Brother of £61m lottery winner lifts lid on feud and says 'I don't want a penny'
EuroMillions winner Debbie Nuttall has been embroiled in a feud with her younger brother for more than 20 years.
Debbie toasted a £61million jackpot last week – but missing from the celebrations was estranged sibling Glen. The “once-close” pair haven’t spoken in decades following a big row.
And Glen, who brings up his autistic son, 10, while living on benefits in temporary accommodation, insists he’s not expecting a penny and doesn’t want anything from his newly loaded sister. Last night the dad of four told the Sunday Mirror he’s tried to patch up the bitter dispute in the past to no avail, and says Debbie even blanked him in the supermarket. And he revealed he only learned of Debbie’s life-changing windfall from a newspaper story.
Glen said: “My son messaged me and said, ‘Dad, I know you don’t want to know, but look at this’ and he sent me a snippet from the paper. I didn’t know anything about it. I said, ‘Is it a joke?’” The rift between the pair followed a furious bust-up when they were in their early thirties, Glen claimed.
Glen Noon says he doesn't expect any money from his sister (Reach Coomisioned)He said: “She has not really spoken to me since then. I might have said the odd word to her but I’ve seen her in Asda and she has blanked me. She has totally walked past my little boy and never said a word.”
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Glen, who is just a year younger than his sister, says they were close as kids and even shared a bedroom. After suffering mental health issues in his late teens, he says he moved in with Debbie and she looked after him. He claims he has tried to heal the broken relationship but says his efforts have been in vain.
Glen, 53, who also has two half-brothers, said of Debbie, 54: “Sometimes I think about it and it makes me sad. But then I think, ‘I’ve tried with you but you’ve made no effort whatsoever’.”
He said their parents, Susan, 73, and John, 75, split when he was six months old and he and Debbie went to live with their mum in Nelson, Lancs. Like any siblings they fought, but Glen remembers them getting on well. He said: “We were pretty close. I would like to think we were. She might have different memories of it.”
Richard and Debbie Nuttall celebrating their big win earlier this week (Reach Commissioned)In his early teens he moved back in with his dad and later went into care after becoming a “bit of a tearaway”. He said the siblings drifted apart after she separated from her first husband, his pal Paul Ridge, and met her second husband Richard.
And after harsh words were exchanged during their row, the brother and sister never spoke again. Debbie and Richard, 54, from Colne, Lancs, have vowed to share some of their windfall with close family and friends and upgrade from their £370,000 semi, with a second home in Portugal.
The couple, who have three daughters and two granddaughters, learned of their huge win – half a £132m jackpot – while on holiday in the Canaries celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary last month. Richard revealed they “went mental” in their rented VW Polo after phoning National Lottery officials.
He added: “It was the whole Del Boy and Rodney scene when they became millionaires outside Sotheby’s.” Glen, from Burnley, Lancs, says he has “next to nowt” and is waiting on a council house but will not ask his big sister for money, saying: “Hang out a begging bowl? Absolutely no way.”
And despite their feud he reckons he is delighted for Debbie, insisting: “I’ve no animosity towards her. Don’t get me wrong. I am happy that she has won this money. I was not jealous or anything like that. I might come across as bitter but I’m really not.”
Debbie and Richard, who will also support charity BK’s Heroes, set up in memory of Debbie’s cousin Ben King, who died aged 27, declined to comment. Debbie’s dad John said: “She has a brother but she does not see him.”
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