the story of viv , the equivalent of around £ 3 million today , she announced that her life from now on would emphatically be neither sensible nor boring .
when viv , a cake-factory worker from castleford in yorkshire , and her coal miner husband keith won £ 152,319 , 18 shillings and 8d on the littlewoods pools in 1961 .
the petite 25-year-old blonde charmed the world with an unapologetic joie de vivre , declaring that the money would indeed change her life .