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Lotto winner dubbed 'UK's most eligible bachelor' at 23 back at work pushing barrow
The Mirror.It's just one of the expensive cars he has acquired since winning £10.9 million in 1996 – 18 months after the National Lottery was first launched.Karl was just 23 when he hit the jackpot but has shrewdly gone on to build a buy-to-let property empire, doubling his fortune to £22 million.After his life-changing win, Karl was dubbed Britain’s most eligible bachelor – but he went on to marry girlfriend Nicole Roach a decade later.The millionaire is now thought to have split from his wife, however, and moved out of the mansion he built in Fylde, Lancs.In a 2009 interview with the Sunday Mirror, Karl told how he had ploughed all of his winnings into property.He spent £1.5 million building his five-bedroom Gothic-style home in Fylde –