pic.twitter.com/58j3ACuNte — TVE (@tve_tve) December 22, 2019

The winning number was 26590 and Escudero had one of those tickets with a prize worth 400,000 euros ($444,000) for each ticket. However, the prize money can be split multiple ways, and Escudero would later learn about the complexity of the distribution of the money.

“I’m not going in tomorrow,” she said. “Natalia doesn’t work tomorrow. Woo!”

Escudero’s fellow colleagues smiled and laughed at her excitement one of the anchors told viewers her wining was news to them. The crowd behind Escudero jumped and chanted with their lottery tickets in hand according to the newspaper.

“It’s true! It’s not ‘The Truman Show,'” Escudero exclaimed, referencing the 1998 movie starring Jim Carrey, in which his character discovers his life is actually a televised simulation.

Escudero said forty tickets had been sold at her reporting location with the winning number worth 16 million euros.

She repeated her lottery number and said she would never forget it. However, Escudero would later learn that her share of the jackpot was only 5,000 euros, or about $5,500. A Spanish lottery costs 200 euros, therefore, to make the game a bit easier to enter people can buy a decimo or a 10th of a full ticket for 20 euros. That’s what Escudero did therefore, her winning number was only worth 10th of a full ticket’s share of the prize.

Some members of the public and Spanish media have since accused the reporter of being unprofessional and lying to viewers about her earnings. Escudero has since tweeted an apology for anyone who felt deceived by her reaction to winning the lottery. Escudero was disheartened that she had appeared to undermine her 25 years of experience. As of now, it is unclear if Escudero is still an employee at RTVE.

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