Simon Cowell supports lottery game
October 4th, 2011 - 3:20 am ICT by IANSLondon, Oct 4 (IANS) Music mogul Simon Cowell is backing a lottery game called The Health Lottery which will raise funds for health projects across the country.
The game offers a top prize of $160,000 to entrants, while $80 million will go towards helping people across the Britain.
“I thought it was one of those great ideas that can make a real difference and to show my support I’ve bought 5,000 Health Lottery tickets.
“Raising 50 million pounds in the first year is going to help a huge amount of people and if my numbers come up I will put the money back into the charity,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted the 51-year-old as saying.
The first prize draw is set to take place Saturday.
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