We brought you the news a few months ago of a great online bingo competition that Gala Bingo were running at their online bingo site which would make one of their very lucky online bingo players a “Nectar Millionaire”! The news is now in that a school dinner lady, namely “Joan Scales” who comes from Dartmouth in Devon is now a Nectar Card Millionaire thanks to playing a game of online bingo at Gala Bingo online!

The lucky lady, who were are told by Gala Bingo is an avid bingo fan, was automatically entered into the free one million nectar prize draw each time she visited their online bingo site during the promotional period and purchased a bingo ticket. This is what led the lady to basically be able to shop till she drops on nectar points, one million pounds worth of them to be exact after winning this great Gala Bingo promotion.

Joan, who works as a dinner lady at her local Dartmouth Primary School, spoke to Gala Bingo about here nectar million points win and this is what the lady had to say in her own words, “It was actually my birthday when I got the call to say I’d won, and I really couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was just an unbelievable prize and the best birthday surprise ever! To have one million Nectar points is just amazing – we’ve already treated ourselves to some new clothes, video games for our daughter and we’re planning on using some of the points to re-decorate our house. To add to this, we’re hoping to book some flights for a family holiday to Spain – it’s just simply made our year!”

As the winner of one million Nectar points, Joan can basically shop to she drops on a whole range of fab Nectar treats, the possibilities are endless really! For example, Joan could have a case of wine delivered to her door every week for a year, or she could even treat herself and 19 of her friends to a first class trip on Euro star to Paris! Nectar points can be collected and used at lots of different high street and online retailers through Nectar.com and these include some of the biggest household retail names we know like Argos, Sainsbury's, Beefeater and Brewer’s Fayre establishments and Blockbuster stores, to name just a few, as there are a whole lot more Joan could choose from.

The “win one million nectar points” online bingo promotion was run by Gala Bingo online between 24th November and 24th December last year, with the lucky winner being announced just last week. Gala Bingo actually become sponsors of Nectar back in May 2008 and their online bingo players can collect those all important nectar points as they play bingo. Two nectar points are accumulated by players for every £1 spent purchasing bingo tickets at their online bingo site.