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Jimmy Carr finds out what The National Lottery has done over the past 25 years

Usually he’s the one dealing out the gags, but watch what happens when we turn the tables on comedian Jimmy Carr.

An audience full of celebrities including football legend Rio Ferdinand, Olympian Sir Chris Hoy, actor Tamzin Outhwaite and reality-star Scarlett Moffatt put Jimmy back in his place when he asks, ‘what has The National Lottery ever done for us?’

And in case you’re wondering, thanks to you, The National Lottery raises around £30M every week for good causes all over the UK. That’s more than £40bn since launching 25 years ago and an average of 200 projects in every UK postcode area.

Cue mic drop.

19th November 2019

The National Lottery has been changing the lives of winners and supporting good causes across the UK since 1994. In that time, there have been more than 7,000 new millionaires created and by playing The National Lottery you raise over £4 million for Good Causes every dayΔ.

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